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dents are immediately met with mounting financial stress.
• Full-time enrollment at the state's universities dropped this year by 0.94 percent, only the second time since 1999 that enrollment has fallen. It's too soon to know if university enrollment has peaked, but the steady increase in the cost of a college education eventually will force more high school graduates to look for lower-cost career choices.
• We appreciate the Board of Regents' efforts to hold down student costs while providing access to a quality education, but the trend toward higher college education costs doesn't appear to be slowing down.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. REVELATIONS ABOUT QUESTIONING OF BOSTON BOMB SUSPECT
• U.S. officials say Dzokhar Tsarnaev stopped talking after he was read his Miranda rights, and after admitting his role in the marathon attacks.
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• 2. BANGLADESH BUILDING ORDERED CLOSED A DAY BEFORE COLLAPSE
• Factories flouted the mandate -- despite deep cracks visible in the walls -- before the building tumbled down, killing nearly 200 people.
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• 3. WARNINGS IN KOREAS, THIS TIME FROM THE SOUTH
• Seoul warned of a "grave measure" if North Korea rejects talks on reopening a jointly run factory park shuttered for nearly a month.
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• 4. A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE U.S. ECONOMY
• A new survey today finds Americans' belief in the job market has rebounded to a normal level from record lows after the Great Recession.
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• 5. FUEL BARGES BURNING ON ALABAMA RIVER
• At least seven explosions created a major fire that left three workers hospitalized burned overnight on the Mobile River.
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• 6. WHERE ALL LIVING U.S. PRESIDENTS WILL BE TODAY
• Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush will join George (Continued on page 34)
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