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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Good, I can feel your anger,
I am defenseless. Take your
weapon. Strike me down with
all of your hatred and your
journey towards the dark side
will be complete!"
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. 2009
— The Emperor, "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi"
FACT OF THE DAY
The growls and sounds of the Rancor in Jabba's Palace in "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" were actually made by a dachsun.
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CRIME
Teen charged in murder of 10-year-old brother
RISING SUN, Ind. — An Indiana prosecutor said a 17-year-old charged with murder in the strangulation death of his 10-year-old brother had fantasized about killing someone.
Dearborn-Ohio County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard said Andrew Conley of Rising Sun has been charged as an adult and will have an initial hearing Friday.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. UK government denies entry to Omar Bin Laden
LONDON — The British government says it has refused to allow a son of Osama bin Laden to travel to Britain.
Omar bin Laden had appealed an earlier decision by U.K. authorities to keep him out of Britain.The 28-year-old son of the al-Qaida leader wants to come to Britain to be with his 58-year-old English partner, Jane Felix-Browne, whom he claims to have married.
Mark Ockelton of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal said Thursday that Omar bin Laden's appeal has been rejected because authorities still did not believe his marriage is valid.
2. Airplane manufacturer experiences profit loss
MONTREAL — The airplane and train manufacturer Bombardier says its profit fell 25 percent in its third quarter amid harsh economic conditions.
Bombardier Inc. said Thursday earnings available to Bombardier shareholders fell to $167 million, or 9 cents per share, for the quarter ended Oct. 31. That's down
from a year-ago profit of $222 million, or 12 cents per share.
The company says revenue was little changed at almost $4.6 billion.
3. Swiss man's solar plane has first successful flight
GENEVA — A Swiss adventurer said his first flight using a prototype of a solar-powered plane he will try to fly around the world in was successful.
The "Solar Impulse," which has a wingspan of a Boeing 747 but weighs less than a small car, flew 1,150 feet (350 meters) at just one meter above the ground, Piccard said.
The short, low altitude flight at a Swiss airfield Thursday proved the prototype can fly, said adventurer Bertrand Piccard, pilot of the first hot-air balloon to fly nonstop around the world.
"The goal was not to make a big flight, but to see if this airplane is behaving the way the engineers designed it," he said.
"It was absolutely great to see this plane in the air," Piccard told The Associated Press. "It's a completely new flight domain. There has never been an airplane so big and so light flying with so little energy."
NATIONAL
4. Fort Hood police officer needs knee replacement
FORT WORTH, Texas — One of two civilian police officers who brought down the man accused of going on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, said her wounds from the attack will cut short her career as street police officer.
5. Gay marriage up for vote next week in proposed bill
Sgt. Kimberly Munley said doctors have told her she needs a total knee replacement, but it might wear out sooner if she runs or carries the 15- to 25-pound gear pack required by her job.
TRENTON, N.J. — A bill to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey will be posted for a vote next week.
Munley and another civilian officer in Fort Hood's police force are credited with shooting Maj. Nidal Hasan in the Nov. 5 shooting rampage. He has been charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder.
Sen. Ray Lesniak, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says the bill is scheduled to go
before that committee on Monday and will be voted on by the full Senate next Thursday.
Garden State lawmakers who support the idea have been reluctant to post the bill for a vote unless they were fairly certain it would pass.
Outgoing Gov. Jon Corzine has said he would sign a gay-marriage bill into law. His replacement, Gov.elect Chris Christie, takes office next month and says he would veto it.
6. Cameras capture cats at play, napping, observing
LOS ANGELES — What do cats do when their owners are away?
There is one way to find out — "cat cams."
Fifty house cats were given collar cameras that took a photo every 15 minutes. The results put a digital dent in some human theories about catnapping.
Based on the photos, about 22 percent of the cats' time was spent looking out of windows, 12 percent was used to interact with other family pets and 8 percent was spent climbing on chairs or kitty condos. Just 6 percent of their hours were spent sleeping.
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Car crashes into day care, injures five
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BY RICK CALLAHAN
INDIANAPOLIS — Two robbery suspects fleeing police lost control of their sport utility vehicle and crashed into a day care center Thursday, injuring four children and an employee in a shower of bricks and other debris, police said.
About 18 children were inside the Stepping Stones Child Care when the SUV slammed into the brick building on the city's north side about 12:15 p.m., Lt. Jeff Duhamell said.
Kara Hardister, who runs the church-owned day care, said the crash sent bricks and debris flying
into a room for 3-year-olds just before their afternoon nap.
The ear burst into flames shortly after the crash, but officers quickly extinguished the fire.
"It's just senseless, just senseless, that innocent people have to go through this." Hardister said.
One of the four children was in critical condition but stable at Methodist Hospital, while the other three had non-life-threatening injuries, Duhamell said.
