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College shooting possible hate crime
EMERY P. DALESIO MARTHA WAGGONER MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
A former community college student dismissed from a work-study program for too many absences is accused of fatally shooting his former supervisor, who was gay, and police are investigating the campus slaying as a possible hate crime.
Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, 20, was arrested without incident early Tuesday while sleeping on a Florida beach, about 500 miles from Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Stancil made his first court appearance later in the day, saying in a profanity-laced and unsubstantiated tirade that the man he killed had molested a relative.
Police say Stancil shot 44-year-old Ron Lane on Monday morning at the college. Lane, the school's print shop director, had been Stancils supervisor in a work-study program before Stancil was let go in early March. It wasn't clear how long they had worked together.
Police have not released a motive in the shooting. Stancil's mother told The Associated Press that Lane made sexually laced comments to her son.
"He was verbally inappropriate with Morgan at school. Very much verbally inappropriate," Debbie Stancil said. "He would tell him to stop and he kept on."
College spokeswoman Tara Humphries said she did not
know whether any complaints had been lodged against Lane. Classes were canceled Monday, but the school re-opened Tuesday.
"It's a day of healing. We will be paying personal tributes to Ron Lane," Humphries said
Debbie Stancil said she knows one of her relatives was not sexually abused by Lane, as Kenneth Stancil claimed in court, because the relative and Lane had rever met. She believes Kenneth Stancil is making the accusations because he is "rattled and confused."
"I don't agree with what he did, but in his mind he must have thought that was the only way," she said. "He's probably out of his mind. I think he needs mental help."
He never recovered from his father's suicide in 2009 and was angry about being dismissed from the college's print shop, she told AP.
Experts who track hate groups said Stancil's facial tattoo with the number "88" is a clear indication of a neo-Nazi — a group that has been accused of attacking gays. However, police have not said whether Stancil held white supremacist beliefs or what hate crime they are investigating.
Stancil entered the print shop on the third-floor of a campus building and fired once with a pistol-grip shotgun, police said. The shooting sparked a campus-wide lockdown and
Stancil's mother said he gave himself the facial tattoo over the weekend and it marked a wannabe rather than someone who expressed neo-Nazi views.
officers stormed the building looking for Stancil, who fled on a motorcycle.
"Mr. Stancil had a calculated plan," Goldsboro police Sgt. Jeremy Sboro said.
He left behind a six-page letter explaining his actions and a video, which have been turned over to police, his mother said.
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Police found the motorcycle abandoned in a median on Interstate 95, about 80 miles south of Goldsboro. They are not sure how he got to Florida.
The manhunt lasted for nearly a day, ending with Stancil's arrest in Daytona Beach. He had a knife on him but was apprehended without incident. Police have not found the 12-gauge shotgun they believe was used to kill Lane.
A booking photo from Florida showed Stancil with the number "88" on his left cheek, a number used by racist extremists, said Brian Levin, a criminal justice professor and director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. Because "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet, 88 equates to HH or "Heil Hitler," Levin said.
A North Carolina State Highway patrolman walks the grounds on campus following a shooting at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, N.C. Monday. One person was killed and the campus was locked down as authorities searched for a gunman, officials said.
"Those who get facial tattoos tend to be the uppermost, anti-social part of the scale," Levin said.
Goldsboro police and the Wayne County district attorney's office will work to have Stancil extradited to North Carolina to face a murder charge.
At his bond hearing, Stancil told the judge there is now "one less child molester."
"Doing time is the easy part.
know what I'm saying?" he said.
The judge denied bond and appointed a public defender. Lane's brother and sister declined to comment when reached by AP.
Stancil had no criminal record before the shooting. He was on the school's dean's list with a grade point average of 3.6 or better and due to graduate in July with a degree in welding technology, the school said.
education support technology at the college, was Lane's supervisor for the past three years. He said he thought Stancil killed Lane because he was upset over being dismissed, not because he was gay.
Brent Hood, coordinator of
"I guess from my point of view, he (Stancil) was angry over getting dismissed from his duties." Hood told The Associated Press. "He worked very well with Ron; he worked very well with my other employees."
UBER FROM PAGE 1
In fact, Altmin said users and trips in these suburbs of Wichita and Kansas City are growing every week, and they just record in the previous weeks.
"Kansas City" is a broad term for the area that Uber covers, as it reaches out to cities like Shawnee, Overland Park, Lee's Summit, Lansing and more, according to Uber's map of reach.
Additionally, before the bill, Uber was looking to expand its services to Lawrence and Manhattan for the convenience of college students.
states. Altmin said.
