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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2009
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1. Avalanche kills 10 on Mount Zigana hiking trip
ANKARA, Turkey — An avalanche slammed into a group of Turkish hikers on a trip to a remote mountain plateau on Sunday, dragging them more than 1,640 feet (500 meters) into a valley and fatally burying 10.
The members of a skiing and mountaineering club were taking part in an annual winter sports celebration on 7,200-foot (2,200-meter) Mount Zigana. Seventeen were hiking single-file when the avalanche swept into them.
"We looked up and there was nowhere to run. The snow took us and dragged us along." 61-year-old Kasim Keles told reporters from his hospital bed.
2. Sri Lankan military corners rebels in jungle
their decade-long domination of the country's north.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan forces captured the Tamil Tigers' last major stronghold Sunday, confining the rebels to a narrow slice of jungle and ending
Army commander Lt Gen. Sarath Fonseka said the bloody ethnic separatist war that has plagued this Indian Ocean island nation since 1983 was nearly over.
3. Researchers find drugs floating in wastewater
PATANCHERU, India — When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.
—a soup of 21 active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease and other ailments, researchers say.
The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet.
The result: Some of India's poor are unwittingly consuming an array of chemicals that may be harmful.
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4. University to cut back on private plane flights
LAWRENCE — In another tough budget year, University of Kansas officials are considering cutting back on using their private air flights.
The university owns a Citation Bravo jet and has 50 percent ownership in a 1999 King Air C90B turbo prop through Executive AirShares, both purchased with private funds.
KU says it spends almost $700,000 per year to keep the aircraft going.
5. After two years, pastor sex scandal still ongoing
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — New Life Church will recover from new allegations in the 2-year-old sex scandal that brought down founder Ted Haggard, its pastor said Sunday.
Brady Boyd encouraged his Colorado Springs congregation and reminded them of their "holy tenacity," two days after revelations that a male church volunteer reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard.
It's the second such claim against Haggard. In late 2006, a male prostitute in Denver said he had a three-year cash-for-sex relationship with the former New Life pastor.
6. Gov. Blagojevich won't be at impeachment trial
SPRINGFIELD, III. — If there's such a thing as a "normal" impeachment trial, the one that starts Monday in Illinois doesn't qualify.
The defendant, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, won't participate. He'll be talking to Whoopi Goldberg and Larry King instead of facing the state Senate. And while the Democrat acknowledges his conviction is certain, he refuses to resign.
Blagoejevich (pronounced blah-GOY'-uh-vich) complains that the trial rules are unfair, but he and his lawyers didn't try to influence the rules as they were written or afterward.
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ODD NEWS Workers find $100,000 in tire on the side of road
MOUNT COMFORT, Ind. — Three state highway workers cleaning up litter picked up an abandoned tire — and found about $100,000 inside.
Indiana state police suspect the cash, in $5 to $100 bills, — may be drug money. State Police spokesman Mike Burns says a drug-sniffing dog found the scent of drugs on the bills.
NATCHEZ, Miss. — A Wal-Mart employee is accused of rolling back prices on about $550 worth of merchandise.
Police say the tire appeared to be from a large truck. It isn't clear how long it was in the ditch.
Police say 20-year-old Erica Marie Jones was arrested Thursday
Wal-Mart employee steals baby crib, coffee and beef
and charged with theft, along with 22-year-old customer Tiffany Williams.
Police say Jones charged Williams $5.25 for a load of merchandise that included jeans, a baby crib, laundry detergent, diapers, pizza, coffee and beef.
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What do you think? BY CLAYTON ASHLEY
ELENA BOETH
WHICH MOVIE DO YOU THINK SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED OR SHOULD WIN BEST PICTURE AT THE OSCARS THIS YEAR AND WHY?
Lawrence sopnomore "I really liked 'Changeling because (of) the story line, and I think the acting was really good."
Overland Park senior
"I'd say Gran Torino. It's really good story, and he did a good job. It’s kinda like 'Dirty Harry' with a conscience."
RYAN VANLANDINGHAM Overland Park senior
Bellville, Canada, grad student "I'm gonna say 'Slumdog Millionaire' because it's very inspirational."
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MOLLY SHIREMAN
Minnetonka freshman "I guess' Batman: The Dark Knight.' It had a lot of good actors in it, and Heath Ledger should be remembered. It was just a good movie."
The Blackboard Strategies and Tools workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The New Staff Orientation workshop will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The "Epistemological Shift in Contemporary American Fiction" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The KU Edwards Campus Welcome Week public event will begin at 4 p.m. in the Regents Center on the Edwards Campus.
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The Walking the Dream - Martin Luther King Program will begin at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
CRIME Portland mayor refuses to resign after sex, lies
Mayor Sam Adams publicly apologized this past week for lying early in his campaign about the relationship with an 18-year-old man in 2005.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The mayor of Portland, Ore., told city commissioners Sunday he will not resign despite calls for him to do so after he admitted he lied and asked a teenager to lie about their sexual relationship.
City Commissioner Randy Leonard told The Associated Press that Adams left him a phone message Sunday morning saying he had decided to remain in office.
Adams has found strong support to remain.
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CORRECTION
Freshman swimmer Abigail Anderson was misidentified as Abigail Adams in Friday's swimming and diving article "Arkansas narrowly defeats Jayhawks".
On Saturday, Sheron Collins became the 51 st men's basketball player to score 1,000 pts in his KU career. Over half the other 1,000 pt scorers have come to KU since the last national championship in 1988.
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