2A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2003
News briefs
STATE
Men arrested in beating case transported to Douglas Countrv
After being arrested in Greenwood County, two men were transported to Douglas County yesterday evening in connection with the beating of a man found in north Lawrence early Monday morning, according to a press release issued by the Lawrence Police Department.
Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Pattrick said the available information concerning the investigation would be used to determine booking charges for the two men.
The victim of the beating was 21 year-old Josh Greemore of Mayetta. Greemore was found lying on the outskirts of Riverfront Park at about 6:30 a.m. Monday. He suffered both sharp and blunt trauma injuries to his upper torso and head. He is now listed in serious condition at a Kansas City-area hospital.
Investigation of the beating led Lawrence police officers to the Jayhawk Motel, 1004 N. Third St., where Greemore was last seen. At the motel, Lawrence police officers discovered a vehicle had been stolen from the motel and initiated a search for a blue 1991 Geo Storm.
Officers from the Greenwood County sheriff's office found the car later Monday afternoon with two men inside and pursued it.
The vehicle stopped in Elk County and its occupants fled on foot into a wooded area. Greenwood County officers searched for the men for several hours but could not find them.
Sheriff's deputies found the men walking back into Greenwood County yesterday morning at about 8 a.m. They were taken into custody for crimes related to the vehicle pursuit.
Erin Ohm
Legislator support uncertain for gambling provision
TOPEKA — Despite a push from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, legislative leaders say chances are slim that any measures to expand gambling will be debated this session.
Sebelius is expected to include a
provision for additional gambling at Kansas racetracks in her proposals for covering a projected budget shortfall of nearly $1 billion.
But Senate President Dave Kerr is uncertain there is much legislative support for legalizing more gambling, which he said would take revenue away from the Kansas Lottery and other types of entertainment.
"I've never seen a state gamble its way to wealth," said Kerr, R-Hutchinson. "There's no real case to be made that this solves the state's problems. Certainly not on a timely basis."
Testimony was scheduled Tuesday before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee on bills allowing slot machines and other gambling devices at pari-mutuel tracks and lottery retail outlets, such as convenience stores.
NATION
Judge rules to release Sept.11 death certificates
NEW YORK - Some long-sealed documents used in issuing death certificates for people missing in the World Trade Center attack should be released to the public, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge Eve Preminger of Manhattan Surrogate Court said that personal information and affidavits filed by victims' relatives should remain sealed.
Preminger said she still was weighing whether to unseal the court files in about 50 cases where death certificates were rejected. Fraud is suspected in many of those cases.
The eight-page ruling was the result of a motion filed by The Associated Press to release the documents. The AP argued that there was a compelling public interest in unsealing the documents to establish a historical record and to document cases of fraud.
Because so many victims could not be identified, the state and city set up a special process shortly after the attack that allowed family members to obtain death certificates without their loved ones' remains. All court records related to proceedings had been sealed.
The Associated Press
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Steve Ducey, Overland Park sophomore and Zach Martin, Wichita sophomore, raffle off a water pipe on Wescoe Beach yesterday. Ducey and Martin represent Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and will draw the winner tomorrow afternoon.
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will hold a University Forum featuring Richard Norton Smith of the Dole Institute of Politics at noon today in the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Brown Bag Classics will present Pamela Hinchman's Opera Studio at
12:30 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3438
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at 207 Robinson. Contact Tim Forthman at 865-3913.
Student Union Activities and KU Memorial Unions will sponsor a Free
Night of Comedy from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.today at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. Contact Chandra Dunbar at 864-2434.
Hawk Nights will hold Talent Show Auditions from 8 to 10:30 tonight at Alder son Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Contact Paige Isaacson at 812-3144.
ON THE RECORD
A KU employee told the KU Public Safety Office that someone took an HP Laser Desk Jet printer, valued at $150, between 12:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Monday from the Higuchi Biosciences Center in Simons Biosciences Research Laboratories, according to reports.
Et Cetera
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A 20-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took two sub-woofer speakers and a Kenwood cassette player from his car between 10 p.m. Sunday and 11:15 a.m. Monday in the 100 block of West 14th Street, according to reports. The items were valued at $309.
A 19-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took a Dell laptop, an ibanez guitar and a calculator from his residence between 5 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday in the 1000 block of Louisiana Street, according to reports. The items were valued at $2,785.
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