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Mark Twain
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COURTS Hearing set for suspect in drive-by-shooting
Joseph A. Muhammad of Overland Park, who is currently being held by the Douglas County Jail in connection with a drive-by shooting outside The Hawk March 26, appeared in court Wednesday.
Edward L. Bigus, Muhammad's defense representation during the hearing, requested that Muhammad undergo psychiatric evaluation.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday, April 10 at 2:15 p.m. The hearing is expected to last about two hours.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Eight killed in helicopter crash off Scotland's coast
EDINBURGH, Scotland — A helicopter returning from a North Sea oil platform went down off the northeast coast of Scotland on Wednesday with 16 people on board, and police said at least eight were killed. First Minister of Scotland's nationalist government, said the outlook was grim.
"It looks like we might be might be facing (Britain's) second-worst helicopter incident in history, in terms of the number of fatalities," he said. "Eight bodies have been recovered and I am afraid to say the outlook for the other eight people involved is extremely bleak."
2. Mexico tries to catch smuggled U.S. guns
MEXICO CITY — Mexico is owning up to its leaky border as it launches a new program to monitor vehicles entering the country. The goal is to weigh and photograph southbound cars and trucks, in hopes of snaring
LONDON — Chanting G20 protesters clashed with riot police in central London on Wednesday, vandalizing the Bank of England and smashing windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland. An effigy of a banker was set ablaze, drawing cheers.
more gun smugglers. As the Obama administration promises a crackdown on the illegal U.S. weapons trade that supplies the drug cartels, Mexico is acknowledging shortcomings on its side of the 2,000-mile border. The ATF says it has traced up to 95 percent of guns seized at scenes of drug violence in Mexico to U.S. commercial sources.
3. Protestors, police clash in Bank of England riot
More than 30 people were arrested after some 4,000 protestors clogged London's financial district for what demonstrators branded "Financial Fool's Day."The protests were called ahead of Thursday's Group of 20 summit of world leaders, who hope to take concrete steps to resolve the global financial crisis.
NATIONAL
4. House set to vote on tobacco regulation bill
WASHINGTON — The House was poised Wednesday to vote on the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which would amount to the biggest change ever in the government's approach toward tobacco.
Although the FDA wouldn't be allowed to ban nicotine or tobacco, the agency would be able to regulate the contents of tobacco products, make public their ingredients, prohibit flavoring, require much larger warning labels and control marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children.
Opponents contended that the FDA was already overburdened and couldn't handle the job of regulating another big industry. U.S. tobacco production was valued at $1.3 billion in 2007.
EL DORADO, Ark. — Police in Arkansas said a drunken man stole
5. Man charged for drunk iovride in stolen school bus
a parked school bus and then asked a woman if she wanted to go for a ride. 44-year-old Joseph P. Fannin theft and driving while intoxicated charges for the incident Friday night. He remains held on $5,000 bond.
Police said Fannin told them he'd been kicked out of the bar and got into the bus because it was "a warm, dry place."
DENVER — A jury on Wednesday began deliberating a lawsuit in which a former University of Colorado professor claims he was fired for writing an essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to the Nazis' Holocaust architect, Adolf Eichmann. The school said it fired Ward Churchill in 2007 because he plagiarized and misrepresented sources in his academic research.
6. Deliberations begin in lawsuit for Colo. professor
Churchill's attorney, David Lane, told jurors in closing arguments that Churchill was fired for criticizing the "master narrative" of history.
Associated Press
KANSASCITIES
Pratt
BY LISA ANDERSEN landersen@kansan.com
City: Pratt
City: Platt Nickname: P-Town or The Gateway to the High Plains Country: Arkansas
County: Atchison
Location: Southwestern Kansas Distance from Lawrence: 4 hours or 245 miles Founded: 1879 Population: 6,406 Destinations: Pratt Community College, Lemon Park Nature Trail,
★ Pratt • Lawrence
Hot and Cold Water Towers, Pratt County Veterans Memorial Lake, KDWP Nature Education Center, Operations Office and Fish Hatchery, Hot and Cold Water Towers, shopping and antiques
Interesting Fact: The city was
named after Caleb Pratt, a civil war officer from Brantis Infantry killed in the Battle of Wilson Creek near Springfield, Mo. in 1861. It is unlikely he had ever been to Pratt.
