North Carolina state elections officials Tuesday defended their investigation of the 9th District election fraud, even though Republicans questioned why they didn’t do more to stop it. They spoke at Davidson College.

The ballot-rigging investigation that voided a congressional election and forced one of the country’s few do-over races simply followed the money, top North Carolina elections officials said Tuesday.

Gregg Nigl almost didn't fill out his March Madness bracket on NCAA.com's "Bracket Challenge."Now, he's made history.Nigl, 40 of the Northeast Side, has a perfect bracket through 48 games of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, the most games in a row that anyone has ever correctly predicted in NCAA.com's tournament challenge.He learned about his perfect bracket Monday night, when NCAA.com reporter Daniel Wilco tracked him down."We couldn't believe it. My wife (Casandra) was sitting

At least one of the students whose parents stand accused of fraud doesn’t appear to have been very interested in higher education in the first place.

Two parents allegedly involved in the college-admissions scheme were indicted on a new charge of money-laundering, and other parents are likely to face additional charges as well.

The exchange came during a hearing in which the education secretary was defending her department's budget proposal.

Bennett College, to keep its accreditation and access to federal aid, follows a playbook used by other small religious colleges.

Tufts University is being targeted by a digital activist group protesting the role of pharmaceutical firms in the U.S.’s opioid epidemic and the firms' support of educational and cultural institutions. Tufts was named the first recipient of the so-called Virtual Spoon Drop, an online campaign named after an artist’s 800-pound opioid spoon sculpture that has been displayed at the headquarters of two pharmaceutical companies.

A study finds that the institutions, trying to offset drops in state support, are using out-of-state recruiting practices biased against low-income and minority students in their own states.