Tuesday, February 23, 2010

2-23-10

YESTERDAY’S LANDON LECTURE GOT OFF TO A ROUGH START. AROUND 1:00 A BOMB THREAT WAS CALLED IN AT MCCAIN AUDITORIUM WHERE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR DENNIS BLAIR WAS GOING TO BE SPEAKING AT ONE-THIRTY. K-STATE SPOKESWOMAN BETH BOHN SAYS NO ONE WAS SEATED YET. THE LECTURE WAS MOVED TO FORUM HALL IN THE UNION WHILE LAW ENFORCEMENT SWEPT MCCAIN. NOTHING WAS FOUND AND MCCAIN WAS OPENED BACK UP AROUND 2:00. THE NEXT LANDON LECTURE WILL BE MARCH THIRD IN MCCAIN AUDITORIUM AND THE CHAIR OF JOINTS CHIEFS OF STAFF ADMIRAL MICHAEL MULLEN WILL BE SPEAKING.


VOTING IS NOW OPEN FOR THE PRIMARY SGA ELECTIONS. IT OPENED TODAY AT EIGHT A-M AND WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 6 SIX PM TOMORROW NIGHT. AFTER THE PRIMARY VOTES THE TOP TWO TICKETS WILL MOVE ON TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS NEXT WEEK. THE TEAMS ARE ALLEN-HOLTZ, MCGLONE-CRAEMER, SHANE-WEST, UNRUH–OLIVER, AND BRINTON-MCGUIRE. TO VOTE YOU CAN GO TO WWW.KSU.EDU/ELECTION. TO FIND OUT WHO GOES ON TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS LISTEN HERE TO THE WILDCAT 91.9 AROUND 6 PM TOMORROW FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TWO TOP DUOS.


A CALIFORNIA MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER BEING STOPPED ON I-70 LAST NIGHT IN JUNCTION CITY. OFFICER NICK BLACK STOPPED A U-HAUL TRUCK FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION WHEN A DRUG DOG ALARMED HIM OF A PICK UP TRUCK BEING PULLED. THE POLICE CHIEF SAYS WHEN THE THEY FOUND A PVC PIPE PACKED WITH COCAINE AFTER THEY CUT THE DRIVE SHAFT OF THE TRUCK OPEN. THE VALUE OF THE COCAINE IS $450-THOUSAND . THE 28-YEAR OLD IS BEING HELD IN GEARY COUNTY JAIL ON $500 THOUSAND BOND.


RAIN AND FOG ARE MOST LIKELY THE REASONS BEHIND A FATAL PLANE CRASH IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. THE PILOTS WERE TRYING TO LAND FOR THE SECOND TIME BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER. THEY HAD ALSO ABORTED A LANDING AT ST. LOUIS DOWNTOWN AIRPORT IN CAHOKIA. THE TWO VICTIMS HAVE TENTATIVELY BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE ST. CLAIR COUNTY CORONER TO BE 65 YEAR OLD DONALD ESTELL OF CLAYTON MISSOURI AND 68-YEAR OLD ROBERT CLARKSON OF BELLEVILLE. INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL FINDING THE EXACT REASON ON THE CRASH.


ONE MAN IS DEAD AND ANOTHER WOUNDED AFTER DRIVING A STOLEN CAR THROUGH THE GATE AT LUKE AIR FORCE BASE IN GLENDALE ARIZONA. SECURITY OPENED FIRE ON THEM AFTER THEY CRASHED INTO THE ENTRANCE GATE. THE BASE SPOKESMAN SAYS NO ONE ON THE BASE WAS INJURED AND BOTH MEN WERE TAKEN TO AN AREA HOSPITAL.


ABOUT 350 PEOPLE ARE DOING BETTER AFTER GETTING SICK ON A CARIBBEAN CRUISE. CELEBRITY CRUISE SPOKESWOMAN SAYS PASSENGERS AND CREW MEMBERS BEGAN COMPLAINING OF UPSET STOMACHS, VOMITING, AND DIARRHA WHILE DEPARTED. THE CREW IS GIVING THE BOAT AN “ENHANCED CLEANING” AND GAVE EVERYONE MEDICINE. AN EXTRA DOCTOR AND TWO NURSES ALSO BOARDED THE PLANE TO HELP. THEY STILL AREN’T SURE WHAT CAUSED THE OUTBREAK.


BETTY WHITE’S GETTING CLOSER TO BEING ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. AFTER THE FACEBOOK CRAZE OF PEOPLE JOINING A GROUP TO HAVE HER HOST…SOME PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE. THERE ARE NOW TALKS BUT NOW CONFIRMATION FROM NBC OF MAKING IT A WOMEN OF COMEDY SHOW WITH THE FORMER ROSE NYLUND…AND SOME EX SNLers MOLLY SHANNON, TINA FEY, AND AMY POEHLER. LET’S SEE IF THIS GOLDEN GIRL CAN GET HER GOLDEN NIGHT.

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