- Sources: www.prattkan.com, www.
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT GROWING UP IN PRATT?
Andrew Taylor Pratt sophomore
"I've got a lot of family close by and there's a bunch of good people around. I have a lot of good friends."
Joe Schmisseur Pratt sophomore
"Primarily the people. When you live in a town that small, no matter where you go or what you do you're going to run into people that you know."
Heather Himmelwright Pratt freshman
"The fact that I could step out of my house and there would be nothing around me but wheat fields."
Amber Bortz Pratt junior
"It's small enough that everybody knows everybody, but it's big enough that it still has a Wal-Mart."
POLITICS
Corruption indictment expected for Blagoievich
CHICAGO — An indictment is expected as early as Thursday charging ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagoevich with presiding over state government awash in political corruption.
produce would replace a complaint charging Blagojevich with plotting to trade or sell President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat and a host of other corruption.
The indictment U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald is expected to
While timing of grand jury meetings is never disclosed. Thursday is believed to be the last before a Tuesday deadline for the complaint to be replaced.
Fitzgerald could ask U.S. District Court Chief Judge James
"We're just hours away from a massive pay-to-play indictment against Gov. Blagojevich and possibly others," former federal prosecutor Patrick M. Collins said Tuesday in unveiling recommendations by a state reform commission launched in response to the corruption scandal surrounding Blagojevich. Collins, who sent Gov. George Ryan to prison for racketeering, is chairman of the commission, which wants legislators to impose sweeping changes
F. Holderman for an extension, but all signs point to an imminent indictment.
Blagojevich, 52, denies any wrongdoing. But the Democrat's Dec. 9 arrest ended his political career. The Illinois House impeached him Jan. 9. The Senate convicted him and removed him from office Jan. 29. He took off on a surprise tour of national television talk shows to proclaim his innocence.
allegations, an affdavit accompanying the December complaint accuses Blagojevich of trying to use his political power to pressure the Chicago Tribune to fire editorial writers calling for his impeachment.
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In addition to the Senate seat
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Room 6 in Budig Hall.
The "Papyrus, Parchment,
Paper: A Brief History of Map-
Making" seminar will begin at
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ON CAMPUS
SUA Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m. in the Lobby in the Kansas Union.
The Ceramics Club Spring Art Sale will begin at 9:30 a.m. on the fourth floor in the Kansas Union.
The Air Force Lawyer Career Day will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Room 203 in Green Hall.
The Geography Brownbag Series will begin at noon in 210 Lindley Hall.
The World Expo, hosted by the International Student Association, will begin at noon in the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
CONTACT US
The "Poets Boisseau, Gallaler,
and Miller To Read at Oread Books" event will begin at 3 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
DOLE INSTITUTE
Pickens to discuss plan for sustainable energy
T. Boone Pickens will discuss a nationwide sustainable energy plan, commonly referred to as the Pickens Plan, in a town hall meeting at 4:30 p.m. on April 8 in the Dole Institute of Politics' main conference room. The program is free and open to the public and will include time for questions.
There will be an Empower Self Defense class held this Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Ambler Student Recreation and Fitness Center. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
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Pickens is the founder and chairman of BP Capital Management, a financial firm that manages some of the nation's most successful energy-oriented investment funds.
Mike Bontrager
"It's interesting the type of political influence one man can have," Ast said. "The Pickens plan presents one answer to the U.S. energy crisis; it's a market-driven strategy."
Cori Ast, communications and event coordinator for the Dole Institute and December 2008 graduate, said Pickens devised the plan because he was outraged with Americans' dependency on foreign oil. According to a news release from the Dole Institute, the plan proposes using the domestic supply of natural gas as transportation fuel, harnessing wind and solar power, increasing incentives for household energy-saving alternatives, and creating a national electrical grid.
U. S Senator Sam Brownback will introduce Pickens at the meeting.
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