12-07-10

IN LOCAL NEWS…

MORE THAN TWELVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE THEIR DEGREES. ONE THOUSAND OF THE DEGREES WITH BE BACHELORS DEGREES. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND HUMAN ECOLOGY WILL KICK OFF COMMENCEMENT ON SATURDAY AT 9 IN THE MORNING. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING WILL SHUT COMMENCEMENT DOWN. FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER….GRADUATION WILL BE STREAMED LIVE ONLINE AT WWW.KSTATE.EDU/GRADUATION.

ACCORDING TO THE MANHATTAN MERCURY…TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT CITY COMMISSIONERS WILL VOTE ON A PROPOSED ORDINANCE THAT WOULD MAKE GENDER IDENTITY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION A PROTECTED CLAUSE. RALLIES TOOK PLACE IN THE K-STATE STUDENT UNION LAST WEEK. THE VOTE WILL END MONTHS OF RESEARCH AND SPECULATION. AT THE END OF THE AUG. 24 MEETING WHEN COMMISSIONERS LAST DISCUSSED THE ORDINANCE, 3 OF THE 5 COMMISSIONERS APPEARED TO BE IN FAVOR OF THE NEW ORDINANCE.

IN STATE NEWS…

THE TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL REPORTS…A PREGNANT WOMEN AND ANOTHER MAN WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AFTER THEIR CAR WAS STRUCK BY A SEMI. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON INTERSTATE 470. KANSAS HIGHWAY PATROL LT. HAROLD TILLMAN SAID THE VICTIMS 1988 GRAND MERCURY MARQUIS BLEW A TIRE. THIS CAUSED THE 28 YEAR OLD DRIVER TO OVERCORRECT. THE OVERCORRECTION CAUSED THE CAR TO SPIN ACROSS THE WESTBOUND LANES. THE DRIVER MIGUEL PANUCO AND HIS WIFE WERE TRANSPORTED TO STORMONT-VAIL REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER. PANUCO WAS LISTED IN HIS SERIOUS CONDITION. HIS WIFE WAS LISTED IN FAIR CONDITION.

ACCORDING TO THE TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL…IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL…THE TOPEKA POLICE DEPARTMENT VISITED 23 LOCAL BUSINESSES INCLUDING LIQUOR STORE, GROCERY STORES AND CONVENIENCE STORES AS UNDERAGE UNDERCOVER OFFICER. FIVE OF THE TWENTY THREE BUSINESSES SOLD TO THE OFFICER.

ACCORDING TO THE KANSAS CITY STAR…THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HAS REOPENED A SCIENCE BUILDING THAT WAS SHUT DOWN TO A STRONG CHEMICAL ODOR. OFFICIALS SEARCHED THE BUILDING BUT WHERE UNABLE TO FIND THE ORIGIN OF THE ODOR. ONE WORKER WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER COMPLAINING OF DIZZINESS AND A HEADACHE. THE BUILDING WAS EVACUATED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS…

CARRIE UNDERWOOD WAS THE STAR OF THE NIGHT AT THE INAUGURAL AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS. THE FORMER AMERICAN IDOL CONTESTANT TOOK HOME SIX AWARDS INCLUDING ARTIST AND ALBUM OF THE YEAR. UNDERWOOD IS FRESH OFF OF HOSTING THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AWARDS. WINNERS WERE CHOSEN BY AN ONLINE VOTE. THE AWARDS SHOW AIRED LAST NIGHT ON FOX.