STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS ARE UNDERWAY. TODAY AT NOON WILL BE THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. IFYOU CAN’T MAKE IT WEDNESDAY OUR NEWS DIRECTOR LAURA DUVAL WILL BE MODERATING AND THE DEBATE WILL BE AIRED LIVE RIGHT HERE ON 91.9. PRIMARY ELECTIONS WILL BE THE 23RD AND 24TH AND GENERAL ELECTIONS WILL BE MARCH SECOND AND THIRD. BOTH OF THOSE ANNOUNCEMENTS WILL ALSO BE RIGHT HERE ON THE WILDCAT 91.9.
SAFETY FIRST WHEN IT COMES TO HUNTING. THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND PARKS IS SAYING LAST YEAR’S HUNTING SEASONS IS THE SAFEST ON RECORD. THERE WERE 12 ACCIDENTS REPORTED AND NO FATALITIES WHILE IN 2008 THERE WERE 16 ACCIDENTS. THE DEPARTMENT’S HUNTER EDUCATION COORDINATOR SAYS 12 IS A SMALL NUMBER WHEN THERE ARE 271,000 HUNTERS IN THE FIELDS. THIS NUMBER DOESN’T INCLUDE TREESTAND ACCIDENTS…WHICH THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO REPORT.
THE ROADS WERE A MESS THROUGHOUT KANSAS YESTERDAY WITH THE SNOW AND WINDS. THE PILE UPS SENT PEOPLE TO THE HOSPITAL AND DOZENS OF CARS TO THE SHOP. A 20 CAR WRECK ON I-35 IN KANSAS CITY SENT 13 PEOPLE TO THE HOSPITAL MOSTLY WITH MINOR INJURIES. ANOTHER WRECK IN KANSAS CITY ON 4-35 INVOLVED 40 CARS AND ACCIDENTS WERE REPORTED ON I-70 TOO.
THE REASON OF DEATH FOR A WOMAN WHO’S BODY WAS FOUND OUTSIDE A KANSAS CITY AREA HOSPITAL HAS BEEN FOUND. 40-YEAR OLD ANGELA HOOK OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE. HER BODY WAS FOUND INSIDE A CAR IN THE PARKING LOT OF SHAWNEE MISSION MEDICAL CENTER ON DECEMBER 29TH. POLICE SAY SOMEONE USED HOOK’S CREDIT CARD AND PHONE IN THE WEEK AFTER SHE DISSAPPEARED. THE AUTOPSY AND TOXICOLOGY TESTS CAN’T TELL WHETHER HOOD WAS ALIVE WHEN SHE WAS LEFT IN THE PARKING LOT.
KANSAS HAS ANOTHER H1N1 DEATH. A MOTHER OF TWO DIED WEDNESDAY AFTER THREE MONTHS OF COMPLICATIONS. HER HUSBAND AND SONS ALSO GOT SICK BUT WHILE THEY RECOVERED…31-YEAR OLD CAROLINA ENEGREN GOT WORSE. ENEGREN’S COUGH TURNED INTO ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME AND SHE’S BEEN HOSPITALIZED SINCE OCTOBER 24TH. HER HUSBAND SAYS SHE DIED OF COMPLICATIONS OF THE VIRUS AND LUNG DAMAGE.
A WOUNDED EAGLE WAS RELSEASED YESTERDAY NEAR DOWNTOWN WICHITA. AFTER RECOVERING FROM BEING SHOT IN THE WING, THE BIRD NAMED FREEDOM WAS LET FREE AFTER SPENDING TIME AT THE EAGLE VALLEY RAPTOR CENTER. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CAME OUT TO SEE THE BIRD AS IT SWOOPED OVER THE ARKANSAS RIVER. THE RELEASE WAS DEDICATED TO SEDGWICK COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY BRIAN ETHERIDGE WHO WAS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY SEPTEMBER 28TH.
THE OLYMPICS CONTINUE AFTER AN EXCITING WEEKEND. THE UNITED STATES LEADS WITH SIX MEDALS…GERMANY IS RIGHT BEHIND WITH FOUR AND FRANCE AND CANADA ARE TIED WITH THREE. CANADA THOUGHT THEY HAD THEIR FIRST HOME GOLD MEDAL AFTER JENNIFER HEIL’S MOGUL PERFORMANCE UNTIL AMERICAN HANNAH KEARNEY CLINCHED THE GOLD AT THE END DEFEATING HEIL BY .94 OF A POINT. CANADA FINALLY GOT THEIR FIRST GOLD IN MEN’S MOGULS AS ALEXANDRE BILDEAU PULLED OFF AN UPSET WHILE AUSTRALIA’S DALE BEGG-SMITH TOOK SILVER AND AMERICAN BRYON WILSON BROUGHT HOME BRONZE. SOME EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY ARE ALPINE SKIING, SPEED SKATING, SNOWBOARDING, AND PAIRS FIGURE SKATING.
ACTOR KEVIN SMITH WAS KICKED OFF A SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT OVER THE WEEKEND. SMITH, WHO USUALLY BUYS TWO SEATS, DECIDED TO FLY STANDBY WHERE THERE WAS ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT. AFTER SITTING DOWN HE WAS ASKED TO LEAVE. SMITH HAS TAKEN TO TWITTER TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW HE FEELS. HE WROTE “I BROKE NO REGULATIONS, OFFERERD NO ‘SAFETY RISK’ (WHAT, WAS I GONNA ROLL ON A FELLOW PASSENGER?” SOUTHWEST OFFERED SMITH A ONE-HUNDRED DOLLAR VOUCHER BUT HE SAID HE WAS IN NO MOOD TO ACCEPT AN APOLOGY.
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