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Sweets and smokes
Rachel Kraig, a Chicago senior, and Laura Wichern, a Topeka senior, pass out candy with informational notes about smoking Thursday afternoon as a part of The Great American Smoke Out at the Kansas Union. The smoke out was held to give smokers and non-smokers information about smoking and reasons why they shouldn't smoke.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Police didn't have a hard time finding a burglar suspect they say broke into a central Florida home. He was asleep on the bedroom floor.
The homeowner his home had been burgled several times
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Burglar discovered sleeping on floor
Matt Adair, right, a former student from Topeka was well-known and liked:
in the past few days. It's unclear
what, if anything, was stolen.
Authorities found a side door forced open and a 17-year-old sleeping on the floor Wednesday. He was charged with burglary and taken to a juvenile detention center.
Associated Press
His name is being withheld because of his age.
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HONOLULU — Groups and citizens in Guam have sued the U.S. military, alleging it violated federal environmental and historic preservation laws by choosing an ancient village as the site of a new live fire range.
The Navy, in a decision announced in September, said it wants to build the training site at one of two sites in Pagat village. The range would be used by Marines due to move to the U.S. territory from Okinawa, Japan.
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Guamanians sue over firing range
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu said the Navy failed to adequately consider alternative locations that would have less of an impact
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on the environment and historic sites. It further alleged the Navy failed to adequately examine the environmental consequences of its actions.
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, whose senior officials are named as defendants in the suit, said it was unable to comment on ongoing litigation.
The suit said archaeological studies date Pagat to A.D. 700, while traditional knowledge indicates the village was inhabited 3,000 years ago. The village has up to 20 sets of carved stone pedestals, called late, upon which the indigenous Chamorro people set buildings.
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'Not as many smiles around' as students remember friend
BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
Once you met Matt, you were friends with him. And once you were friends, there was no going back - you would always be friends, Matt would always be there for you and, like it or not, when you saw him, you were always in for a treat.
"He was the funniest guy I ever met. Whenever he was in the room, you didn't really have a choice, you were laughing," Todd Davidson, a graduate student from Tonganoxie, said.
Matt was blunt, brutally honest and probably more than a little crass. But even that, friends said, was all part of the "Matt package" - the one goal he had for himself and the overwhelmingly dominant characteristic of his personality — the desire to make those around him feel good.
"Matt was who youd call if you wanted to have fun, always," Phil Cole, a senior from Boston, said.
That was until Tuesday, when,
suddenly and painfully, Matt was gone
Matt Adair, a former student from Topeka, was found dead in his off-campus apartment early Tuesday morning. The cause is presumed to be suicide.
Now, Matt's myriad friends are living without their jokerest, struggling to grieve, and to live with the difficulty of the idea his death could have been prevented.
"It's such a shame that he couldn't see how many people truly loved him," Carly Moon, a friend from high school, said in an e-mail.
Adair had last been enrolled at the University in fall 2009, as an engineering major. He did not re-enroll in the
spring, but took a job in Gardner to build up funds to return to school later, friends said. Eventually, he wanted to go into law enforcement.
In life, he was the loveable guy who spoke his mind, cracked jokes and listened to his friends' stories. But he rarely talked about himself.
"He had an amazing ability to make everyone feel better," Sean Kelly, a senior from Southborough, Mass., said. "And you knew you could call him at 4 in the morning just to get something off your chest, but you had to dig to get him to tell你 what was up with him."
Friends and roommates such as Kelly said they're still in shock, but trying to process their grief by remembering Adair's infectious personality and wild antics, focusing on his life — not his death.
"We're just trying to remember
him in the fond light we knew him" Kelly said.
Funeral services for Adair will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church, at 1275 Southwest Boswell Ave. in Toneka.
As friends continue to grieve their "favorite little hobo," the stories continue - of trying to drive a stick shift for the first time down Mass. Street, of late-night chats over beers, of their beloved brother, son, never-forgotten friend.
And Matt's friends smile at their memories while knowing their big-hearted comedian-confidant won't be able to crack any more jokes.
"I was late to get to know him, but, right away, he treated me the same way he did everyone else - he had me on the floor laughing," Davidson said. "I know now there's not going to be as many smiles around."
NATIONAL
'Octomom'doctor testifies
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — The fertility doctor for "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Thursday she agreed to be implanted with 12 embryos and knew she was part of a study on fertility methods, disputing a prosecutor's assertion that Suleman was an unwitting human subject.
The hearing became heated on its final day, as lawyers clashed over whether Suleman knew about the study conducted by Dr. Michael Kamrava while she was receiving in vitro treatments that produced all 14 of her children.
Suleman is the mother of the longest living set of octuplets in history. She didn't testify at the licensing hearing but has acknowledged that her desire for a huge family led her to repeated in vitro treatments with Kamrava.
Kamrava retook the witness stand ahead of closing arguments to answer questions about the
study.
Deputy Attorney General Judith Alvarado repeatedly asserted through questioning that Suleman could not have known that she was a test subject.
Asked how Suleman knew about the study, Kamrava said,
"She heard about it, we discussed it with her and she volunteered."
Alvarado asked: "Where did she sign to say I'm a volunteer to be tested as a human guinea pig?"
ing to revoke the doctor's license, alleging gross negligence in his treatment of Suleman and two other patients. Administrative Law Judge Daniel Juarez granted a request by Alvarado Thursday to add a charge of dishonest and corrupt acts to the accusations against
Kamrava
"Where did she sign to say I'm a volunteer to be tested as a human guinea pig?"
referred to a consent form Suleman signed that listed risks of the fertility treatments, but no document identified in the hearing indicated she had specific knowledge of the study.
JUDITH ALVARADO Deputy Attorney
the state medical board is seek-
Kamrava for allegedly failing to properly inform human test subjects.
After closing argument s, Kamrava's lawyer Henry Fenton told reporters it
was untrue that Suleman submitted to the study without her knowledge and "there's nothing experimental about it."
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