Tuesday, April 20, 2010

News 4-20-10

FORMER K-STATE QUARTERBACK IS DEAD AFTER A HIKING ACCIDENT. DETAILS AREN’T AVAILABLE BUT 26-YEAR OLD DYLAN MEIER SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES DURING A FAMILY HIKING TRIP IN ARKANSAS. THE PITTSBURG NATIVE PLAYED FOR THE WILDCATS FROM 2002 THROUGH 2006 WHERE HE APPEARED IN 35 GAMES. MEIER GRADUATED WITH A BUSINESS FINANCE DEGREE AND PLAYED PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL IN EUROPE. WE’LL BRING YOU MORE DETAILS WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.


AN EMPORIA MAN HAS BEEN CONVICTED IN A FATAL SHOOTING LAST SEPTEMBER. 21-YEAR OLD SAMUEL LLAMAS HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF THE MURDER CHARGE AND AIDING IN A SHOOTING INTO AN UNOCCUPIED VEHICLE AFTER ONLY FOUR HOURS OF DELIBERATION. WITNESSES DESCRIBED ANOTHER MAN, MIKE NAVARRO, AS THE SHOOTER BUT MOVED TO MEXICO AND HASN’T BEEN SEEN SINCE. THE PROSECUTOR SAYS LLAMAS WAS WITH NAVARRO WHEN HE SHOT OMAR FLORES AT LEAST TEN TIMES BECAUSE HE WOULDN’T PAY FOR A BAD BATCH OF METHAMPHETAMINE.


THE TWO MEN WE TOLD YOU ABOUT IN JANUARY WITH COCAIN IN THEIR AIRPLANE HAVE BEEN SENT TO PRISON. 40- YEAR OLD DEAN MOYA AND 31-YEAR OLD RICHARD VICKERY, BOTH OF HEMET CALIFORNIA, WERE SENTENCED YESTERDAY IN FEDERAL COURT IN WICHITA. MOYA WAS GIVEN FIVE YEARS AND VICKERY SIX. THE TWO PLEADED GUILTY EARLIER THIS YEAR TO AIDING AND ABETTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF COCAINE AFTER A DRUG DOG DETECTED COCAINE WHEN THEY LANDED AT LIBERAL MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.


SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY HAS LANDED BACK ON EARTH. IT WAS DELAYED YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER BUT THE SPACE CRAFT AND SEVEN ASTRONAUTS ARE BACK ON THE GROUND. DISCOVERY HAD BEEN ON A 6-MILLION MILE JOURNEY TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND ALSO HAD A RARE FLYOVER OF THE AMERICAN HEARTLAND FLYING OVER STATES INCLUDING KANSAS.


THE CENSUS HAS FOUND WOMEN ARE NOW JUST AS LIKELY TO HAVE FINISHED COLLEGE AS MEN AS LONG WITH BEING EQUAL IN EARNING ADVANCED DEGREES. THEIR NUMBERS SHOW 29-PERCENT OF ALL WOMEN IN THE U-S HAVE EARNED AT LEAST A BACHELOR’S DEGREE COMPARED TO 30-PERCENT OF MEN. THEY ARE ALSO 50-50 IN HAVING MASTER’S…PROFESSIONAL DEGREES…OR DOCTORATES. AT THE CURRENT TRENDS WOMEN COULD SURPASS MEN IN TOTAL ADVANCED DEGREES EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE BEHIND IN BUSINESS…SCIENCE…AND ENGINEERING.


ON TOP OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN SANDRA BULLOCK’S LIFE LATELY, SHE’S NOW BEING ASKED TO GIVE BACK HER RAZZIE AWARD FOR WORST ACTRESS. DON’T WORRY THOUGH – SHE ISN’T GETTING HER TITLE TAKEN, THEY JUST WANT TO SWAP TROPHIES. RAZZIE FOUNDER JOHN WILSON SAYS BULLOCK WAS GIVEN THE ORIGINAL RAZZIE BY MISTAKE AND WANTS TO GIVE HER A REPLICA. WILSON SAYS HE WAITED TO BRING IT UP BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING HAPPENING AND ADDS “I HARDLY THINK THE RAZZIE AWARDS SHOULD BE ANY KIND OF PRIORITY IN HER LIFE RIGHT NOW.”

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