He said police arrested two people in the SUV, one of whom required stitches to a hand.
A woman working at the day care center suffered a broken leg when she was struck by bricks, and another person was injured when the SUV hit a car during the police chase. Duhamell said those injuries weren't serious.
Officers were chasing the SUV following an armed robbery at a nearby Family Dollar store when
the crash occurred, Duhamell said.
Police apprehended two men at the scene, identified as Darron S. Crowe, 21, and Theo Sanford, 19. Duhamell said the pair will face several felony charges that likely
will include armed robbery, fleeing police and reckless driving causing injuries.
Tenants in a nearby building said the crash sounded like gunfire. As the SUV sped toward the day care, nar
Preswood, after hearing about the crash. She ran through the police tape and found out that her son was safe and had been taken to a nearby day care center.
rowly missing a telephone pole, it tore through shrubbery, scattering branches across the center's parking lot before plowing into the building.
Whittney Rutland said she raced to the day care center to check on her 3-year-old son, Armohni
"It's chaos—there's a big car in the room, through the wall. The parents are very shaken about it..."
"I ran through there and stuff
KARA HARDISTER Day care provider
bough there and said she was dropping out of my purse," she said, "I was so scared."
Hardister, who choked back tears while talking to reporters, said she was angry at the two suspects, one of whom she said smashed out a win-
to flee the scene.
"It's chaos — there's a big car in the room, through the wall," she said. "The parents are very shaken about it. The phone inside is ringing off the hook."
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Veteran's flagpole starts feud
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RICHMOND, Va. — One of the nation's oldest Medal of Honor winners was back in the fight Thursday, this time against a neighborhood association that wants him to take down a frontyard flagpole.
Supporters, including a U.S. senator, have been falling in behind 90-year-old retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II veteran awarded the lofty Congressional honor for actions including standing up to three German tanks with a bazooka and stopping their advance.
BY ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON
Barfoot put up the 21-foot flagpole in September in front of his suburban Richmond home. He raises the American flag daily at sunrise and retires it at sunset.
"It's really ridiculous to want to keep the flag from being flown,"
he said in a telephone interview. "I've heard some terrible excuses out there."
The Sussex Square homeowners' association says the flagpole violates the neighborhood's aesthetic guidelines and ordered him to remove it by 5 p.m. Friday or face a lawsuit. The group has said Barfoot can display the flag, as long as it's in a way that conforms with association rules, such as from a pole mounted on the front of the house.
"This is not about the American flag. This is about a flagpole," the association said in a statement.
Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., is among those offering to help break the impasse, Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said. On Thursday, the homeowners association voted unanimously to ask Warner's office to attempt to reach a compromise in the dispute.
away to try to come up with a solution that's acceptable to both Col. Barfoot and to the homeowner's association," Hall said in an e-mail.
"We intend to get to work right
Barfoot won the Medal of Honor for actions while his platoon was under German assault near Carano, Italy, in May 1944. The award citation says Barfoot, then a 2nd lieutenant, crept up alone on German machine gun nests, killing and capturing enemy troops in three of them, stopped their three-tank advance and helped two seriously wounded comrades back to safety.
Barfoot's daughter, Margaret Nicholls, said her father has been moved to tears by the outpouring of support, and hopes the nine-member homeowners' board will use its discretion and let him keep the pole.
ON CAMPUS
"A house-mounted pole? That is not an option," Nicholls said. "The flagpole is definitely what he's fighting for."
The KU Memorial Unions Reception for Kansas Photographer Tom Soetaert will begin at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
"New Dance" will begin at 7.30 p.m. in the Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre in the Robinson Center.
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"Inglorious Basterds" will be shown at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"Distracted" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Free Cosmic Bowling will begin at 10 p.m. in Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
About 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Robinson Center, someone reported the theft of a gym bag and contents, at a loss of $93.
About noon Wednesday at Anschutz Library, someone reported the theft of a purse, at a loss of $25.
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CRIME
CRIME
Skid Row drug dispute ends in woman's death
LOS ANGELES — A woman driving an old limousine ran down another woman in a Skid Row drug dispute, dragging her for almost a mile to her death early Thursday before pursuing police finally stopped the car, authorities said.
The death occurred in a grimy area of downtown Los Angeles whose sidewalks by day are filled with street vendors and shoppers. But after nightfall, the area becomes a desolate destination for drug dealers and transients who bed down on the sidewalks.
“This kind of thing happens a lot here,” said Heather Harcus, a 50-year-old sidewalk resident who said she knew the victim. Sonia Taunau, by sight. “It’s a shame.”
Harcus said Taunauu, 25,
was known around Skid Row
as "China."
The driver, Nancy Lekon,
43, collapsed at the scene and
was taken to a hospital before
being booked for investigation
of vehicular homicide, Sgt. Dan
Eun said.
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