TWO K-STATE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED DURING THE INVESTIGATION OF THE POSSESSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ILLEGAL DRUGS. K-STATE POLICE HAD A SEARCH WARRANT AND WENT INTO ROOM 23 OF GOODNOW HALL. ANDREW KUEHLER AND MICHELLE CALHOUN WERE ARRESTED ON NOVEMBER 7TH WHEN MARIJUANA, PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS, CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, AND PARAPHERNALIA USED IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS WAS FOUND. KUEHLER’S BOND WAS SET AT $5,000 AND CALHOUN’S WAS SET AT $2,500.
LUIS ANTONIO AGUIRRE, WHO’S CHARGED WITH KILLING 18-YEAR OLD CARMEN LYDIA MALDONADO AND HER 15-MONTH OLD SON JUAN MALDONADO WILL BE FACING CAPITAL MURDER CHARGES. AGUIRRE WAS ARRESTED IN TEXAS AND SENT BACK TO RILEY COUNTY. ACCORDING TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE, THE DEATH PENALTY DEFENSE UNIT WAS APPOINTED TO THE CASE. AGUIRRE’S NEXT HEARING IS DECEMBER 7TH.
SCOTT ROEDER HAS CONFESSED TO SHOOTING WICHITA ABORTION DOCTOR GEORGE TILLER. 51-YEAR OLD ROEDER SHOT TILLER AT CHURCH IN MAY. HIS JUSTIFICATION IS HE WAS PROTECTING THE LIVES OF UNBORN CHILDREN. A DEFENSIVE ACTION STATEMENT SAYING THE SAME THING WAS RELEASED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE CONFESSION. SIGNERS OF THIS WANT THIS TO BE CONSIDERED DEFENSE AT ROEDER’S TRIAL ON JANUARY 11TH. OF THE SIGNERS…THREE OF THEM ARE ALSO SERVING TIME FOR TARGETING ABORTION DOCTORS.
THE REASON OF DEATH HAS BEEN FOUND FOR THE GORILLA AT THE TOPEKA ZOO SATURDAY MORNING. ZOO DIRECTOR MIKE COKER SAYS THE GORILLA DIED FROM AN AORTIC ANEURYSM. M’BILI, A 17-YEAR OLD GORILLA HAD NO SIGNS OF ILLNESS OR DISTRESS. KANSAS STATE VETERINARIANS DID THE AUTOPSY. M’BILI IS THE SECOND GORILLA IN FOUR YEARS TO DIE AT THE TOPEKA ZOO WELL BEFORE ITS LIFE EXECTANCY, WHICH IS 40 TO 50 YEARS.
THE DEER POPULATION IS GETTING UNDER CONTROL AT SHAWNEE MISSION PARK IN JOHNSON COUNTY. PARK SPOKESMAN RANDY KNIGHT SAYS PHASE ONE TOOK PLACE OVER FOUR DAYS LAST WEEK WHEN SHARPSHOOTERS SHOT AND KILLED 313 DEER IN THE PARK. THEY PLAN ON THINNING THE POPULATION FROM 200 DEER PER SQUARE MILE TO ABOUT 50. THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SHARPSHOOTERS SHOT THE DEER AT NIGHT OUTSIDE OF PARK HOURS. KNIGHT ALSO SAYS THE DEER MEAT WILL BE TESTED AND THEN BE GIVEN TO NEEDY FAMILIES THROUGH HARVESTERS’ COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK AND THE HIDES WILL GO TO THE ELK’S VETERAMS LEATHER PROGRAM.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD TODAY AT FORT HOOD IN TEXAS. PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE THERE AMOUNG THOUSANDS OF OTHERS. LAST THURSDAY 13 PEOPLE WERE KILLED DURING THE SHOOTING SPREE. SUSPECT MAJOR NIDAL MALIK HASAN IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING MORE THAN 100 ROUNDS BEFORE HE WAS SHOT. HE IS NOW IN STABLE CONDITION. HASAN WAS ASSESSED BY TERRORISM INVESTIGATORS NEARLY A YEAR AGO AND WAS SAID TO NOT POSE A THREAT. HASAN WILL BE TRIED IN MILITARY COURT.
A BOSTON SUBWAY DRIVER IS A HERO THIS MORNING AFTER STOPPING HER TRAIN JUST BEFORE HITTING A WOMAN ON THE TRACKS. DRIVER CHARICE LEWIS GOT A CALL FROM ANOTHER EMPLOYEE JACQUELINE OSORIO WHO SAW THE WOMAN FALL. LEWIS SAW PEOPLE WAVING THEIR ARMS AND PULLED HER EMERGENCY BRAKE. THE WOMAN, WHO TOLD AUTHORITIES SHE HAD BEEN DRINKING, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR EVALUATION AND SUFFERED FROM SOME SCRAPES. THE TWO WOMEN, LEWIS AND OSORIO, RECEIVED A CALL OF CONGRATULATIONS FROM GOVORNER DEVAL PATRICK AND WERE RECOGNIZED BY THE STATE TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY.
BASKETBALL LEGEND KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING THAT HE HAS CANCER. HE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CHRONIC MYELOID LEIKEMIA FOR ALMOST A YEAR. 62-YEAR OLD ABDUL-JABBAR IS BEING TREATED WITH MEDICINE THAT TARGETS THE ABNORMAL PROTEIN THAT CAUSES HIS LEUKEMIA. HE IS A COACH WITH THE LAKERS AND IS EXPECTED TO LIVE A FULL, ACTIVE LIFE.
THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IS CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF JANIS JOPLIN WITH A WEEK FULL OF EVENTS LEADING TO HER TRIBUTE CONCERT. THE HALL CALLS JOPLIN ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENCIAL ARTISTS. JOPLIN PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 27 FROM A DRUG OVERDOSE IN 1970. THIS WEEK THE ROCK HALL OF FAME AND CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ARE HOSTING TALKS BY PEOPLE INCLUDING HER SIBLINGS, FORMER ROAD MANAGER, AND JEFFERSON AIRPLANE GUITARIST JORMA KAUKONEN. THE TRIBUTE SHOW SATURDAY WILL INCLUDE LUCINDA WILLIAMS, COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD, AND THE SONGWRITER OF HER SONG "MERCEDES BENZ" BOB NEUWIRTH.
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