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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
— Dave Barry
FACT OF THE DAY
The umbrella was originally invented to protect people from the hot sun.
—http://www.infobarrel.com/
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL
1. Riots on the rise in China after recent class violence
BEIJING — Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China.
In the most recent case, more than 180 people died in ethnic violence that convulsed a Muslim area of western China last week. The spark for the unrest in Xinjiang was a brawl between majority Han Chinese and Muslim Uighur factory workers 1,800 miles away.
Weeks earlier, tens of thousands of people swarmed into the streets of a city in the country's heartland, overturning police cars and torching a hotel.
NATIONAL
4. Evangelist's trial details accusations of sex abuse
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Evangelist Tony Alamo preyed on his loyal followers' young daughters, once taking a girl as young as 8 as his bride and repeatedly sexually assaulting her, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Clay Fowlkes told jurors that a 15-year-old girl who left the Alamo ministries in 2006 told the FBI that Alamo married her at age 8. The girl told agents Alamo exchanged wedding vows and rings with her and first sexually assaulted her before she turned 10, Fowlkes said.
The trigger for those riots, which left hundreds injured in Shishou, was the supposed suicide of a hotel chef.
2. Families wait to learn fate of protesters in Iran
Another similar call came in 1998, when Alamo married a 14-year-old girl, Fowlkes said. In 2002, Alamo, then 67, summoned three underage girls into his bedroom and shut the door, telling God wanted him to marry
CAIRO — Several dozen families camp outside Iran's daunting Evin prison, trying to learn the fate of loved ones who vanished in post-election turmoil.
A month into the government crackdown, the number of killed and arrested remains unknown, but human rights groups believe the death toll is far higher than the official figure of 20.
Many of at least 500 known to have been arrested have disappeared in prisons, held in secret locations and barred from contact with families.
Rights groups say perhaps
dozens of others have not been heard of since the protests and their relatives still cannot determine whether they are now locked in a cell or dead.
two of them, Fowlkes said. Alamo later sexually assaulted two of those girls he married, one 11, the other 14, the prosecutor said.
3. Security increases after civil unrest, police shooting
It was the first time the government has acknowledged that its security forces opened fire since the violence hit Urumqi on July 5. The government says at least 184 people have been reported killed, most of them Han Chinese, and another 1,680 wounded.
Don Ervin, who is leading Alamo's defense team, told jurors to focus on the facts in the case. He said all the girls' travel came as part of the ministry's efforts to give people "decent lives for themselves."
Judge Deborah Durden on Tuesday upheld last month's decision by the state Funeral Board to revoke the license of Cave Funeral Home and owner Michael Cave.
URUMQI, China — The capital of China's western Xinjiang region was tense amid tight security Tuesday. a day after police fatally shot two Uighur men and wounded a third more than a week after deadly ethnic rioting.
Cave admitted in an administrative court that his Allendale funeral home cut the legs off 6-foot-7 James Hines five years ago and did not tell his family.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina judge has ordered the closing of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a body so it would fit in a casket.
5. Funeral home shut down after corpse mutilation
Hines' widow said finding out what happened was like having her husband die a second time. A fired funeral home worker notified the family about a year ago.
6. Two still in hospital after bus crashes in Manhattan
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Two of the 18 people injured when a charter bus carrying Job Corps students was hit by a tractor-trailer remain hospitalized.
The bus was making a legal U-turn Monday afternoon west of Manhattan when it was hit from behind by the truck, police said.
The charter bus was carrying students from the Flint Hills Job Corps Center back to Manhattan after a trip to Kansas City.
Associated Press
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Stealing lobster tails from casino lands man in prison
ODD NEWS
MAYS LANDING, N.J. — A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to stealing 91 lobster tails from an Atlantic City casino's kitchen by cramming them into his jacket and backpack. He's been sentenced to four years in prison.
Anthony Jones took the frozen lobsters from Bally's Atlantic City in February. A security guard monitoring a surveillance camera noticed his clothes were unusually bulky, and stopped him.
He pleaded guilty to burglary on Friday in a plea deal.
Associated Press
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