Jack Hildebrand emerged Friday as the 2004-05 student body president, defeating Will McAdams in the runoff elections.Hilbebrand, a senior business administration major, said he was appreciative of the support he received in the voter turnout, as well as from those on his campaign team.

Mandy Lacombe won a diversity award without intending to be diverse."I didn't set out to do something in particular," she said. "I didn't make a formal presentation and force (people) to be diverse."  Lacombe, a sophomore general studies major, said she has been a quadriplegic since breaking her neck in a car accident when she was in her mid-20s.

CRAWFORD, Texas - For two years, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice left Americans with the impression that President George W. Bush's pre-Sept. 11 terrorism briefing focused on historical information dating to 1998 and that any current threats mostly involved overseas targets.

The Lowry Mays Business School's MBA program was ranked as the 23rd best graduate business program in the nation in the April 12 edition of U.S. News and World Report, after ranking No. 51 last year. The business school tied for the 23rd spot with the University of Illinois, Indiana University and the University of Texas.

FALLUJAH, Iraq - A fragile cease-fire held between Sunni insurgents and U.S. Marines on Sunday in the besieged city of Fallujah, where Iraqis said more than 600 civilians were killed in the past week. Near Baghdad, gunmen shot down a U.S. attack helicopter, killing two crewmembers.

OSINNIKI, Russia - The coal-blackened faces of exhausted rescuers and the red-rimmed eyes of anxious relatives told a grim story of disappearing hope Sunday, a day after a methane blast tore through a Siberian mine, killing at least 42 miners.

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service audited fewer corporations, small businesses and partnerships last year but more individual taxpayers, according to a study of government data.

RENO, Nev. - The Forest Service has been accused of misrepresenting forest conditions by using misleading photographs in a brochure that urges more logging to prevent wildfires in the Sierra N Nevada. The pamphlet, created by a public relations firm, explains that fire risks have risen as the Sierra's forests have grown more dense the past century.

HUMACAO, Puerto Rico - When Delia Mestre was a young woman, a hospital social worker would visit families throughout her barrio, offering the women something that seemed too good to be true: A tiny tablet to keep them from getting pregnant. "We all jumped on it quickly and didn't look back," Mestre, 60, recalled.

Amina Horozic, 21, a senior studying transportation design at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, nervously waits for Dave Lyon, General Motors' executive director of design, to give some sign whether or not he likes her car sketches that cover the wall.

NUEVO PROGRESO, Mexico (AP) - Firefighters and laborers cleared away a tangled mass of steel and concrete on Sunday, the day after a gas explosion leveled two buildings, killed six people and injured more than a dozen others in this Mexican border town. With about 30 percent of the rubble cleared away, Mexican authorities did not rule out finding more people in the rubble.