Sarah Palin jumps into 2016 race, endorses Donald Trump

Sarah Palin jumps into 2016 race, endorses Donald Trump

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump is brandishing the endorsement of conservative Republican firebrand Sarah Palin in the increasingly intense 2016 GOP presidential sweepstakes, giving the billionaire businessman a boost against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz less than two weeks before Iowa's kick-off caucuses.

Media heads are spinning," the former vice presidential candidate said after taking the stage at a Trump rally Tuesday at Iowa State University. "This is going to be so much fun."

Mass. colleges attract new presidents from out of state
Massachusetts

Mass. colleges attract new presidents from out of state

State House News Service

BOSTON — Two public colleges in Massachusetts have new presidents, after the Board of Higher Education voted Tuesday to approve leaders for the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

New MCLA President James "Jaimie" Birge, a Lee native, was previously the president of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H. and the interim president at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, W.V.

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