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NEWS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 2006
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Mike Zimmerman, Bettendorf, Iowa, senior, was leaving with his friends on the way home from a party. They attempted to drive down Massachusetts Street but were stopped by police who were closing off the crime scene to gather information, he said.
Zimmerman saw a man, whose face was badly bleeding, lying on his back in the street receiving CPR from another man. Zimmerman said that at first he had thought the man was injured in a fight, but then realized the man's injuries were much more serious.
"After watching the guy receive CPR, you could tell he was done." Zimmerman said.
The concert at The Granada was the opening tour date of Upset Records, a Midwest rap label. One of the label's artist, Doe, is from Topeka. Neither Doe or Upset Records could be reached Sunday for comment.
While Massachusetts Street is not known for gun violence, this is not the first time gun shots have been fired in this popular entertainment district.
In October of 2003, Jason A. Tremble, of Topeka, fired multiple shots into the sidewalk outside of It's Brothers Bar & Grill, 1105 Massachusetts St. According to a Lawrence Journal World article, the incident left 11 people injured.
The incident is the first gun-related death since the murder of 28-year-old Robert Tyrone Martin. Martin was shot to death at The Reserve, an apartment complex formerly known as Jefferson Commons, on April 4, 2004.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call the Lawrence Police Department Detective Division at 785-830-7430, or to remain anonymous, call the TIPS HOT-LINE at 785-843-TIPS (8477).
jonathan Kealing and Gabriella Souza contributed to this story. Edited by Janiece Gatson.
SCIENCE
Megan True/KANSAN
Alan Stern, a scientist who works with the New Horizons mission team, speaks Saturday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union about the recent satellite launch into space that will go to Pluto and beyond. KU graduate Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto, will become the first man to be launched into deep space because some of his ashes are inside a canister inside of the satellite. The satellite is expected to reach Pluto in 2015.
KU Grad finds names Pluto
In the years before the Great Depression, Clyde Tombaugh spent his days on a Kansas farm, working and teaching himself geometry and astronomy with a homemade telescope. When the farm began to suffer, Tombaugh began writing observatories with plans for a new telescope in hopes of pursuing his research.
Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., received Tombaugh's drawings at the same time it was planning to revive the late Percival Lowell's search for Planet X. Tombaugh spent the next year and a half at the observatory examining pairs of photographed plates, attempting to distinguish the planet from the thousands of moving objects.
"You look at these plates and realize how tedious the
job was," said Steele Wotkyns, public relations manager at Lowell Observatory.
Barbara Anthony-Twarog, professor of physics and astronomy, said Tombaugh had inspected more than 1,500 pairs of photographs as he searched for the new planet.
At 4 p.m. on Feb. 18, 1930, Tombaugh confirmed the existence of Planet X. The Lowell family suggested naming the planet "Percival," but the observatory held a contest that resulted in the name "Pluto." Stern said the Lowell family probably accepted this as a compromise: the first two letters of the name are the late Percival Lowell's initials.
Catherine Odson
OBITUARY
Former Kansas City Star editor, Royals fan, dies
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Kansas City Star editor, Joe McGuff, died Saturday night at his home, The Kansas City Star reported. He was 79.
McGuff, who is survived by his wife, Kay, and six adult children, may be best remembered for his role in bringing to Kansas City the expansion Royals baseball team in 1969, two years after Charles O. Finley moved the Athletics to Oakland.
McGuff began his career at The Kansas City Star in 1948 as a sports reporter. He later
ascended to sports columnist in 1966, and his columns became a fixture on the Kansas City sports scene for the next 20 years.
"He will criticize you, but in the kindest way possible," late Royals owner Ewing Kauffman once said of McGuff.
In 1986, McGuff was named editor and vice president of The Star and The Kansas City Times, and oversaw many of the newspapers' watershed moments, including the merger of the morning and afternoon newspapers. He retired from the newspaper in April 1992, the same month The
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Joe always put The Star's interests above his own, and Kansas City's interests above The Star's. He wanted the paper to improve our community, not bludgeon it."
Mark Zieman
Editor, The Kansas City Star.
Star won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
McGuff was elected to the Royals board of directors in 1994 and helped steer the
franchise through Kauffman's succession plan to David Glass' purchase of the team in 2000.
In 1999, McGuff was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was enshrined in the baseball writers wing of the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1985, the same year he threw out of the first pitch of game seven of the World Series. He also was a member of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
In all, McGuff covered six Olympics, 31 World Series and 16 Super Bowls.
"Joe always put The Star's
interests above his own, and Kansas City's interests above The Star's," said current Star editor Mark Zieman. "He wanted the paper to improve our community, not bludgeon it. But when facts supported it, he loved hard-edged, investigative reporting, especially if it involved misspend tax dollars or standing up for the little guy.
"And when the big guys complained, he always listened graciously to their objections, sent them happily on their way — and ran more tough stories. He was just an outstanding editor, and a good man."
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