University of Colorado freshman recovers from attack

One day after he was stabbed in a bizarre campus attack, a University of Colorado freshman from Winnetka, Ill., spent Tuesday with family and friends who say the 17-year-old is doing well. Michael George Knorps was released from a hospital Monday night after surgery for a stab wound in the neck, inflicted by a former university employee with a history of mental illness. After meeting with Knorps' parents, university officials suspended eight campus workers who had been hired based on referrals from the same private mental-health agency that recommended the hiring of Kenton Astin, 39, the man accused in the attack. A University spokesman says university officials will conduct criminal background checks on the eight workers in addition to reviewing the school's background review process for the school's 7,200 employees.