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Lombard DUKE wise to seek Madison, Wise Wednesday 9:15 p.m. BigTen/ACC Challenge plea deal Blue Devils prep for Badger Challenge •
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Just days after getting back to Durham from its first games outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium,* Duke’s early-season schedule doesn’t get any easier. After two hard-fought victories over Arizona State and Connecticut last week to win the NIT Season Tip-Off, the Blue Devils head to Madison, Wise, where they will face Wisconsin (4-1) tonight at 9:15 p.m. in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Duke (6-0) is a perfect 10-0 in the Challenge and isn’t prepared to let its unblemished record slip away this year. “We definitely don’t want to lose and when it comes to going on the road to do it, it definitely gets very serious,” junior Nolan Smith said, “It’s going to be a hostile environment.... [The coaches] definitely take it to another level for this game.” The No. 6 Blue Devils defeated Wisconsin two years ago, 82-58, in the Challenge, but are not sitting back and expecting another easy victory. “They have some guys in their starting lineup who were in that game two years ago,” seniorLance Thomas said. “We know those guys didn’t forget how we won last
WML reported Tuesday. Frank Lombard, a former professor and associate director of Duke’s Center for HealthPolicy, appeared in court Tuesday after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia filed a criminal information, signaling the U.S. Attorney’s intention to seek a plea deal. The statutory minimum for sexual exploitation of a minor is 30 years, but a plea deal may cut the sentence in half. Lombard was arrested June 24 during a sting operation conducted by the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department for the District of Columbia’s Child Exploitation Task Force. According to the arrest affidavit, Lombard allegedly offered an undercover police officer the opportunity to watch him perform sexual acts with his 5-year-old foster child and fly to Durham to have sex with the young boy himself. Lombard’s attorney could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
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Jon Scheyer and Duke defeatedWisconsin last time they played in 2007's Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
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drug-resistantflu found at hospital from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE
After extensive testing, no more cases of drug-resistant HINI virus have been discovered at the Hospital,
WRAL reported Tuesday.
Officials announced Nov. 20 that the Hospital had four cases of the virus, which is resistant to Tamiflu, a drug used to treat both HINI and the seasonal flu. Three of the patients who contracted the drug-resistant strain have died. All four of the patients were being treated in an isolated unit in the Hospital before their cases were announced in a Nov. 20 news release, which noted that the patients were all extremely sick with “underlying severely compromised immune systems and multiple other complex medical conditions.” SEE
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Two men robbed a University Drive business at gunpoint Tuesday evening. No one was injured in the incident. Five Duke students—all members of The Chronicle’s staff—were in Local Yogurt at approximately 7:25 p.m. when two masked men entered the shop and demanded money. Local Yogurt Owner Ted Domville and six other patrons, including two young children, were in the store at the time. “[The first man] pointed the gun over the counter and said, ‘Give me the money.’” Domville said. “I went over to the register but he seemed to think things were going too slow, so he reached across [the counter], grabbed the money from my hand and took off.” Both men were dressed in dark colors and wearing black ski masks. Domville described the men as approximately s’B” and ofnormal build. The first man entered the store carrying a small gun, similar to a revolver, said Chronicle staff writer Ciaran O’Connor, a freshman who was in the store during the robbery. The man briefly waved the gun in the air before taking a shot at the ceiling. The store’s patrons prompt-
ly dropped to the floor, protecting the two children, O’Connor added. The men took off with “at least a couple hundred dollars” from the register, Domville said. “They were in a hurry. I didn’t even get through handling all the bills [in the register] and he Just took what I had in my hand,” Domville said. “The whole thing happened in less than 30 seconds.” Meanwhile, the second man swept the customers of visible purses and wallets, O’Connor noted. “They definitely knew what they were doing and planned it and had the car running,” he said. “It was a well executed robbery—they got what they wanted and no one saw their car.” Chronicle staff writer Jessica Chang, a freshman, was robbed of her laptop and wallet in the incident after a brief struggle with the robber to keep her belongings. “I heard the gun shot and we all ran next to the counter, we were all huddled there and when they were leaving, one of the guys came and grabbed my bag from me,” Chang said. “It was all just really surreal—l couldn’t even believe
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