Hayward, CA, United States (AHN) – The search for a nursing student who went missing last week in California continued on Tuesday.

Michelle Le, 26, was at Kaiser Medical Center in Hayward on Friday when she went out to the parking garage and did not return. She left the hospital during a break in class, at about 7 p.m.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Le was planning a trip to Reno during the Memorial weekend. Her abandoned car was found a few blocks from the hospital.

Police told KGO television that there are no signs of foul play.

Le is enrolled in her final year at Samuel Merritt University in San Mateo. Her disappearance remains a missing persons case.

The university said it was “deeply concerned” about Le and that it was in regular contact with police and the student’s family. “We continue to hope for the best in this difficult situation,” it added.

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Honolulu, HI, United States (AHN) – A shooting at a Hawaii middle school on Monday ended with one student injured.

According to KITV, a 14-year-old was showing a gun to his friends at Highlands Intermediate School when one student brushed the weapon away with his hand, causing the gun to go off.

The bullet went through a student’s jacket, ricocheted off a wall and grazed another student’s hand and leg. Only one student was injured, and the teen who brought the weapon was taken into police custody.

The gun, a .45 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol, was registered to a man who had lost it in December but did not report it stolen or missing until Monday, KHON reported.

Classes at Highlands Intermediate School, located in Pearl City, continued as normal after the accident, prompting concerns from some parents about how school officials handled the emergency.

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San Marcos, TX, United States (AHN) – A Texas State University student died Tuesday after jumping out a window with two other students, one of whom remains in a hospital.

According to the Austin American Statesman, sophomore Eirin Ann Hicks died from head injuries at the Brackenridge University Medical Center. The 24-year-old is believed to have jumped from a first-floor window of a dormitory hours before her death, along with a female and a male student.

The female student, a freshman, remains in the hospital. The male student was not injured.

Authorities are investigating the reason the students jumped out the window.

KXAN television reported that Hicks was a resident assistant at the dorm, Laurel Hall, and that there was a gathering inside the room from which she jumped.

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Pro-government student activists and supporters traded bullets Tuesday morning for supremacy over a student’s dorm in a campus in Dhaka, leaving 70 hurt.

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A Chinese student of a Toronto, Canada university was murdered in her dorm room while she was chatting with her boyfriend in Beijing, China.

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Rochester, NY, United States (AHN) – Authorities are expected to confirm on Monday whether remains found in New York are those of a missing Rochester Institute of Technology student.

New York State Police were due to hold a press conference just before noon about the discovery of human remains Sunday night in the town of Cohocton in Steuben County. The body may be that of George Delany, a 21-year-old student who has been missing for more than a month.

The Leader reported that two hikers found the body in a wooded area. The Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office is performing an autopsy.

According to state police, Delany was last seen on the evening of March 12 walking away from his car in Wayland, another town in Steuben County. His car was found near the area the next day.

Delany was a junior political science major from Maryland. He lived off-campus with fellow students, who have held rallies and canvassing events since he disappeared.

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The family of Danroy “D.J.” Henry, a Pace University student who died last year, is up in arms over the decision of a police union to honor with an award the officer responsible for the fatal shooting.

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New Haven, MA, United States (AHN) – Yale University announced on Wednesday that a student who was to graduate next month died following an accident in a laboratory.

Michele Dufault died after an accident invovling a piece of equipment in the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, according to a message to the campus community from Vice President Linda Koch Lorimer.

The incident occurred Tuesday night. The parents of Dufault, an astronomy and physics major, have been informed and were on the way to the university.

No details of the accident were released but the campus paper cited an official confirming that Dufault died after her hair was caught in the equipment.

The laboratory was closed for the day and classes were cancelled.

Dufault was a member of the university’s Precision Marching Band and served as co-president of the university’s organization for physics students. Last year, she was one of about a dozen members of the Yale Drop Team, a group of students who build and conduct experiments aboard NASA’s specialized Boeing 727 under a competitive federal program.

“Michele was an exceptional young woman, an outstanding student and young scientist, a dear friend and a vibrant member of this community,” Lorimer said. “We will find ways in the next day to gather to celebrate her life and grieve this loss.”

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Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – The British government announced a stern visa regime on Wednesday that is likely to axe more overseas students who aspire to study in the country.

In a statement from the British embassy in Kathmandu, British Home Minister Theresa May said the major overhaul of the student visa system was based on results of an extensive consultation process. Students will now have to pass through tougher rules for UK education institutions wanting to be sponsors.

Those coming to study at degree level will have to speak a higher level of English than before. Likewise, only students at universities and publicly-funded colleges will retain the right to work and only government-sponsored students, and certain postgraduate students, will be able to bring their dependents to the UK.

“There will be a limit on the overall time that can be spent on a student visa in the UK,” the statement reads. Graduates can still work, but will now have to secure a skilled job with a Tier 2 sponsor.

“International students not only make a vital contribution to the UK economy but they also help make our education system one of the best in the world,” May said in making the announcement. “But it has become very apparent that the old student visa regime failed to control immigration and failed to protect legitimate students from poor-quality colleges.”

She further added that the aim is not to stop genuine students but to eliminate abuse.

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New Haven, CT, United States (AHN) – Raymond Clark, the suspect in the 2009 murder of a Yale University graduate student days before her wedding, is planning to plead guilty in a case that has attracted national attention.

The New Haven Independent, citing a public defender, said the former university lab technician will change his plea during a hearing on Thursday.

Another attorney for Clark told the Yale Daily News the admission would mean there would be no trial and a probable lighter sentence.

Le, a San Jose native studying for a doctorate in pharmacology, was last seen on campus surveillance video on Sept. 8, 2009, entering the university’s Animal Research Center. Her body was found in a wall behind a toilet in the basement of the lab five days later, on her scheduled wedding day.

Clark, 26, was arrested and charged with murder less than a week after the body was found. A technician for five years at the same lab, he had pleaded not guilty and is being held on $3 million bond.

Authorities say the 24-year-old Le died of strangulation. They found several items in the lab that led them to arrest Clark, who had nothing in his employment history at the campus that “gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible,” University President Richard Levin had said in message to the Yale community after the tragedy.

Blood stains on a white sock found inside a drop ceiling located in a secure area of the lab contained both Clark and Le’s DNA, according to a police affidavit. The single sock matched the sock found in the crevice where Le’s body’s was stuffed.

In addition, investigators have as evidence a pair of Vikings work boots with blood-like stains and “Ray-C” written on them, as well as a green pen found under Le’s body. The pen, which contains DNA from both Clark and the victim, is believed to be the same one Clark had used to sign into task sheets, using the initials “RC,” in different rooms of the building.

Key card records also showed Clark as the first person to enter the room where Le last used her own swipe card. The technician had a highly unusual pattern of movements on the day of the alleged murder, and was the only person to enter another room where authorities later found blood stains and beads from a piece of jewelry that matched a bead found on Le’s body.

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