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Wheat gluten from China has been suspected in the outbreak since the first of multiple recalls was announced in mid-March. Even more pet food could be recalled in the next few days, though there probably has been no contamination of human food, FDA officials said yesterday.
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- The makers of the GRE graduate school entrance exam have scrapped an extensive makeover of the test, citing concerns that they would not be able to accommodate enough students at test centers.
Educational Testing Service, which designs the exam, had already delayed planned revisions by a year. ETS had hoped to switch to a more secure, Internet-based system that would eventually expand the number of sites where the test could be taken.
But ETS and the Graduate Record Examination Board said yesterday that they did not have the capacity to make the planned switch this fall and would stick with the old test and the centers where it is already being administered. The GRE is taken by as many as 600,000 applicants to graduate programs annually.
? BUFFALO -- Rape convictions that put Anthony Capozzi in prison for 22 years were erased because of recently found DNA evidence that tied the crimes to another man. A prosecutor last week declared Capozzi, 50, exonerated. He is expected to be freed from prison this week.
? SEATTLE -- A man and a woman were shot to death in the University of Washington's architecture building in an apparent murder-suicide, university police said. The female victim, a 26-year-old university employee, had a restraining order against the man, in his 40s, who "almost certainly" shot her and took his own life, a police spokesman said.
? CHICAGO -- Chicago's police superintendent announced he was retiring early as his department tries to deal with two highly publicized videotaped beatings involving off-duty police officers. Superintendent Philip J. Cline, who took over as superintendent in November 2003 and had been expected to retire later this year, said he will stay on until a replacement is found.
? ORLANDO -- Three Walt Disney Co. employees were among 28 men charged with soliciting sex from a minor amid a week-long sting operation in the Orlando area, authorities said. The suspects, ranging in age from college students to men in their 40s and 50s, had chatted online with people they believed to be boys and girls, ages 13 and 14, a Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman said.
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