2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1,2002
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NATION
Baton Rouge police charge sniper suspects
BATON ROUGE, La. — Authorities charged the two sniper suspects with murder yesterday in a Louisiana attack that came just two days after a similar slaying in Alabama.
shying in Alabama John Lee Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, are now charged with a month-long series of killings stretching from the Gulf Coast to the suburbs around the nation's capital.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Pat Englade issued first-degree murder warrants for Muhammad and Malvo after ballistics tests matched the rifle used in the sniper shootings to the Sept. 23 slaying and robbery of a beauty shop worker in the Louisiana capital.
SEC will investigate chairman Harvey Pitt
WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered an investigation yesterday into allegations that Chairman Harvey Pitt concealed from commissioners information on the corporate ties of William Webster, his choice to head a new accounting oversight board.
The disclosure once again thrusts Pitt in the middle of a political maelstrom, even as the Bush administration seeks to restore investor and consumer confidence in the roller-coaster markets just days before the midterm elections.
Publicly, the administration strongly backed Pitt.
"Chairman Pitt has done a good job in cracking down on corporate wrongdoing and the SEC has a very strong record under his leadership," said White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan. "We support him."
At the same time, White House spokesman Scott McClellan acknowledge edged, "We don't have all the facts."
Minnesota will mail new absentee ballots
ST, PAUL, Minn. — In a partial victory for the Democrats, Minnesota's
Supreme Court ordered local election officials yesterday to send out new absentee ballots to people who ask to change their Senate vote in the wake of Sen. Paul Wellstone's death.
The ruling fell well short of what the Democrats wanted: throwing out all absentee votes already cast and mailing new ballots to everyone whether they asked for a new one or not.
The decision came after former Vice President Walter Mondale kicked off a lightning five-day campaign against Republican Norm Coleman as the Democrats' last-minute stand-in for Wellstone, who was killed in a plane crash last week while locked in a tight re-election race vital to control of the Senate.
NATION
Daycare demolished in Italy's earthquake
SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy —
an earthquake jolted south-central
Italy on yesterday, sending a nursery
school roof crashing down on a class
of preschoolers during a lunchtime
Halloween party.
At least 10 children in the school and two women in nearby homes were killed.
Driven on by faint voices coming from the rubble, frantic rescuers worked into the night to save more than a dozen children who remained trapped after the 5.4 magnitude quake struck the Molise region, shaking the town of Campobasso and surrounding villages northeast of Naples.
Workers guided by flashlights and floodlights carried six dust-covered children and a teacher from the rubble after night fell.
They were sent to nearby hospitals.
So far, 26 children and three teachers have been rescued.
Italian news reports said about 20 children and one adult remained in the rubble 12 hours after the quake struck.
The Associated Press
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Free State High School student Hike Herrera turns the lights on at the Centenial State park at 6th and Rockledge streets for a night session. The lights were turned off by the city because of vandalism to the park.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student told the Lawrence Police Department that someone took her Coach purse, Nokia cellular phone and her driver's license between 8 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Tuesday from her car in the parking lot at Lawrence Athletic Club, 3201 Mesa Way, according to reports. The items
were valued at $230.
A 21-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took her Sony Discman and KUID between 8 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. Tuesday from her car in the parking lot at Lawrence Athletic Club, according to reports.
Lawrence police that someone took her brown women's purse and its contents between 2 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., according to reports. The purse and its contents were valued at $35.
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Hall Center for the Humanities will present the Nature and Culture Seminar "Gender Transformed: Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment" from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.today at the conference room in the Hall Center. Contact the center at 864-4798.
St. John Catholic Apostolic Church will perform All Saints Day Mass from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. tonight in Danforth Chapel. It will also have mass at 6 p.m. tomorrow night and noon Sunday in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building. Contact Father Joseph Tung Dang at 843-4933.
Student Union Activities will present musician Nathan Meckel at 7 tonight at the Hawks Nest on level 1 in the Kansas Union. Contact the SUA at 864-7469.
Lawrence Life Fellowship will host a Bible study from 7 p.m.to 8:30 p.m.tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Zach Keatts at 838-9093.
Spencer Museum of Art will open the exhibition "Wrapped Words:
Handmade Books from Cub's Ediciones Vigia" tomorrow at the White Gallery in the museum. It will run through Dec. 15. Contact the museum at 864-4710.
Hawks for Health will hold the 5K run/walk to benefit breast cancer research starting at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow start in the parking lot near the Lied Center. Register at hawks4health@ku.edu or call 864-4073.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the St.
Lawrence Catholic Campus Center Contact Hannah Reynolds at 812-3422.
KU Ki Aikido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
Center of Latin American Studies will show the film Port-au-Prince is Mine at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art. Contact the center at 864-4213.
Spencer Museum of Art will present a musical performance by Camerata Lawrence at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the central court in the museum. Contact the museum at 864-4710.
Contact the team
■ KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Samtha Nondorf at 218-3544.
Et Cetera
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