WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2005
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Several Lawrence groups are hosting their fifth annual Labor Day celebration on Monday, Sept. 5, from 2 to 5 p.m. at South Park, 12th and Massachusetts Streets. The event will feature free ice cream, music, juggling, a raffle and short speeches from sponsors. The groups hosting the event include the League of Women Voters, Kaw Valley Living Wage Alliance, Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, Progressive Lawrence Campaign, Kansas Mutual Aid and Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition.
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A 21-year-old KU student reported a $2,000 Gateway Notebook stolen sometime between 3 and 8 a.m. Aug.
28 on the 2900 block of University Drive.
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A 42- and 21-year-old, both KU students, and a 43-year-old reported $1,210 in damage to a fence and in lost valuables from vehicles sometime between 6 p.m. Aug. 27 and 10 a.m. Aug. 28 on the 2100 block of W. 29th Terrace.
- Someone reported $300 in gas released from a propane tank sometime between 1 a.m. Aug. 27 and 2:20 a.m. Aug. 28 around Hashinger Hall.
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- A 33-year-old reported $960 in power tools stolen sometime between 3 p.m. Aug.
26 and 7:20 a.m. Aug. 29 around Hashinger Hall.
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♦A 20-year-old KU student reported a $300 cell phone stolen sometime between midnight and 1 p.m. Aug. 21 on the 1400 block of Apple Lane.
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CITY
Condos may cause problem for bar
The Bottleneck has long been a staple of Lawrence nightlife and the live music scene, but high-end commercial and residential apartments under construction across the street may create a conflict.
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Once residents move in they may take issue with the noise generated by Last Call, 729 New Hampshire, and The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire.
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Property value might increase in the area because of the new lofts, making it hard for other businesses to keep up with the cost of maintaining business there.
Patrons worried about the lack of parking because it was limited already, and thought residents moving in will be taking up the few spaces available.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Aly Barland
Postal Service honors court decision on latest stamps
United States Postal Service employee Larry Dreher, left, puts a cancellation stamp on the new Brown v. Board of Education stamp for Amy Bixler Kelly, of Lawrenceenon yesterday after the unveiling of the new stamps commemorating the nation's civil rights movement at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA - With several hundred people watching outside a building that once was part of a segregated school system, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled new stamps commemorating the civil rights movement.
Also honored is the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional, and for that reason, the Postal Service had one of six ceremonies in a tent outside the national historic site dedicated to Brown v. Board of Education.
The 10 stamps recall events from President Truman's 1948 order integrating the armed forces to congressional approval of legislation protecting blacks' voting rights in 1965.
The building once was Monroe School, one of four allblack elementary schools in the city.
About 100 fifth-graders from the nearby Williams Fine Arts and Sciences Magnet School built a decade ago to satisfy continuing litigation over
Topeka's schools — formed a choir and wore multicolored T-shirts. One song, borrowed from "School House Rock" of children's television, was the preamble of the U.S. Constitution set to music.
The new stamps pleased Zelma Henderson, who as the mother of two young children
joined 12 other parents, including the Rev. Oliver L. Brown, as plaintiffs in a 1951 lawsuit challenging Topeka's segregated schools.
"I think we all need reminders of what some of our people went through," said Henderson, now 85, the last living parents who filed that lawsuit.
Police announce meth busts
CRIME
BY MARK SHERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — When police visited an assisted-living facility near Pittsburgh they found employees cooking more than just the evening meal — authorities seized a lab used to make mamphetamine.
Police also made two of the more than 400 arrests that were part of the first nationally coordinated operation aimed at producers and sellers of the highly addictive drug.
Authorities announced yesterday the results of Operation Wildfire, a cooperative effort among police in more than 200 cities and the Drug Enforcement Administration. More than 200 pounds of the drug and 56 labs were seized.
Eight counties in rural western North Carolina accounted for 70 of the 427 arrests made nationwide.
Two elderly residents of the assisted-living facility in Donora, Pa., had to be hospitalized for exposure to toxic chemicals from the meth lab, DEA administrator Karen Tandy said. In Minneapolis, drug agents and police seized a lab in a hotel that is across the street from an elementary school, Tandy said.
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"It's homemade, cheap and readily available," Tandy said, noting that after starting in the West, meth
has been found in every state.
Authorities also took custody of 30 children, including two in Missouri who were living in a bug-infested home where meth was being produced, she said.
The arrests followed intense criticism from members of Congress and local law enforcement that the federal government is not doing enough to combat the use of methamphetamine. More than half the 500 shefflets in a recent survey called meth their top problem, far surpassing cocaine and marijuana.
