8A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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NEWS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006
Fishing for trash
Megan True/KANSAN
Chris Cording, Hebron Neb., sophomore, pulls trash out of Potter's Lake Monday afternoon. Cording says when the weather is nice he tries to go down and pick up trash. Some of the items he has found include baseball caps, shoes, T-shirts and several pairs of underwear — that's why he carries a stick.
'Da Vinci Code' lawsuit could delay film release
LONDON — It's the latest twist for the mega-selling conspiracy thriller "The Da Vinci Code": a lawsuit against the book's publisher for breach of copyright that could taint the novel and delay the much-anticipated movie version.
BY DAVID STRINGER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
If the writers succeed in securing an injunction to bar the use of their material, they could hold up the scheduled May 19 release of "The Da Vinci Code" film, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard.
Sony Pictures said it planned to release the film as scheduled.
senior vice president of corporate communications at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Both books hinge on the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and they had a child, and that their blood line survives to this day.
"This lawsuit is not about the movie, and we are proceeding with our plans," said Jim Kelly.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the 1982 nonfiction book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," are suing publisher Random House, Inc. over the allegation that parts of their work formed the basis of Dan Brown's novel, which has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and remains high on best seller lists nearly three years after publication.
Phrases used in both books to describe arguments that Jesus had been married showed similarities, James said.
Thieves steal record amount
A fifth man was arrested and released on bail, as were six suspects detained earlier.
Leppard told reporters that four men had been arrested in south London and adjoining Kent county in the previous 24 hours and were being questioned in connection with the robbery.
Wednesday's robbery in Tonbridge, 30 miles southeast of London, elapsed the $50 million — or about 26 million pounds — stolen from the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in December 2004. Authorities suspect an organized crime gang in the Tonbridge heist, and the outlawed Irish Republican Army in the Belfast robbery.
BY JILL LAWLESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WORLD
Warehouse owner Securitas Cash Management Ltd. confirmed the amount stolen - 53 million pounds - after an audit, said Adrian Leppard, assistant chief constable of Kent Police.
LONDON — A new audit showed thieves stole the equivalent of about $92 million during last week's heist at a southeast England cash depot, police said Monday, describing the second-largest cash theft in recent history.
The haul was second only to the looting of Iraq's central bank during the U.S.-led invasion. Still, it was the biggest cash theft in British history.
Both raids were dwarfed by
the wartime theft of $900 million in U.S. bills, and as much as $100 million worth of euros from the Iraq Central Bank in 2003.
Leppard said he was "pleased with progress and ... confident that we will catch those responsible."
The police looking for the robbers have recovered a van containing weapons and the equivalent of $2.3 million in cash. The dumped money was found in black sacks Friday in a van parked outside a hotel near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel linking England and France. The hotel is about 10 miles from the site of the robbery.
The thieves, who dressed as police officers, stopped Securitas manager Colin Dixon, 51, as he drove home from the cash deposit, police said.
A second group — also dressed as officers — went to Dixon's home, told his wife, Lynn, 45, that he had been in an accident and took her away along with their 9-year-old son.
Family members were threatened by the thieves but released unhurt once the raid was over, police said.
The depot, a single-floored, windowless building, is near the center of Tonbridge. It is surrounded by 6-foot-high steel fencing, and security cameras cover every entrance. Steel traps are in place to prevent unwanted vehicles from entering the compound.
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