Monday, November 9, 2009

News 11-9-09

A LAWRENCE MAN SHOT HIMSELF SATURDAY IN A MANHATTAN RESIDENCE. POLICE SAY THEY WERE LOOKING FOR 33-YEAR OLD MATTHEW TESSENDORF TO CHECK ON HIS WELFARE WHEN THEY FOUND HIM AT THE 1000 BLOCK OF JULIETTE AVENUE. RCPD LEUTENANT HERB CROSBY JUNIOR SAYS TESSENDORF WAS TALKING TO POLICE FOR A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME AND SHOT HIMSELF WITH A HAND GUN. HE WAS TAKEN TO MERCY REGIONAL AND THEN AIR LIFTED TO STORMONT-VAIL HEALTH CENTER IN TOPEKA. THE INCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.


VANDALS HIT K-STATE’S VANIER FOOTBAL COMPLEX EARLY SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE K-STATE TOOK ON KU. RED AND BLUE PAINT WAS SPLASHED OUTSIDE THE STADIUM DEFACING A POWERCAT LOGO AND SOME PARKED CARS. IT WAS CLEANED UP BY THE TIME ANYONE GOT THERE. WITH THIS ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE, K-STATE DEFEATED THE JAYHAWKS 17 TO 10.


24 HIGHWAY TURNED INTO A RUWNAY LAST NIGHT. A SINGLE ENGINE CESSNA PLANE LOST POWER DURING A FLYING LESSON AND HAD TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY LANDING ON THE HIGHWAY JUST NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA. THE PLANE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE LANDING AT FORBES FIELD IN TOPEKA. THE FLYING TEACHER LEE MOYER TOOK OVER AND LANDED IT SAFELY WESTBOUND. MOTORISTS PULLED OVER WHEN THEY SAW THE PLANE COMING DOWN FOR LANDING.


AN ATCHISON WOMAN IS STILL MISSING AFTER HER DISAPPEARANCE FRIDAY. AUTHORITIES SAY 58-YEAR OLD PATRICIA KIMMI WAS “FORCEFULLY REMOVED” FROM HER HOME NEAR HORTON. SHE WAS REPORTED MISSING BY HER FAMILY SATURDAY. KIMMI IS WHITE WITH BROWN HAIR AND BLUE EYES AND IS FIVE FOOT SIX INCHES TALL WEIGHING ABOUT 160 POUNDS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CAN CALL ATCHISON COUNTY SHERIFFS DISPATCHERS AT 913-367-4323.


BUSES AND TROLLEY’S AND SUBWAYS OH MY. THE PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT STRIKE IS OVER AFTER A SIX DAY STRIKE. LUCKY FOR COMMUTERS, THEY FOUND OUT EARLY ENOUGH TO WAITING AT THE BUS AND SUBWAY STATIONS THIS MORNING. LAST TUESDAY ABOUT 5,000 TRANSPORT WORKERS WALKED OFF THE JOB.


THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER OF THE FORT HOOD KILLING SPREE IS IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION. ACORDING TO COLONEL JOHN ROSSI, MAJOR NIDAL MALIK HASAN HAS REMAINED IN THE SAME CONDITION AFTER HE WAS TAKEN OFF THE VENTILATOR SATURDAY. 13 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AT 29 MORE WOUNDED DURING THURSDAY’S SHOOTING SPREE AT A PROCESSING CENTER ON POST. ROSSI ALSO SAID THE CENTER REMAINS A CRIME SCENE AND THE BASE IS “WORKING ON HEALING.”


THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKLEY HAS A UNIQUE WAY OF CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES. THEY MADE A 330 FOOT CALIFORNIA ROLL. TO MAKE THEIR GIANT SUSHI ROLL, THEY USED 200 POUNDS OF RICE, 80 POUNDS OF AVOCADO, 80 POUNDS OF CUCUMBER, AND 180 POUNDS OF FISH. THE LAST 15 FEET WAS MADE VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY WITH TOFU INSTEAD OF FISH. THIS IS THE LARGEST SUSHI ROLL BEATING A 300 FOOT CALIFORNIA ROLL MADE IN HAWAII IN 2001.

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