When SB117 was presented, Altmin said the company supported the original draft; however, the amendments made to SB117 would make operations impossible to continue in the state of Kansas.
A provision to the bill was added that would require drivers to carry commercial insurance that's not currently required in any of the other 49
"The insurance companies and banks think they should require commercial insurance as soon as the app is turned on, while Uber believes it shouldn't start until someone is actually picked up," said Rep. Travis Couture-Lovelady (R-110).
Altmin said despite Uber recently becoming aligned with the insurance industry, this is separate from anything that companies are pushing.
"We want to save this transportation for people who use Uber to get home, to work or anywhere else. For drivers, these are jobs being taken away."
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Couture-Lovelady said he voted against the bill.
"I believe it stifles this exciting new business," Couture-Lovelady said. "[Uber] has a huge effect on young people that will decrease drinking and driving."
However, Couture-Lovelady said the bill does have some good things in it from Uber's perspective, such as limiting local governments' ability to further regulate the company beyond state law.
There is also a measure to require drivers with lions on their cars, an aspect of an auto loan, to pay for collision and comprehensive coverage.
Backing this collision insurance requirement is the Kansas Bankers Association (KBA).
"Our primary reason for supporting the bill is because we know that there are gaps in coverage that don't protect the collateral that banks have over the driver's cars," said Doug Wareham, executive vice president of government relations for KBA. "We support the language that ensures, whether it's Uber or a different transportation company, that when they sign up drivers, it's verified
that they have comp[enssation] and collision coverage for the vehicle in all three phases."
The phases are similar to what Couture-Lovelady described as far as the driver's process for picking up riders.
Phase one refers to a driver roaming for business, usually in popular areas like Kansas City's Power and Light District or near Kauffman Stadium. Phase two is when a driver has actually connected with someone and is in route to get them. Phase three is when the rider is in the car.
Wareham said as of right now, Uber only provides insurance policies for phases 2 and 3.
"Some people think that the driver's individual insurance covers phase one, when it doesn't. Wareham said. "What you have are drivers trolling for business, in a car that's acting as collateral for a bank or lender."
According to Wareham, this bill wouldn't just protect these banks and lenders, but drivers as well.
"If something were to happen to [the driver's] car in phase one, they'd be stuck without insurance and expected to pay back what they owe to their bank or lender," Wareham said.
Rep. Scott Schwab (R-49) led the amendment process when it came time for the conference committee stage. He could not be reached for comment.
The bill was enrolled and presented to Brownback on April 10 and he will either sign or vet it on April 29.
In an attempt to stop the bill, Uber launched a petition that now has over 6,000 signatures, about 1,500 short of their goal. "Support Uber" offers a letter to Brownback, asking him to veto the bill in order to save jobs, money and safe rides.
"We want to save this transportation for people who use Uber to get home, to work or anywhere else." Altmin said. "For drivers, these are jobs being taken away."
EPA FROM PAGE 1
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the burden will be on some of these interest groups that currently are benefiting from the fact they don't have to pay for these emissions."
According to the press release, comments from Kansas and other states in 2014 of why the rule was unlawful and where the EPA was wrong have never been addressed by the EPA. The letter insists that "[the regulations] must therefore be withdrawn."
O'Lear said while the pushback from states was to be expected, the EPA is just doing its job to protect the environment.
In 2009, California was granted a waiver to restrict carbon monoxide emissions more stricty than the EPA. California's ability to categorize this as pollutant frightened some of the industries because it allowed for more regulation, O'Lear said.
"There was a backlash by the American Legislative Exchange Council that worked to try and get the EPA's hands tied in a bunch of states after California," she said. "They tried to undermine national EPA operations. That's why it's hard when we paint this picture of the EPA wearing a white hat or a black hat and
the industry is wearing the other hat, it's so much messier than all that."
While the EPA is trying to regulate these emissions that change the atmosphere and how energy passes through it, Feddema said those opposing the regulations don't realize who it affects.
"Poor air quality is a cost shared by everyone in society, particularly the poor because of where they live which is sometimes where there are less than desirable conditions," Feddema said. "In a
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He said Kansas legislature is reluctant to do anything to regulations because it doesn't want to spend money or limit freedoms.
sense the EPA is there to make sure the people that can't get away, essentially, are still getting good air quality."
"There's this whole idea called freedom, but my freedom to put a power plant in my backyard if I wanted would really hinder my neighbors' quality of life," he said. "There's always a tradeoff of who's benefitting and
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