Two former Tufts University employees have been indicted on charges of stealing nearly $1 million from the university, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. announced yesterday.

According to the indictments, Josephine Nealley, director of the student activities office from 1996 to 2007, and Raymond Rodriguez, budget and fiscal coordinator of the office from 2001 to 2007, stole funds in two separate acts.

Investigators discovered that Nealley had control of bank accounts from the student activities office after the Tufts internal audit team received an anonymous tip.

Nealley used her access to transfer money into her personal accounts, Leone said.

Rodriguez wrote himself a check from a university account for $100,000, which he deposited into a personal account he used to pay credit card bills, investigators said.

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/07/02/2_accused_of_stealing_nearly_1m_from_tufts/

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Starbucks Corp. will close 600 US coffee shops and eliminate up to 12,000 jobs, the most in its history, as chief executive Howard Schultz slows the chain's expansion after it doubled in size in four years.

Starbucks gained up to 7.2 percent in late Nasdaq trading after saying the reductions amount to 7 percent of its workforce worldwide. The cuts include full- and part-time employees and will come over the next nine months. The details for the locations are still being finalized, the company said.

Source: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/07/02/struggling_starbucks_to_shut_600_shops_in_us/

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Former South African President Nelson Mandela is to be removed from a U.S. terrorism watch list under a bill President Bush signed Tuesday.

Mandela and other members of the African National Congress have been on the list because of their fight against South Africa's apartheid regime, which gave way to majority rule in 1994.

Apartheid was the nation's system of legalized racial segregation that was enforced by the National Party government between 1948 and 1994.

Source:http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/01/mandela.watch/index.html#cnnSTCText

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Angelina Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, will hold a press conference later this afternoon. It is not yet known what he will announce. The doctor has been watching the 33-year-old actress at a French Riviera hospital, where she checked in on Sunday and is expected to give (have given) birth.

Source: http://perezhilton.com/2008-07-02-angelina-having-a-press-conference