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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS
Two convicts escape in truck, now on the run in stolen car
WINFIELD — A box truck that two inmates used to escape from the Winfield Correctional Facility in south-central Kansas has been found abandoned about 15 miles away.
The Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release that the truck sustained a blowout northeast of Rock and was found Sunday, June 17.
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012
The discovery was made one day after corrections officials
identified 52-year-old Robert Cook and 48-year-old Frank Crutchfield as missing.
Now, officials say a truck belonging to the nearby city of Douglass is missing and that the fugitives are suspected of taking it. The vehicle is described as a dark blue 2006 GMC Sierra with a Kansas license tag of 74914.
Authorities are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of the two men or the missing truck to contact law enforcement.
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WEATHER
Hurricane Carlotta causes major destruction in Mexico
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ACAPULCO, Mexico Hurricane Carlotta slammed into Mexico's resort-studded Pacific coast late Friday, June 15, toppling trees and lashing hotels while authorities evacuated people from low-lying areas.
The rapidly changing hurricane made landfall as a Category 1 storm
near Puerto Escondido, a laid-back port popular with surfers, and is expected to push inland and northward in the direction of Acapulco.
"The wind is incredible and the trees are swaying so much. A window just shattered," said Ernesto Lopez, a 25-year-old engineer who was visiting Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca state for a graduation.
Coral Ocampo, receptionist at the Hotel Careyes, said the wind was tearing down the skinnier palm trees and that she had asked guests to return to their rooms and stay there until the storm had passed.
we're going to have fun at the club," said Alejandra Flores, who took a bus with a friend yesterday from Guadalajara to Acapulco.
Carlotta strengthened into a powerful Category 2 hurricane Friday and forecasters expected it to move northward, parallel to the coastline, possibly reaching Acapulco as a hurricane. But instead it moved inland and weakened. Forecasters then expected Carlotta to become a tropical storm on Saturday and a tropical depression on Sunday.
Rain was also falling in Acapulco in neighboring Guerrero state, but authorities lifted the hurricane warning for the famed Pacific resort late Friday night and lowered it to a storm warning.
By late Friday night, Carlotta's winds had lessened to 90 mph (150 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center of the storm was about 10 miles (15 km)s northwest of Puerto Escondido and was moving to the northwest at about 10 mph (17 kph).
Oaxaca's civil protection service said some roads near the resorts of Huatulco and Pochutla were affected by mudslides, and that authorities had opened emergency shelters and evacuated dozens of families from low-lying areas.
"We don't care about the rain,
Ines Vos, a German who has lived on Mexico's coast for 22 years and now runs the Beach Hotel Ines in Puerto Escondido, said she had readied the hotel's generator and stocked up on gasoline and bottled water in preparation for the storm.
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A store with a living space at the top lays in ruins after being damaged by Hurricane Carlotta along the Pacific coast in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, Saturday June 16, 2012. Carlotta arrived in Puerto Escondida as a Category 1 hurricane.
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