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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2007
—Helen Nielsen
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Oh, how far KU football has come. Today is the 20-year anniversary of the "Toilet Bowl," a game that KU played against K-State in Manhattan to see which team would end the season last in the Big 8 and which team would end the season second to last. The game ended in a tie!
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NATION
NATION Girl receives detention for hugging friends at school
MASCOUTAH, III. — Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter.
"I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.
"I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend," she said.
The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends
Friday.
District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thought the penalty was fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.
ed that she's having to do this."
"It's hilarious to the point of ridicule," Megan's mother, Melissa Coulter, said. "I'm still dumbfound-
It states: "Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and
brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved."
Associated Press
Coulter said she and her husband told their daughter to go ahead and serve her detentions because the only other option was a day of suspension for each skipped detention.
Associated Press
Meridian, Idaho, Fire Department Capt. Blake Campbell gets a hug from his wife Wynne and their 11-year-old Bryn Coyn on Monday as his engine company, along with four others from the surrounding communities, returned after spending the past two weeks helping battle the wildfires in Southern California.
Welcome back from the wildfire
ODD NEWS Obese pig put on diet, sitter charged with cruelty
WINONA, Minn. — A pet pig whose weight tripled while it was in the care of a sitter has been placed on a diet — and an animal cruelty charge has been filed against the caretaker.
The 5-year-old animal, Alaina Templeton, pot partbelled pig, has lost 10 percent of her 150 pounds and is recovering well from surgery to remove a collar that had become embedded in her overly fat neck. owner Michelle Schmitz said.
Alaina made headlines last week after Schmitz complained that the pet sitter had allowed Alaina to go from her normal 50 pounds to 150 pounds in just nine months. Schmitz had left Alaina with the sitter, a co-worker, while she was on medical leave to recover from ankle surgery.
Alaina apparently had been foraging for cat food and chicken feed outdoors at the co-worker's farm.
Schmitz said that now that her pet is back home, the excess pounds would "melt off" with a healthy diet and exercise. She said she and Alaina's veterinarian considered 50 pounds a more suitable weight for the mixed-breed pig.
A misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty has been filed against
Mary Beesecker, 52, of Houston,
Minn., Winona County Sheriff
David Brand said.
"I want her to be held responsible for what she did and what she didn't do." Schmitz said.
Beeseker did not immediately respond to a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday, and she has refused requests from The Winona Daily News for an interview.
A Chelan County fire chief, Arnold Baker, said the couple missed being killed by a matter of inches in the accident Sunday on a highway near Manson.
When driving,beware of cows falling from the sky
MANSON, Wash. — Charles and Linda Eversion were driving back to their hotel when their minivan was struck by a falling object — a 600-pound cow.
The Eversons, visiting the area from their home in Westland, Mich. to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, were checked at Lake Chelan Community Hospital as a precaution.
He said he kept repeating: "I don't believe this. I don't believe this."
GRASS LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich.
— This township lived up to its name when authorities reported finding about 1,200 pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer.
The driver, a 43-year-old man from Tucson, Ariz., was jailed after Sunday's bust at a weigh station along Interstate 94 in Grass Lake Township, about 75 miles west of Detroit.
The Eversons were unhurt but the cow, which had fallen off a cliff, had to be euthanized.
the cow falling and didn't know what happened until afterward.
The year-old cow fell about 200 feet from the cliff and landed on the hood of the couple's minivan, causing heavy damage.
Police find marijuana stash in sports drink semitrailer
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Gary Kidd had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock, but the tooth of a woolly mammoth. That's because he had found one himself nine years ago.
The trucker had been stopped for what state police called an equipment violation. An inspection turned up 48 bales of marijuana hidden among a shipment of sports drinks.
Everson, 49, said he didn't see
Wisconsin child finds woolly mammoth tooth
He told his grandson it looked like the tooth of the extinct woolly mammoth.
"Grandpa, what's that?" Kaleb asked.
Next step was the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which confirmed that it was, indeed, the tooth of a mammoth.
Kaleb Kidd was chasing squirrels Monday at a family friend's property near La Crosse when he spotted what looked like an unusual rock.
Connie Arzigian, the center's lab director, said it could be 10,000 to 30,000 years old. It weighs 2 pounds and measures 6 inches long and 3 inches wide.
The latest find is in better shape than the one Gary Kidd brought up from the bottom of the Mississippi River while clamming in 1998. That tooth was water-soaked and had fallen apart, he was told when he took it to the center.
Gary Kidd, 46, said it would be up to Kaleb's father, Travis, to decide what to do with the tooth. For now it is on display at Satori Arts Gallery, much to Kaleb's dismay.
The center already has a woolly mammoth tooth in its collection, but it's always fun to see someone discover another one, Arzigian said
"It's wonderful to get an idea of what was here in the past," she said.
"When we dropped it down at the art gallery, he was crying. He didn't want to let it go," his grandad said. "At first he thought it was just a rock. Now he's all excited!"
on campus
Flu immunizations will be offered at 10 a.m. on Level 2 of the Burge Union. It costs $15 for the shot and $23 for the nasal mist.
The Education Career Fair will start at 10 a.m. in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union.
The Latin American Documentary Film Festival will present the film "Puedo Hablar" at 2 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
David Adkins, KU Medical Center, will present the forum "Opportunities and Growth Challenges for the Greater Metropolitan Kansas City Medical Schools and Health-Related Professions in the New Millennium" at noon at the ECM Center.
Glenn Adams will present the seminar "Globalizing Identity: How KU Students Imagine Community with the World" at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference Hall at the Hall Center.
The Udall Information Meeting will start at 4 p.m. at Nunemaker Center.
Coffee and Culture will start at 7 p.m. in the lobby at the Kansas Union.
The Second City Touring Co. will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
Rozanne Stringer will present the lecture "Shadowland and the Femme d'interieur: Edgar Degas's 'Portrait of Madam Camus', 1869-70" at 7:30 p.m. in the Malott炉 at the Kansas Union.
odd news
Man almost pitches his newfound riches
MURFREESBORO, Ark. — Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet.
A rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.
Johnson, 36, made the dig Saturday at the park and left his equipment in a locker. When he came back Monday morning, he made the discovery.
Crater of Diamonds State Park, which opened in 1972, is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public, and visitors can keep the gems they unearth. The largest diamond found at the park was the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight, a white diamond produced in 1975.
Johnson's find is the second-largest diamond uncovered at the park this year. In June, a Louisiana man found a 4.8-carat stone.
Associated Press
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