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- Princess Leia
Some of the 20th Century Fox board of directors fell asleep during the first screening of "Star Wars."
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Armstrong iffy for Tour after collarbone injury
NEWS NEAR & FAR
BALTANAS, Spain — Lance Armstrong fractured his collarbone Monday during a race in Spain, leaving in question his participation in the Tour de France in July.
The seven-time Tour champion said he will fly to the United States and meet with medical experts to decide whether he needs surgery.
"We'll go from there," he said. "I think for the Tour it's a very big problem."
Armstrong was knocked off his bike during a pileup in the first stage of the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon race and was taken to a hospital by ambulance. Armstrong was grimacing and trying to hold his right arm as he entered the ambulance.
2. Religious cop attacks woman at training center
RITADH, Saudi Arabia — Visitors to a women's job training center heard terrified screams
The woman had apparently run for shelter in the center after the religious police caught her alone in a car with a man she is not related to — a violation of Saudi Arabia's strict gender segregation, one of the visitors, Nasreen Qattan, told the Associated Press.
LONDON — U.S. authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly about his ordeal in the overseas prison in exchange for his freedom, according to British court documents.
and rushed to see an agent of the religious police dragging a woman by her hair down the stairs of the building.
3. U.S. offered detainee freedom if he kept quiet
A ruling by two British High Court judges, issued in October but released only on Monday, said the U.S. offered former detainee Binyam Mohamed a plea bargain last year — six years after he was first detained as an enemy combatant.
NATIONAL
4. Alaska volcano erupts,
flights canceled for ash
WILLOW, Alaska — Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years.
Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust was failing Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage. The ash began falling around daybreak and continued into midmorning. They were supposed to end by noon.
Alaska Airlines on Monday canceled 19 flights in and out of the Anchorage international airport because of the ash.
5. Students get day off class to help secure river
FARGO, N.D. — High school and college students were let out of class Monday to help with sandbagging as residents raced to hold off a threat of flooding from the rising Red River.
City officials planned to fill more than 1 million sandbags, but with more rain forecast they increased the need to nearly 2 million sandbags — about 500,000 each day by the end of the week.
6. Defense presents its case for abortion doctor
WICHITA, Kan. — The defense in the trial of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers says the Kansas Board of Healing Arts approved of his relationship with a referring physician.
Dr. George Tiller is charged with 19 misdemeanors alleging he failed to obtain a second opinion for late-term abortions from an independent physician, as required by Kansas law.
Defense attorney Dan Monnaat told jurors in opening statements Monday that board former director Larry Buening first suggested to Tiller that he get Dr. Kristen Neuhaus for that second opinion. He also says Tiller's attorneys told him it was legal.
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RESEARCH New autism study center to hold open house today
The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (K-CART) gives parents, teachers and professionals a resource for learning
A new center for autism research and training opens its doors at the Edwards Campus today for an open house from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
about children and adults with autism.
Debra Kamps, director of K-CART, said the center has books, DVDs and printed documents for children with autism.
"Some are related to teaching social skills and some are related to teaching language," Kamps said.
The center will also have a list of therapists and resources for parents who have children with autism. The earlier a child can
receive therapy, the better, Kamps said.
"Often children with autism do not develop a language as quickly as children without autism and they need therapy and sometimes hours of intervention to teach them language and how to interact with parents and siblings."
University Provost Richard Lariviere and Barbara Atkinson, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical
Center, allocated funds from their budgets to support K-CART
"That's a commitment from them and they believe this is an important investment for the community," Kamps said.
The center is located in 270 Regnier Hall at 12600 Quivira Road in Overland Park and is open on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
— Michelle Sprehe
STATE
Bill allows one day per month to honor militar
TOPEKA — A bill to allow the governor to honor Kansans killed in combat is a step closer to becoming law.
Senators gave tentative approval to a bill Monday that would allow the governor to designate one day a month to honor men and women from Kansas killed in combat. Approval sends the measure to the House for consideration.
The lowering would be in honor of those in the military who were killed in the previous month.The honor applies to Kansans on active duty or members of the Kansas National Guard.
The bill doesn't specify which day each month the governor should order flags lowered across Kansas, following a federal law against such a practice. However, the bill suggests the first Thursday of the month.
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled last year that the state's use of the electric chair was unconstitutional. Some people in McCook — population just under 8,000 — think "Old Sparky" could be a tourist attraction and have offered to take it off the state's hands.
ODD NEWS Group thinks old electric chair may spark tourism
LINCOLN, Neb. — Residents of a small southwest Nebraska town have a question for state officials: You're not doing anything with that old electric chair, are you?
Fifteen men were executed in the chair, which is about 210 miles east of McCook at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln.
Corrections department spokeswoman Connie Nemec says there are no immediate plans to move the chair.
New York state lottery officials said Monday the winner is from Wyandanch, on Long Island. The identity of the El Salvador native was not revealed.
NEW YORK — ignoring his friends has paid off big for a New York man.
He won $26 million in a Friday the 13th lottery draw.
Officials said the man didn't heed the warnings of well-meaning friends who told him to stay away from the lottery on Friday the 13th.
New Yorker wins lottery on the unluckiest of days
WEATHER Blizzard closes Mount Rushmore National Park
one mountainous area might get as much as 40 inches of snow.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial closed because of the icy, blinding weather in South Dakota's rugged Black Hills. Temperatures plummeted as the storm moved eastward and wind gusted to more than 60 mph.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009
The weather service said accumulated of up to 20 inches were possible in parts of Wyoming and northwest South Dakota, but 30 to 40 inches was possible in the northern Black Hills, where Rapid City, S.D., recorded a 63 mph gust
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A blizzard shut down major highways Monday in Wyoming and South Dakota, and meteorologists said
"To give you an idea of the storm's intensity, it's 28 degrees at the Rapid City airport and 64 at Winner (S.D.). That's a distance of 170 miles," Susan Sander of the weather service said at mid-afternoon in Rapid City. Just 24 hours earlier, Rapid City had measured a record high of 77 degrees.
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The "Copyright and Fair Use:
An Overview" workshop will begin at 3 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library
ON CAMPUS
The "Dreamweaver: Getting Started" workshop will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The "Obama's First 100 Days" study group will begin at 4 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The University Senate Executive Committee Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room in Strong Hall.
The "Success is Seldom Permanent, Neither is Failure: 25 specific things to help you in life and business" lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Lied Center.
The "In Search of American Music: The Music of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber" seminar will begin at 7 p.m. in The Town Hall in Brandon Woods Retirement Community.
The "EndNote: Power Hour" workshop will begin at 5 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The Undergraduate Honors Recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
ON THE RECORD
Bambino's Restaurant, 1801 Massachusetts St., reported a left of an upright commercial freezer at a loss of $1,800 on Friday, Lawrence Police reported.
Criminal damage of a car parked at the chancellor's guest house was reported Sunday. The damage resulted in a loss of $100, campus police reported.
The "Global Partners for Local Organic Food: Connecting the U.S. and Japan through Kansas and Saitama" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
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Cole Aldrich's triple-double was the first since Kansas began recording blocks and assists in 1986. It is only the sixth in NCAA tourney history and only the second including points, rebounds and blocks. Shaquille O'Neal had one in the 1992 tourney, two years after his LSU team was upset by Kansas in a preseason tournament.
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