MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Kansas’ win Monday night saved a local furniture store from having to make good on its promise to issue refunds if the Memphis Tigers won the NCAA men’s basketball championship.

LOS ANGELES — University of Southern California officials are looking to expel rumors about the university’s rights over student work after a Los Angeles Times blog reported that George Lucas stole the negative of his final project at USC to use as the basis for his first feature film.

PITTSBURGH — There are exactly six hours left in turn 64, and it has come down to the final two teams: Ron Paul and Stephen Colbert.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Over the course of several years, UCF has loaned $7.4 million of university revenue to the UCF Athletics Association Inc. and has yet to begin repayment, despite missed deadlines. The loan, according to the Office of the Auditor General, violates Florida Statutes and cannot be accounted for.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — If Barack Obama can fight off a pack of Harvard Law School vampires, beating Hillary should be a piece of cake.

Dubbed a “hero” by news organizations, a former restaurant security guard described the events surrounding a 2003 suicide bomb attack in Israel that critically injured him and killed several others to around 30 University of Maryland students Nov. 13.