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LAWRENCE FORECAST
Forecaster: Mike Robinson KU atmospheric science student
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 2011
Wednesday
HI: 50 Clear skies, A high of 44. N
L0: 30 wind at 15-20 mph, gusting
to over 30 mph at times.
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Thursday
HI: 45
Partly cloudy with a high of 45 degrees. Wind from the north at 10-15 mph.
L0: 22
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Soak up the sunshine.
Friday
HI: 39 Mostly sunny skies.
LO: 23 South winds at 5-10 mph. High of 39.
Practically hot.
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HI: 44
LO: 27
Switch to sweaters
Saturday
Partly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Potential for freezing rain.
Stay inside
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ROCKY HILL, CONN.
A trio of wealth managers from Greenwich, one of the most affluent towns in America, claimed a Powerball jackpot worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars Monday off a $1 ticket.
Greg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson came forward as the winners of the $254.2 million jackpot and the trustees of The Putnam Avenue Family Trust, which they formed to help manage the money after Davidson bought the winning ticket at a Stanford gas station.
A lawyer who spoke for the group said they contacted him immediately after the Nov. 2 drawing and came forward after making plans for the money. He said the trust will take the after-tax lump sum of $103,586,824.51 cash and a significant amount will go to charity.
CARACAS, VENEZUELA
A top Colombian drug trafficker, reputedly responsible for shipping tons of cocaine to the United States through Central America and Mexico, has been captured in Venezuela, officials said Monday.
The U.S. had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, also known as "Valenciano," who was also on Colombia's most-wanted list.
Colombian authorities told The Associated Press that Bonilla was captured Sunday.
Sima was captured Sunday. The information was later confirmed by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who was in Venezuela meeting with President Hugo Chavez.
KINSHASA, CONGO
Voting materials arrived late or sometimes not at all in precincts throughout Congo Monday, but elections went ahead, raising doubts about the legitimacy of a poll that already has seen at least nine people killed and could drag this enormous nation in the heart of Africa back into conflict.
Country experts and opposition leaders had urged the government to delay the vote due to massive logistical problems. Some districts of Congo, which has suffered decades of dictatorship and two civil wars, are so remote that ballot boxes had to be transported across muddy trails on the heads of porters, and by dugout canoe across churning rivers.
Violence over the weekend left at least four people dead.
ISLAMABAD
The NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers lasted almost two hours and continued even after commanders at the bases pleaded with coalition forces to stop. Pakistan's military claimed Monday, charges that could further inflame anger in Pakistan.
NATO has described the incident as "tragic and unintended" and has promised a full investigation.
Unnamed Afghan officials have said that Afghan commandos and U.S. special forces were conducting a mission on the Afghan side of the border and took incoming fire from the direction of the Pakistani posts.
They responded with airstrikes
CAMPUS
Research library's renovation is complete
The Kenneth Spencer Research Library will open a new reading room Tuesday, after 10 months of planning and construction, according to a University press release. The library's collection is not open for circulation, so the reading room is the central area for patrons. The new space, called the Marilyn Stokstad Reading Room, is designed to accommodate more patrons and includes a separate room
for study groups. Other improvements address emergency exits, noise control, enhanced security, new flooring, upgraded wiring, lighting and more power outlets. Stokstad, a professor of art history, funded the reading room with a $250,000 donation to KU Endowment in January, 2010. Stokstad's gift counted toward Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas, a university fund raising campaign scheduled to have a public kickoff in April 2012.
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ODD NEWS
Pot distributor now a free man
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As state and federal investigators came through the front door of a barn in Minnesota during a bust of the "Cornbread Mafia" in October 1987, Les Berry Jr. went out the back with six others and nearly escaped — captured the next day in Wisconsin. Now after a conviction and prison time, his slate has been wiped clean by a presidential pardon this month.
The Loretto, Ky., man pleaded guilty in 1988 to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana and serve three years in federal prison for playing a bit part in what federal prosecutors described as one of the largest domestic marijuana syndicates in the country.
Berry, a one-time associate of 68-year-old Johnny Boone, a fugitive known as the "Godfather of Grass" and the "King of Pot," is now free of the legal taint carried by a criminal conviction. President Barack Obama pardoned Berry on Nov. 21, restoring his rights to vote and carry a firearm. No reason was given for granting the pardon.
Berry, 60 and declined to be interviewed about his pursuit and receipt of the pardon. But, the lead
"Fair is fair. The guy made a choice to commit a crime," said 63-year-old Phillip Wagner, who spent 16 years with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension before retiring in 2003. "Let the man get on with his life."
investigator in the "Cornbread Mafia" case said "I'm good with it" after Berry was pardoned.
But Wisconsin State Trooper Arden Asp, who arrested Berry after he fled the farm, said a pardon doesn't make any sense.
Berry, a former U.S. Marine, was a farm worker in west-central Minnesota for the "Cornbread Mafia" for about three weeks when the raid occurred. He slipped out of the barn and made his way to a small Minnesota town, bought a 1972 Chevy Impala and drove east with six others before being caught.
"I guess I'm rather surprised," Asp told The Associated Press.
Prosecutors said they found 48 tons of marijuana along with more than a dozen automatic and semi-automatic weapons and sophisticated alarms. The operation included a string of 29 farms in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin.
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