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Mystery donor strikes again
The University of Alaska Anchorage has been given US$7 million by a mystery donor who has now given at least US$81.5 million in total to 15 colleges run by women, school chancellor Fran Ulmer said on Friday. School officials said US$6 million would be used for scholarships targeting women and minorities and the rest for a science learning center opening next fall. The anonymous donor has been giving the money over the past two months.
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Police fine drunken cowboy
A man in a cowboy hat who rode a horse through a Denver, Colorado, suburb has been cited for riding an animal under the influence. Police say Brian Drone was given a US$25 traffic violation ticket in a strip mall parking lot Friday. Drone told KUSA-TV that he was out for a “joyride” in Arvada with his horse, Cricket. Police said deciding what to do with the horse was a “tricky call” because “you can tow a car” in typical drunk driving cases. A stable owner offered Drone and his horse a ride home.
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Police find suspect’s Jeep
Police say they have found a vehicle that belongs to a former University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two other people outside a community theater last week. Athens-Clarke police said on Friday morning that they found George Zinkhan’s vehicle overnight in Clarke County, where the university is located. Police have not yet found Zinkhan, who was last seen driving a red Jeep after dropping his children off with a neighbor. The 57-year-old former business professor is wanted in the April 25 shooting of his wife and two members of her community theater group.
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Company recalls Hola Pops
A food distribution company in Calexico, California, is recalling candy imported from Mexico because it contains high levels of lead. King Midas Inc said on Friday it was warning stores to stop selling Hola Pop, a caramel lollipop with a salted apricot in the center. The company says recent analysis of Hola Pop by the California Department of Public Health found that the candy contained a high level of lead.
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Porta-potties cushion crash
A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt. Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna 182 crashed on Friday afternoon in Washington state after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma. Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said the plane was about 45m in the air when the engine quit and that the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn’t make it. The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets in a storage yard.
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Jack Kemp dies of cancer
Jack Kemp, a star football quarterback who became a congressman, Cabinet secretary and Republican vice presidential nominee, died on Saturday at age 73. Kemp died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, his son Jimmy Kemp said. He served 18 years as a congressman from Buffalo, New York, after starring with the Buffalo Bills. As a Representative, he championed tax cuts, free trade and a return to the gold standard. Kemp was Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole’s running mate in the 1996 election.
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