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4A Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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What player from KU’s 2008 nationaltitle team has scored the most NBA points so far?
A:
Six players from that team are playing in the NBA. The players and their NBA career scoring totals heading into the AllStar break: 1. Brandon Rush, 1,796 points; Mario Chalmers, 1,652; Darrell Arthur, 1,039; Darnell Jackson, 229; Sherron Collins, 17; and Cole Aldrich, seven. Russell Robinson, who had played professionally in Turkey and in the NBA Developmental League, is a pro basketball player in Spain. Sasha Kaun, sidelined by knee injury, is playing professionally in Russia. Jeremy Case is an assistant men’s basketball coach working under head coach Dickey Nutt at Southeast Missouri State University.
Q:
I heard the weather term “red flag warning” the other day. What does that mean?
A:
According to the National Weather Service, a red flag warning is issued to warn that conditions are conducive to fire growth. Those conditions include “strong winds, low relative humidity and warm temperatures.” On Sunday, such a warning was issued for southern Kansas.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT
Man faces 8 charges for sex crimes
Spring turns focus to severe weather
Leavenworth County prosecutors have filed eight charges against a 64-year-old Tonganoxie man who is accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl over a two-year period ending earlier in February. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said the defendant appeared in court Friday. Prosecutors have COURTS filed two counts of child rape, one from February of this year and another from February of 2009. The man also faces two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and four counts of aggravated criminal sodomy with a child younger than 14. The Journal-World generally does not identify sex crime suspects unless they are convicted. Thompson said the defendant is next due in Leavenworth County District Court on March 18.
Emergency managers, storm spotters, meteorologists and weather enthusiasts will gather March 19 for this year’s Severe Weather Symposium, hosted by Douglas County Emergency Management. The event is geared toward storm spotters, but is also open to the public. It will be held from 7 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H., and costs $15 for each participant. Pre-registration is required by March 11 and can be done online at douglas-county.com/online_services/em/volunteering/symposium/em_symposium_regform.aspx. Participants can expect to learn about advanced storm development, the importance of storm spotting reports and safety precautions for spotters. David Imy, operations branch chief for the Storm Prediction Center, and Scott Blair, a forecaster with the Weather Forecast Office, are among the guest presenters at the event. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable discussion.
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• Audio-Reader, KU’s reading service for the visually impaired, reported that someone stole eight of its computers worth more than $6,000 from its office, 1120 W. 11th St. The touchscreen computers allow readers to access newspapers online, and resize the typeface on the screen much like a smart phone. The theft occurred sometime between Jan. 30 and Feb. 16, and KU public safety officers are investigating. The computers were purchased as part of a grant from the Douglas County Community Foundation, which paid for 13 of the computers. Audio-Reader raised private funds to match the grant, and all told the project cost more than $17,000. “The project will continue to go forward,” Audio-Reader Director Janet Campbell said in a statement. “Individual recording studios will be outfitted. The ‘live studio’ can’t be upgraded right now and we won’t have any (computers) for backup.”
CONDITION UPDATE • A 24-year-old Olathe man was listed in serious condition Monday afternoon after he was injured early Sunday morning in a single-vehicle accident in southeastern Douglas County, according to a spokesman for Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has identified the injured
man as Blaine Angell, and Wellsville police officers have said they were pursuing Angell’s vehicle before it rolled over at 1:30 a.m. in the 200 section of East 2300 Road, where the road turns from pavement to gravel. Wellsville officers had initially tried to stop Angell in a 2007 Mini Cooper before he crashed while headed north in southeastern Douglas County. Angell, who was ejected from the car during the crash, was flown to KU Hospital by helicopter ambulance, and sheriff’s officers said they suspect alcohol contributed to the wreck.
The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed. The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name. LAWRENCE • The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged. • Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported. • Holdups and robberies.
BIRTHS Patrick and Crystal Leming, Lecompton, a girl, Friday. Namita Dhakal and Ford Ballantyne, Lawrence, a girl, Monday. Courtney Kueser and Ryan Othmer, Lawrence, a boy, Monday. Travis and Darian Mendell, Ottawa, a girl, Monday.
CORRECTIONS The screening of Buster Keaton’s silent film “The General” will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. The time was incorrect in an article that ran Sunday.
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