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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"What? Lemon, I date so socialites, models, actresses, Liz Hurley in the '90s."
Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
FACT OF THE DAY
During the writers strike, the cast of 30 Rock did alive performance of Episode 208 "Secrets and Lies" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to support the crew members of the show who were out of work.
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CRIME
Man guilty of murder, bias motivated crime
GREELEY, Colo. — A jury found a Colorado man guilty of first-degree murder for beating a transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher. 32-year-old Allen Andrade was convicted Wednesday in the death of 18-year-old Angie Zapata in Greeley. Andrade was also convicted of a bias-motivated crime.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Iraqis may use Twitter,
Web for entrepreneurship
BAGHDAD — "Breakfast time ...
Lots of helicopters ... Met the president of Iraq ... Amazing palace."
Tweet by tweet, the trip to Baghdad by Jack Dorsey unfolded on the Twitter network he co-founded.
One of his stops Wednesday:
A discussion at the U.S. Embassy with executives from other Web powerhouses such as YouTube and Google on the possible hightech horizons in a place that still can't guarantee round-the-clock electricity and whose Internet service is lumbering at best.
Their trip to Iraq's capital, sponsored by the State Department, was billed as a way to assess the faint stirrings of Iraq's online culture and possibly inspire future Iraqi Web entrepreneurs.
2. Obama 'misunderstood Raul Castro's remarks
HAVANA — Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to the island.
Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation last week that the U.S. and Cuba could be headed toward a thaw after nearly a half-century of chilly relations.
The speculation began when
Drawn by cheap North Korean labor, more than 100 South Korean companies have set up factories at Kaesong. The North says the labor is too cheap, a position that some South Korean analysts said Wednesday could threaten the existence of the complex itself.
North Korean workers in the complex just north of the heavily armed border are paid about $70 a month on average — about half that of Chinese laborers at South Korean factories in China, according to the South Korean government.
SEOUL, South Korea — A joint project between the Koreas to build an industrial park in the North was hailed as a symbol of detente, but it has now become another point of friction between the two countries.
3. Wage demands could jeopardize factories
NATIONAL
4. Ala. gunman left letter explaining killing spree
the Cuban president said leaders would be willing to sit down with their U.S. counterparts and discuss everything, everything, everything; including human rights, freedom of the press and expression, and political prisoners.
NATIONAL
DOTHAN, Ala. — The man who killed 10 people during last month's shooting spree in south Alabama left a letter for relatives, writing that he wanted people to pay for making his mother and him suffer, according to a report published Wednesday.
In the letter obtained by The Dothan Eagle newspaper, Michael McLendon wrote that he shot his mother to death while she slept, then set fire to the rural home they shared. After leaving the burning house March 10, McLendon went on a 24-mile shooting spree with four guns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition. He killed nine more people, including four other relatives, before committing suicide.
"Moma was very sick. Had lung cancer I think. So I put her out of her misery," McLendon wrote.
"I'm sorry! But Moma had suffered enough. And so have I. Some of the people who made us suffer will pay."
Obama responded at the Summit of the Americas by saying Washington seeks a new beginning with Cuba. But as he prepared to leave the summit Sunday, Obama also called on Cuba to release political prisoners and reduce taxes on remittances from the U.S.
An autopsy did not support McLendon's claims about his mother being ill, said Coffee County Chief Deputy R.W. Whitworth.
5. Judge allows mother to contact daughters WHITE
PLAINS, N.Y. — A judge is now allowing contact between a New York mother and the young daughter she is accused of ordering out of her car for arguing.
White Plains City Judge Barbara Leak has modified a temporary order of protection against 45-year-old Madlyn Primoff.
Her lawyer, Vincent Bricetti,
said Primoff was no longer barred
from living or talking with her
10- and 12-year-old daughters.
