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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I'm half machine. I'm a monster."
— Buster Bluth, "Arrested Development"
FACT OF THE DAY
Amy Poehler, who is married to Will Arnett in real life, also plays his wife on the show.
—Funtrivia.com
Potter Lake was built in 1911 in order to combat major fires on campus. Swimming and diving contests were held there until the water quality was deemed too poor and swimming was banned in 1924.
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL
1. Chinese woman not punished for stabbing
BEIJING — A Chinese woman who became a folk hero after fatally stabbing a Communist Party official to fend off his demands for sex was freed by a court Tuesday.
Deng Yujiao, 21, was accused of stabbing the official with a knife and injuring his colleague when the two nebirated men cornered her one night last month at her workplace. Her popularity reflects widespread anger in China over abuse of power by communist officials and the security forces.
The court ruled that Deng should be spared punishment because the injury resulted from excessive force used in self-defense and that she had limited criminal responsibility because she was manic-depressive.
2. Women imprisoned for illegal entry into country
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's state-run news agency says that two American journalists sentenced last week to 12 years of labor admitted they crossed into the country illegally.
The Korean Central News Agency said in a detailed report Tuesday that Laura Ling and Euna Lee of Current TV were arrested after crossing the Tumen River.
The report said the women "admitted and accepted"the sentences handed down by North Korea's top court on June 8.
BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
3. German prime minister assumes missing are dead
said two German women who went missing in Yemen are presumed to have been killed.
It was the first official confirmation from Germany of reports from Yemen that two of three mutilated bodies found Monday were German women.
Steinmeier says a team of German experts was sent Tuesday to Yemen to assist with the identification of the bodies.
But he said, "We must unfortunately assume that the two German women who were missing are among the dead."
He said five Germans remain missing despite "conflicting reports and speculation" that they might have been killed.
NATIONAL
Steinmeier said, "We will do everything in our powers to return the Germans still missing in Yemen back home."
4. Attorneys explain bail increase for Tiller case
In a docket hearing Tuesday, Roeder's preliminary hearing was continued until June 30.
WICHITA — Prosecutors are taking possible threats made by the man accused of killing abortion provider George Tiller seriously. That's why the bond for Scott Roeder was raised to $20 million from $5 million.
A transcript released Tuesday of an impromptu telephone call last week between attorneys and the judge in the case makes public for the first time why his bond was increased.
In raising the bond, Judge Warrer Wilbert cited comments Roeder has made to the news media since his arrest about other possible anti-abortion "events."
5. Cowworker surrenders after parking lot murders
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A coworker suspected in the Monday morning shootings of a bus driver and another man in the employee lot of a northern Virginia bus station surrendered later in the day, authorities said.
Police said the suspect, Glen Kinard Wade, and one of the victims, bus driver Darnell McPherson, had a fight before shooting broke out about 11 a.m. at the Potomac and Rapphannock Transportation Commission.
McPherson, 32, of Dale City and William Anderson Jr., 34, of woodbridge were killed. Both McPherson and the suspect were commission employees, while Anderson was an outside contractor.
Wade, a 40-year-old from Woodbridge, turned himself in to Prince William County Police Monday. He
was charged with murder and is being held without bond.
6. Trooper faces criticism for pulling over ambulance
OKLAHOMA CITY — Bothered that an ambulance driver failed to yield to him as he raced to provide backup on a call — and angered further when he thought the driver flipped him an obscene gesture — state Trooper Daniel Martin decided to stop the ambulance and give the driver a piece of his mind.
What Martin didn't know then, his lawyer said Monday, was that there was a patient in the back of the ambulance.
Martin's attorney said the law allowed an officer to pull over an ambulance if its emergency lights and sirens aren't running, as was the case in this incident.
Associated Press
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ON THE RECORD
On Monday, June 11, the KU Public Safety Office reported the theft of 11 bicycles and a micro scooter from a storage lot at the KU Department of Student Housing Maintenance Shop. The estimated value of the items was listed at $3,300.
On Thursday, June 13, the KU Office of Public Safety reported a robbery near Sprague Apartments at 1400 Lilac Lane. Two men approached a sandwich shop delivery driver and took $204 through physical force.
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INDEX
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Sports P.20