Rock star to replace actor for UCLA graduation speech

Jun. 9, 2009

Actor James Franco, who had become the target of an Internet protest, bows out at the last moment. Brad Delson, lead guitarist for Linkin Park, will step in. Hollywood actor alumnus out. Rock musician alumnus in.

Bradbury not well enough to go to ceremony

CHICAGO, April 27 (UPI) -- Famed novelist Ray Bradbury is unable to attend Columbia College's graduation ceremony in Chicago as planned due to health concerns, the college said.

Death threat mars school graduation plans

PHILADELPHIA, June 7 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia-area teenager is in a dilemma over whether to deliver his class president graduation speech in person or by video because of gang death threats.

Graduation speech plagiarized

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C., June 3 (UPI) -- The Titanic angle in his graduation speech may have left a North Carolina school official with more than a sinking feeling for the speech was plagiarized.

Censorship of Calif. grad's speech upheld

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed over the removal of religious "proselytizing" from a student's graduation speech. California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed including calls to follow Christian teachings am

Wash. gov.: Stress '3 Rs' for graduation

OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 17 (UPI) --

Many underestimate white dashed lines

Sex tape spliced into graduation video

Witness: Face-eating man was growling

'Darth Vader' robs Ohio bank

Boy finds dead uncle's pic in sale camera

Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler

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