Local officials applauded the results announced yesterday, calling them good first steps. But the administration has proposed eliminating $804 million in grants to local authorities for drug-fighting efforts, said Joe Dunn, assistant legislative director for the National Association of Counties.
Methamphetamine, which can come in the form of a crystal-like powder or rocklike chunks, is an addictive stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, injected or taken orally. Its street names include "ice," "cristal" "speed" and "tina."
"We'd like them to reverse that decision," Dunn said, noting that Congress appears likely to restore at least $400 million.
At least 12 million people have tried meth, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Authorities have dismantled more than 50,000 clandestine meth labs since 2001.
ing stores to remove medicines containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine from shelves.
Far more people use marijana, but Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently said that meth has overtaken marijuana as the greatest danger to children.
Meth can be made using ingredients in over-the-counter cold medicines, prompting a dozen states to pass laws fore-
Gonzales has led an administration-wide effort to respond to those who say that the meth problem was being ignored until recently. Tandy and McGregor Scott, the U.S. attorney in Sacramento, Calif., recited lengthy lists of law enforcement actions and prosecutions aimed at meth.
U. S. officials also are working with Mexicans to try to control shipments from other countries of pseudoephedrine and other raw materials used in meth, Tandy said.
The DEA also unveiled an anti-meth Web site aimed at teens, www.justthinktwice.com.
The Bush administration earlier this month announced a training laboratory for police agencies and $16.2 million in grants to focus on treatment of meth addicts.
Recap of 2005 Kemper Awards recipients
Stephen Egbert, associate professor of geography
David Katzman, professor of American Studies
Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005
Janet Hamburg, professor of music and dance
Janet Hamburg, professor of music and dance
David Katzenmeyer, professor of American Studies
David Petr, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
- Chuck Marsh, associate professor of journalism
- Jim Orr, professor of molecular biosciences and chairman of the Division of Biological Sciences
Friday. Aug. 19,2005
James Sherman, professor of applied behavioral sciences
Bangere Purnaprajna, associate professor of mathematics
- Lorin Maletsky, associate professor of mechanical
- Dave Besson, professor of physics
- Ted Juhl, professor of economics
- Dave Besson, professor of physics
- Nancy Baym, associate professor of communication studies
Monday, Aug. 22, 2005
Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005
◆ Edward Scanlon, associate professor of social welfare
◆ James Hartman, professor of English
- Greg Simpson, professor of psychology and acting assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005
- Scott Moser, associate professor of family and community medicine.
- Medicine Amy McNair, associate professor of art history
- Randy H. Lee, associate professor of health policy and
* Robert H. Lee, associate professor of health policy and
- Don Haider-Markel, associate professor of political science
- Cynthia Teel, associate professor of nursing
— Gaby Souza
COURTS
Man pleads not guilty in rape of 14-year-old
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LINCOLN, Neb. — A 22-year-old man accused of impregnating then marrying a 14-year-old girl pleaded not guilty yesterday to raping her.
Matthew Koso was arraigned in Richardson County District Court, where he is charged with first-degree sexual assault, punishable by up to 50 years in prison.
The girl, Crystal Koso, gave birth Aug. 24 to a 7-pound, 1-ounce girl. Samara.
Nebraska requires people to be at least 17 before they can marry.
But after the girl became pregnant, her mother gave permission in May for Koso to take her daughter to Kansas, which allows younger minors to get married with parental consent.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius recently said she was asking legislators to establish a minimum age for marriage. She said the age should be 16, 17 or 18, "so we don't, after the fact, cover un abuse of children."
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said again yesterday that additional charges
Bruning acknowledged that he has received a "significant" amount of mail from the public saying he should leave the couple alone.
"But this is not a job we do to win popularity points," Bruning said. "I was elected to enforce the law. And anytime a grown man has sex with a child, it's not a close call for me."
A Falls City Police investigator testified earlier that the case began last May when the state Health and Human Services System asked the department to look into a report that the girl might be pregnant.
Kosso's trial date was set for Oct. 13.
Bruning said that Koso is a friend of the girl's half brother and began a relationship with her when she was 12.
"Our investigation's continuing," he said. "Obviously, it is dependent on very young girls telling us that they had sexual relations with Mr. Koso, which is not an easy fact to elicit from a very young girl."
Koso's lawyer, Willis Yoesel,
did not immediately return a call
to his office seeking comment.
against Koso involving other young girls are possible.
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