CSU is looking for hundreds of volunteers to sort through the trash created in August by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other notables during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Starting at 11 a.m. Saturday and ending at 6 p.m. Sunday, the 19th annual Colorado Brewery Festival will be held in Old Town Fort Collins. The event will feature beer from breweries around the state, food from Fort Collins vendors and music from local bands.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California - a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands.

Five new monumental sculptures have recently appeared on campus, some standing 34 feet high. The bent and twisted steel beams are the works of an artist named Bret Price who works from studios in Ohio and California. Facilities Management agreed to pay between $15,000 and $20,000 for the delivery and installation of the pieces, said Gary Voss, a sculpture professor and future chair of the Art Department.

"Let's not kill ourselves with gangs and drugs, 'cause not only can we survive, but we can do it well," said Faith Goins to an enthusiastic audience of her peers from across the nation.

Most of them had met a mere three days before and were now cheering each other's performances of original poetry, African song and dance and piano.

Economics professor Martin Shields stood in front of about 20 Fort Collins residents Monday night and told them that the only way to fix the economy is to provide more funding for education.

He cited statistics showing that, on average in northern Colorado, people with college degrees make nearly $40,000 more than workers who had dropped out of high school, and that the disparity is growing steadily.

WINFIELD, Mo. (AP) - The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississippi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope.

Only National Guard soldiers and firefighters in life vests are allowed to stack sandbags, because volunteers and heavy equipment could sink.

At the Collegian we have always claimed to be proponents of environmental activism, although most of us drive our cars to work every day and buy products from large corporate entities like Wal-Mart that are slowly eating our planet away while claiming to be "green.

Justice is making a comeback.

In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a striking blow to the Bush administration on June 12 by ruling that so-called enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have the right to challenge their detention in federal court.

I first came to CSU in June of 2005. Less than three weeks after I arrived, CSU graduates Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe were murdered in Aurora.

I never knew them or their families, but they were part of the CSU community, which, by all accounts, was enriched by their lives.