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CORRECTION
Thursday's article "More people taking city, KU buses" misstated the addition of services by the T. The T has added 150 days of service.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
INTERNATIONAL 1. Man sentenced to 12 years for killing in-laws
VIENNA — An Austrian court has convicted a man for killing his in-laws by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower.
The court in the southern city of Graz sentenced the 49-year-old, who was not identified by name, to 12 years in prison for the October 2008 incident.
The woman burned to death in her bed, while her husband's body was found on a bench outside their home in the village of St. Magdalena am Lemberg. The woman's lower legs had been amputated because pf diabetes-related complications. Both victims were 84.
2. Wrongly convicted woman freed on appeal
MEXICO CITY — An Indian market vendor who was wrongly convicted of kidnapping and spent three years in prison deserves compensation for the time she was locked away, Amnesty International said Thursday.
"Nothing will replace the three years she lost, but it is vital that those responsible for this injustice be brought before justice, and that she receive an appropriate compensation," said Kerrie Howard, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Americas.
Jacinta Francisco Marcial, whose kidnapping conviction sparked an international protest, walked out of prison Wednesday after authorities decided not to contest an appeal of her 21-year sentence.
3. Environmental journalists face threats
"In many countries ... journalists who specialize in the environment are on the front line of a new war," the Paris-based group said.
PARIS — Journalists face increasing threats when they report on companies and governments damaging the environment, a media rights group said Thursday, citing arrests, violence and disappearances of those who denounce deforestation, pollution and other damage.
These pressures show that ecological issues "have assumed an enormous political and geostrategic importance," the Reporters Without Borders advocacy group said in a report published Thursday.
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4. Receding Arctic ice results in walrus deaths
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Federal wildlife researchers report that up to 200 dead walruses were spotted from the air along the northwest coast of Alaska.
Researchers spotted 100 to 200 carcasses near lcy Cape, which juts into the Chukchi Sea about 140 miles southwest of Barrow.
For the second time in three years, thousands of walruses have congregated on the northwest coast as Arctic sea ice has receded beyond the shallow continental shelf, where the animals dive for clams and other food.
5. Impaled woman recovering after surgery
KAMIAH, Idaho — An Idaho woman who was skewered in the neck by a tree limb while driving with her husband along the Lochsa River is recovering.
KHQ-TV reports 20-yearold Michelle Childers and her husband, Daniel, were taking a recreational drive on a rural road Sept. 5 when a spruce tree crashed through the passenger side window of the vehicle.
Childers says she then felt a "strange" pressure on her neck and shoulder. Her husband told her that the tree limb had impaled her.
The couple drove to the Lochsa Lodge near the Idaho-Montana border to call for help and was flown by helicopter to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont.
Childers says the 13-inch tree limb was removed from her neck during a six-hour surgery.
LOS ANGELES — A woman has pleaded not guilty to killing her two daughters by slashing their throats in their Los Angeles house.
6. Woman pleads not guilty to killing children
Antonia Gomez entered her plea Thursday to two counts of murder and is eligible for the death penalty if convicted. She's being held without bail.
Prosecutors say Gomez stabbed her daughters, ages 11 and 17, on Sept.2 before cutting her own arms.
The case is one of several this month in Southern California in which six children were stabbed, four of them fatally.
Associated Press
KANSASCITIES
Hugoton
BY RACHEL SCHWARTZ
rschwartz@kansan.com
Distance from Lawrence: Six hours and 32 minutes or 396.32 miles
City: Hugoton
Nickname: Hugo
County: Stevens County
Location: Southwest Kansas
Founded: 1885
Population
(2004 estimate): 3,722
Destinations: Shady Lane
Bed & Breakfast, Hugoton
Municipal Golf Course, Annie's [Restaurant], Ranchito Tex-Mex Cafe, Stevens County Library, Stevens Gas & Historical Museum, Dirtona Raceway, Hugoton Municipal Swimming Pool, Hugoton City Park, Parsons Park, Everett Rowden Park
Interesting Fact: The Hugoton Hermes is the main newspaper in Hugoton; it published its first issue on Aug. 12, 1887.
Edited by Megan Morriss
WHAT DID YOU DO FOR FUN IN HUGOTON?
"We drove around in a pointless L-shape wasting gas and avoiding the crappy radio stations."
CATHERINE LOSEY Freshman
【[You] just hang out with your friends because there's nothing to do really. ... We have to go to Oklahoma to see a good movie."
SAVANNAH THOMAS Sophomore
JESSICA LULF Junior
"We hung out at other people's houses trying to figure out something to do most of the time."
ON CAMPUS
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The Friday Fall Fellowship Brown Bag Lunch Series will begin at noon in the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
The "Environmental Governance as a Development Strategy in the Amazon: The Case of Lucas do Rio Verde Legal" lecture will begin at noon in 210 Lindley Hall.
Tunes at Noon will begin at noon in the Kansas Union Plaza.
The Space & Astrophysical Plasma Seminar will begin at 1 p.m. in 3078 Malott Hall.
The "Total Synthesis of Pho-
mactin A" seminar will begin at
3:30 p.m. in 1001 Maltt Hall.
The "Reading Funny Faulkner" seminar will begin at 2 p.m. in the Continuing Education building.
ON THE RECORD
At 5 a.m. Sunday near 13th and Ohio streets, a University student reported that his vehicle had been stolen, at a loss of $11,000.
At 2:23 a.m. Monday near 18th and Ohio streets, a University student reported that her personal checks and a GPS had been stolen, at a total loss of $200.
At 10:49 a.m. Tuesday near McColum Hall, someone reported that the side mirror on their vehicle was damaged, at a loss of $100.
At 2:55 p.m.Wednesday near Wescoe Hall,someone reported that their moped was damaged,at a loss of $400.
At 4:07 p.m. Wednesday near Summerfield Hall, someone reported that their cell phone was stolen, at a loss of $400.
At 4:04 p.m. Wednesday near Oliver Hall, someone reported that their bicycle was stolen, at a loss of $420.
Windows of Oppression is an exhibit that will encourage thought and empathy about global oppression. It is going on next Monday and Tuesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center.
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