Primoff has pleaded not guilty to
child endangerment. Police say the
upset 10-year-old was found
Sunday on a White Plains street
A police report said the mother ordered both girls out of the car and drove off. They were three miles from their home in Scarsdale
6. Pools at foreclosed homes breed West Nile
NEW ORLEANS — Mosquito control workers can measure the recession by the number of green, cloudy swimming pools they see — algae-covered havens for mosquitoes dotting neighborhoods hit by the foreclosure crisis.
Aside from their annoying bites, mosquitoes carry West Nile virus and other diseases. With the number of foreclosures rising, it's becoming a more-important challenge to track down abandoned homes with pools from suburban Washington, D.C., to California
In Phoenix, for example, the number of pools left untended rose from about 6,000 in 2007 to more than 9,100 last year, said John Townsend, division manager for Maricopa County Vector Control.
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KANSASCITIES
Russell
BY DANIEL HEADY
dheady@kansan.com
City: Russell
City: Russell
Nickname: The center of it all,
Post Rock Country
County: Russell
Location: Central Kansas Distance from Lawrence: 3 hours 11 minutes, or 205.67 miles Founded: 1872
Center, Gernon House, Dream Theater, Fossil Station Museum, Oil Patch Museum, Russell Golf Course
Population: 4;280 as of 2006
Destinations: Deines Cultural
Interesting Fact: Home of Senator and 1996 Presidential Candidate Bob Dole, Senator Arlen
Specter, and Cecil Witt
Sources: http://www.russelcity.org,
mapquest.com, http://www.ru-
sellks.org
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT GROWING UP IN RUSSELL?
Todd Witt Russell sophomore "Small town, close-knit community. Great people and a great golf course."
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"I love the fact that I can go anywhere and see a familiar face. Why would anyone want to go to Russell? A steak at Meridy's, of course."
Alexa Heier Russell sophomore
"Russell was a great place to grow up because all of the people were very supportive and involved in my life. I will never forget the hometown feel."
Mallory Mahoney Russell sophomore
Katy Hoffman Russell sophomore
"It's a good place to grow up because of the close friends and great small-town memories. Visit Russell for hunting, riding around in the country and having fun with friends."
Sharon Carr
525 Rockfence Place
Lawrence, KS 66049
785-842-6703
SUA Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m. in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
The University Senate meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Courtside room in the Burge Union.
The "Rebels Wit Attitude:
Subversive Rock Humorist"
presentation and book signing
will begin at 1 p.m. in Oread
Books in the Kansas Union.
KU INDEPENDENT STUDY KU Courses Distance Learning
The tea and talk lecture entitled "Can English-speaking L2 Chinese Learners Say 'no' in Chinese?" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The "Luminescence from trapped-charges in silicates: dating techniques and applications" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
Do you have secret desires to be the KU mascot? Tryouts for Big Jay and Baby Jay are this weekend. There are some specific height requirements, though. Big Jay has to be between 6"0 to 6"3 and Baby Jay has to be between 4"11 to 5"1.
ON CAMPUS
The Geography Brownbag Series lecture will begin at noon in 210 Lindley Hall.
The Oread Books 40th Birthday Celebration will be held all day in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
Senior Session will begin at 10 a.m. in the 19th Century Gallery in the Spencer Museum of Art.
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The "Molecular Tools that Integrate Chemistry with Biology" lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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NATION More cougars creep into Central United States
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Wisconsin game managers get scores of reported sightings each year. They try to determine which are false, which are other animals such as bobcats, and which are cougars. Only two cougars have been confirmed in the state. The cougar killed in Chicago was seen and left clear tracks in the snow months earlier in the Milton area of Wisconsin's Rock County, 100 miles away, in January 2008.
CALEDONIA, Wis. — Anna Lashley can't forget her surprise when she looked out her kitchen window three years ago just south of Milwaukee and spotted what she believes was a cougar. Although the animals were wiped out in most of the eastern U.S. a century ago, they have recently shown up, migrating from the Black Hills of South Dakota into places like Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
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