NEWS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2006
4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Self on, Williams off
Jared Gab/KANSAN
Bud Stallworth, former KU and All-American basketball player, signs Mark Stallard's book "Tales from the Jayhawks Hardwood," Saturday at Oread Books inside the Kansas Union. Stallworth wrote the foreword, which was updated to "Include coach Bill Self and get Roy Williams off the cover."
NATION
Cheney shoots hunting partner
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunda
after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property's owner.
Armstrong said Whittington, 78, was mostly injured on his right side during the incident which occurred late afternoon on Saturday.
The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The vice president's office did not disclose the accident until nearly 24 hours after it happened.
The Associated Press
WEATHER
Record snowfall leaves Northeast cold
Jessica Hill/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By KAREN MATTHEWS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A record-breaking storm buried sections of the Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow on Sunday, marooning thousands of air travelers and making even a walk to the corner store treacherous.
The National Weather Service said 26.9 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, the most since record-keeping started in 1869. The old record was 26.4 inches in December 1947.
Wind gusting as high as 60 mph blew the snow sideways and raised a risk of coastal flooding in New England. And in a rare display, lightning lit up the falling snow before dawn in the New York and Philadelphia areas, producing muffled winter thunder.
"We might not see anything like this again in our lifetime," Jason Rosenfarb said as he walked with his 5-year-old daughter Haley in Central Park. Just then Haley jumped head first into the snow and said: "Help me out. There's too much snow."
Elsewhere, 21 inches of snow fell at Columbia, Md., between Baltimore and Washington, and at East Brunswick, N.J., Hartford, Conn., and West Caln Township west of Philadelphia, the national Weather Service said. Philadelphia's average for an entire winter is about 21 inches.
The storm came on the heels of an unusually mild January that had people shedding jackets and ski resorts lamenting lost business.
"It's going to be a menace trying to clean it up," said Mayor Scott T. Rumana in Wayne, N.J. New York officials said snow removal costs the city about $1
"It's sort of crazy because it was so warm a couple of weeks ago and now we have knee-deep snow," said Skye Drynan, walking her dogs Bella and Forest in lower Manhattan.
A dog named Ken peeks up above the snow at River Meadow Farm in Windsor, Conn., Sunday. A major storm slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast states on Sunday with nearly 2 feet of windblown snow, nearing record levels as it blackout out thousands of customers and shut down air travel from Washington to Boston. million per inch ington Philadelphia Boston
However, the storm's arrival during the weekend meant more people were staying at home instead of truing to drive to work.
Churches canceled services and the Philadelphia Phantoms, a minor league hockey team, postponed Sunday's game because the team couldn't get home from Chicago.
The possibility of coastal flooding was a major concern for Massachusetts as wind hit 60 mph, said Peter Judge, spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency. Meteorologists predicted 2 1/2-foot storm surges from Cape Ann to Cape Cod with seas off the coast running up to 25 feet.
Delta Air Lines canceled arrivals and departures at Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Providence, R.I., and Hartford, Conn.
The storm closed all three of the New York metropolitan area's major airports, and airlines canceled more than 500 inbound and departing flights 200 each at LaGuardia and Newark airports and 120 at Kennedy.
The airport closures and grounded planes stranded travelers elsewhere across the country.
"We've been playing cards for two hours. We expect to play a lot more cards," Cliff Jefferson said about nine hours into his stay at the Miami airport.
About 7,500 people were stuck just at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, spokesman Steve Belleme said.
More than 85,000 homes and businesses were blacked out in Maryland, according to
Service in and out of New York's Pennsylvania Station on the Long Island Rail Road was canceled, and Metro North rail service to the northern suburbs was curtailed. New Jersey Transit suspended all bus service statewide. Amtrak reported a few cancelations and delays in the Northeast Corridor but said most trains remained in service.
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. spokeswoman Linda Foy. More than 60,000 customers were reported in the dark in northern Virginia, and thousands more lost power in parts of Delaware, New Jersey and on New York's Long Island. Temperatures were mostly in the 20s.
Still, many people took the storm in stride, in spite of drifts that made sidewalks tortuous if not impassable.
Lynda Carpentero didn't let the snow keep her away from yoga class at a neighborhood gym in Brooklyn.
"We were afraid we would fall on our heads before we stood on them." Carpenter said.
Intrepid customers even insisted on going out for everyday essentials.
"I love it. It's like Christmas," said John Eaton, who went to Chubby's Deli in suburban Eastchester for his Sunday newspapers and coffee, before returning home to hunker down for the day.
Presidential Lecture Series 2006: THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT
Tuesday, Feb14 7:30 p.m. at DIP
WHAT WOMEN REALLY WANT...
Celinda Lake (left) & Kellyanne Conway (right)
co-authors of What Women Really Want...
~ Book Signing will follow Lecture
Nationally-known pollsters identify trends
women are creating that will
change our society and our politics.
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57th Annual
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