A tornado blazed a 10-mile-long path of destruction through the University of Maryland Tuesday, killing two sisters and injuring at least 50 other people. Classes were canceled Tuesday as workers, fire crews and students spent the day picking through damaged buildings and the remains of cars tossed about university parking lots. The sisters, a senior studying environmental policy and a sophomore studying sociology, died when their car was carried 200 to 300 yards by the tornado, passing over or between dorm buildings before coming to rest in trees near a parking lot. ...
Michigan Secretary of State Candice S. Miller announced Monday a plan to create special patriotic license plates to raise funds for the American Red Cross disaster relief activities....
The possibility of Americans becoming targets of biological or chemical attacks has loomed larger in the public mind since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ...
Michigan would be able to join a national system for collecting state sales taxes on Internet purchases under a bill approved Tuesday by a state House committee. ...
