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Girl dropped off at hospital with gun shot wounds

Jessica Dabrowski Fox 8-  A 19-year-old woman who was dropped off at the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the upper torso has died, Sgt. Sammy Morris with the Cleveland Division of Police confirmed. The Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office confirmed the victim is Racine Redmon, of Cleveland. Police were called to St. Vincent Charity Hospital around 2:15 a.m. on Friday to investigate. After receiving a description of the vehicle used to transport Redmon, officers discovered the car near E. 66th and Scoville Avenue, where they found one woman inside. Homicide detectives are questioning her, but no arrests had been made at the time of this report. Other details surrounding the shooting were not known. The Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office will determine the official cause of death.

Congress set to extend low student loan rates

CNN- Congress was voting Friday to extend low 3.4% interest rates on federally subsidized student loans for another year, barely beating a July 1 deadline when the rates would double. Both the Senate and House were expected to pass the measure. The bill to extend student loans is wrapped up in a bigger bill that spends $109 billion to continue funding for programs that pave roads and improve bridges. The bill also extends for five years the federal flood insurance program, which insures families against flood damage to homes. The vote on student loan rates would be good news for more than 7 million students taking out loans for the next school year who won’t have to dig deeper to pay off higher interest rates. President Obama brought national attention to the issue of student loan interest rates and started campaigning for it back in April. After the Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney also said he supported the extending low rates, Congress got serious about looking for ways to make it happen. Republican and Democratic lawmakers for months have said they agreed the interest rate should hold steady. The big sticking point has been how to pay the roughly $6 billion price tag to extend the low rates for another year. During negotiations this week, lawmakers decided that the revenue to extend the 3.4% rates should come from changes to the way companies fund pension programs. The deal would also limit how long undergraduate students can go to school without accruing interest on student loans to six years. The interest rate for subsidized student loans used to be 6.8%. But when Democrats took over the House in 2007, they phased in lower rates. The rates fell to the current low of 3.4% for subsidized Stafford loans this past school year, but are scheduled to revert back to 6.8% for the 2012-2013 school year. And with unemployment just below 24% for teenagers and 14% for ages 20 to 24, more young people are going back to school or staying in school, according to recent data by Equifax. Additionally, more students struggle to pay back those loans. Student loans that are three months late rose 14.6% in 2011 from the year before, according to Equifax.