An ex-convict has been sentenced to life in prison for the sadistic, 19-hour rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student.Robert Williams was convicted last month in Manhattan of attempted murder, rape, kidnapping and arson.The victim had...

An ex-convict has been found guilty of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student over 19 nightmarish hours.Robert Williams was pronounced guilty in a Manhattan courtroom of 44 of 46 counts.The verdict followed a gruesome trial that...

A Columbia University graduate student who was raped and tortured during 19 hours of nightmarish sadism pointed out Monday the man on trial for the attack as the one who drove her to ask for death and try to kill herself.Her gaze steady and her jaw...

A Columbia University graduate student who was raped, beaten, burned last year says she thought she would die after her 19-hour nightmare began.The 24-year-old woman testified Friday that she initially resisted when her attacker forced his way into her...

An ex-convict went on trial Thursday on charges of raping, torturing and burning a Columbia University graduate student in a 19-hour attack during which her eyelids were slit and she was forced to take so many painkillers that her liver failed.Robert...

Seventeen of the nation’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.The report, issued by America’s...

A 50-year gap in his higher education didn’t stop Clarence Garrett.After returning to college in spring of 2006 as a full-time student, Garrett completed course work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was awarded his bachelor’s degree at...

If Congress doesn’t get the job done, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she’ll consider using her authority to require states to report high school graduation rates in a more uniform and accurate way.”I think we need some truth in...

An ex-convict accused of raping, torturing and burning a Columbia University graduate student is mentally fit to stand trial, a judge said Wednesday.State Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman declared Robert Williams fit after his lawyer said the...