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Missing student's kin: Keep info prominent

The family of a missing Indiana University student from Westchester County is upset that the school has taken information about her June 3 disappearance off its main Web page.

A school spokesman told The Herald Times of Bloomington, Ind., that officials have decided to rotate a prominent link about Lauren Spierer with other information on the Bloomington campus' home page. It will be featured the first week of every month and remain on the Protect IU page indefinitely.

The Greenburgh woman's father, Robert Spierer, wrote on Facebook that the family is disappointed by the decision.

Four killed in NYC weekend shootings

Four men were killed in separate weekend shootings in three of the city's five boroughs.

Police found Cody Kahn, 20, with a wound to the chest about 1 a.m. Sunday on a street in South Jamaica, Queens. Meanwhile, Sean Edwards, 40, died of a shot to the face in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on Saturday evening.

Late Saturday afternoon on a street corner in East Corona, Queens, George Portillo, 31, died of a bullet to the chest. And just before dawn Saturday, a gunshot in a Bronx stairwell took the life of Elijah Green, 23, who was hit in the head in the McKinley housing project. No arrests have been made in any of the shootings; investigations continue.

2 from New York dead in N.J. turnpike crash

Two New York residents were killed and two others injured when their car crashed into a construction vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike near Carteret, N.J.

Two construction workers also were injured in Saturday's crash, which occurred around 4:30 p.m. in the northbound truck lanes. Witnesses said the car veered into the left shoulder and hit the back of a vehicle used to protect workers at the work site. State Police Sgt. Brian Polite said the driver, Marvin Deleon-Quinonez, 31, of Pleasantville, was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, Tono Alarcon of Westchester, died later at a hospital.

Compiled from wire reports