A LANDON LECTURE WILL BE TAKING PLACE THIS MORNING AT MCCAIN AUDITORIUM AT KANSAS STATE. CHAIR OF THE FDIC SHEILA BAIR WILL BE SPEAKING AT 10:30. CHAIR OF THE LANDON LECTURE SERIES CHARLES REAGAN SAYS ONE OF BAIR’S TOPICS WILL BE “WHO SHOULD CONTROL OUR NATION’S BIG BANKS IN LIGHT OF THE FEDERAL BAILOUT PROGRAM.” SHE IS A KANSAS NATIVE BEING BORN AND RAISED IN INDEPENDENCE AND EARING HER BACHELOR’S AND LAW DEGREE AT KU.
GOVERNOR PARKINSON HAS NOMINATED HIS NEW COMMERCE SECRETARY. WILLIAM THORNTON WILL BE REPLACING DAVID KERR WHO SAID THURSDAY HE WAS GOING TO BECOME MISSOURI’S DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THORNTON…WHO SERVES ON THE KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS… WILL BE TAKING OVER NOVEMBER 9TH.
POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR TWO TEENS AFTER A WOMAN WAS SHOT AT TOPEKA’S CENTRAL PARK ON OCTOBER 26TH. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES.. 34-YEAR OLD MARINA MCKNIGHT WAS TRYING TO BREAK UP A FIGHT BETWEEN 30 TO 40 KIDS WHEN SOMEONE FIRED SHOTS AND SHE WAS KILLED. THE PERSONS OF INTEREST ARE 18-YEAR OLD GARRY WAYNE WELLS JUNIOR AND 16-YEAR OLD ANTHONY LAVERNE MARSHALL III…BOTH FROM TOPEKA. POLICE SAY MARSHALL GOES BUY THE NICKNAMES MAN AND MAYHAM AND WELLS’S NICKNAME IS NIPPY. TWO FUNDS HAVE BEEN SET UP FOR MCNIGHT. ONE IS FOR HER FIVE CHILDREN AT THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CREDIT UNION AND THE OTHER IS AT THE EDUCATIONAL CREDIT UNION AND WILL HELP WITH FUNERAL COSTS.
AN OLATHE MAN IS DEAD AFTER A FIRE STARTED WHEN HE WAS SMOKING WHILE USING OXYGEN TO HELP HIM BREATHE. THE 74-YEAR OLD MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY WHERE HE DIED. HIS WIFE MADE IT OUT OF THE DUPLEX HERSELF AND SUFFERS FROM MINOR SMOKE INHALATION. ABOUT $5,000 OF DAMAGE WAS DONE.
THE ONLINE AUCITON TO RAISE MONEY FOR SCOTT ROEDER…THE MAN WHO SHOT AND KILLED ABORTION DOCTOR GEORGE TILLER HAS BEEN THREATENED BY EBAY. EBAY SAYS THEY WILL SHUT DOWN THEIR AUCTIONS BECAUSE THEY VIOLATE THEIR POLICIES ON OFFENSIVE MATERIALS. TWO ITEMS WERE PUT ON THE WEBSITE LAST NIGHT. ONE WAS A BIBLE THAT WAS SHELLEY SHANNON’S…A WOMAN WHO SHOT AND WOUNDED DR. TILLER IN 1993 AND THE OTHER IS CATACHISM WRITTEN BY ANTI ABORTION ACTIVIST MICHAEL BRAY. THE POSTINGS WERE STILL UP HOURS AFTER THEY WERE PUT ON THE SITE.
A SURVEY SHOWS THERE WILL BE A SLUMP OF HOLIDAY SALES IN THE MIDWEST. HOLIDAY SALES ARE EXPECTED TO DECLINE 1.6% FROM LAST YEAR. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY ECONOMIST ERNIE GOSS SAYS DURING A NORMAL HOLIDAY SEASON THERE IS A 6% GROWTH IN SALES. THIS MID-AMERICA SURVEY WAS TAKEN IN NINE STATES INCLUDING KANSAS.
THE COUNCIL IN D-C WILL CONTINUE TO CONSIDER A BILL THAT WILL ALLOW SAME SEX MARRAGE IN WASHINGTON. TODAY WILL BE THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING. LAST MONTH OPENLY GAY COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID CATANIA INTRODUCED THE MEASURE. NINE OF THE 12 COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE SIGNED ON AS CO-SPONSORS OF THE BILL. OPPONENTS HAVE ASKED THE DC BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO PUT THE ISSUE ON NEXT YEAR’S BALLOT.
A NEW YORK MEAT COMPANY IS RECALLING GROUND BEEF BECAUSE IT’S LINKED TO CASES OF E-COLI. ONE PERSON HAS DIED AND TWO OTHERS BECAME SICK BECAUSE OF IT. FAIRBANK FARMS’S MEAT WAS DISTRIBUTED IN RETAIL STORES IN MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, NORTH CAROLINA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, AND VIRGINA. THE PACKAGES HAVE THE NUMBER EST 492 ON THE LABEL. NEARLY 546,000 POUNDS OF GROUND BEEF HAVE BEEN RECALLED.
ELTON JOHN IS IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER SUFFERING FROM E-COLI AND THE FLU. JOHN’S SPOKESMAN GARY FARROW SAYS HE HOPES TO BE RELEASED SOON BUT HAS TO CANCEL CONCERTS IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND THE US. JOHN IS REJOINING THE FACE2FACE TOUR WITH BILLY JOEL LATER THIS MONTH.
THE MICHAEL JACKSON FILM THIS IS IT SHOWED THIS WEEKEND IT REALLY WAS IT. DURING ITS FIRST FIVE DAYS OUT IT MADE 101 MILLION DOLLAR WORLDWIDE AND 21.3 MILLION IN THE US MAKING IT THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN THE LAND. THE MOVIE’S POPULARITY WAS BIGGER OVER SEAS WHERE ABOUT 70% OF ITS STRENGTH CAME FROM. THE FILM IS ABOUT JACKSON GETTING READY FOR HIS COMBACK TOUR BEFORE HE DIED IN JUNE.
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