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Among the Janet Jacksons, Kanye Wests
and Taylor Swifts at New Yorks Radio City
Music Hall for this years MTV Video Music
Awards sat University freshman Shane
Reynolds and nine of his high school
friends.
For most of the show, the group
blended into the audience, politely
clapping with the announcement of
each award. That is, until they were
announced as Moonman winners.
When they announced our
names we all just went crazy,
Reynolds said. There were people
all over staring at us like we were
nuts until they realized it was us
that won. But then random people started
coming up to us and giving us high fives and
hugs and stuff. It was pretty cool.
Last weekend, Reynolds and his friends
accepted an MTV Video Music Award for
Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band
Video for a video that won a contest spon-
sored by MTV, Pepsi and the makers of
the Rock Band video game. The group
of Glenwood High School graduates from
Chatham, Ill., who are now attending dif-
ferent colleges throughout the country, can
go down in VMA history. They are the first
recipients of a coveted Moonman award
for a video featuring only Rock Band video
game instruments. They are also the first
people to receive a VMA for any type of
consumer contest.
As the grand prize winners of the contest,
the group of friends were flown to New
York City and provided hotel accommoda-
tions so they could attend the 26th annual
MTV Video Music Awards. They each also
received $600 for spending expenses and
gift baskets from MTV and Pepsi.
Best of all, they got their faces broad-
cast over primetime television during a
30-second commercial in the middle of
the live awards show.
BIG WINNERS
The day after online voting ended,
Reynolds and his friends received calls from
MTV telling them their video was the win-
ner.
I was shocked I didnt even know
what to say, Reynolds said. Kids from cen-
tral Illinois dont win things like this.
He said he believed one advantage the
group had in the online voting was the fact
that they had so many people in different
places spreading the word for a common
cause. Reynolds high school classmates
now attend colleges from Colorado to
Florida. That allowed them to rally stu-
dents at different universities to vote for
their video.
Another star of the music video, Jake
Giganti, freshman at the University of
Colorado at Boulder said he was shocked
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BY DANIEL JOHNSON
djohnson@kansan.com
Hundreds of community members
are expected to march through down-
town Lawrence tonight to protest sex-
ual violence in the community.
The march will be part of the Take
Back the Night rally that will begin
at 5 p.m. in South Park, 11th and
Massachusetts streets, and end at 10
p.m. in Buford M. Watson, Jr. Park,
Sixth and Tennessee streets.
The event is Lawrences version of
the internationally held rally, accord-
ing to www.takebackthenight.org. Take
Back the Night is a nonprofit orga-
nization that hosts rallies to protest
sexual violence against women world-
wide.
Jesse Jones, the events organizer and
an employee of Womens Transitional
Care Services, said approximately 200
men, women and children attended
the event last year. He said nearly half
of the attendees were students.
He said students were an important
part of the rally because they made up
a significant portion of the Lawrence
population.
There is a need to create solidar-
ity between students and the broader
community on the issues of safety and
accountability, Jones said.
According to the organizations Web
site, the Lawrence rally will include
local food vendors, live music, chil-
drens activities and guest speakers.
The event will also feature displays
from several organizations including
the Clothesline Project, the Pantyline
Project, and the Silent Witness Project,
among displays from other commu-
nity organizations. Each display will
center on raising awareness of domes-
tic violence.
Jones said the event would be fam-
ily friendly, but that the speak out
circle would be uncensored. During
the speak out people will be invited
to openly share their experiences with
sexual violence.
The event will conclude with a
candlelight vigil in Buford Watson
Park, according to the organizations
Web site.
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Rally:
WhEN: Tonight
WhERE: Begins in South Park,
ends in Buford M. Watson Jr.
Park
SchEDUlE:
5:00 - Childrens activi-
ties, organizational tabling,
Clothesliine Project, Pantyline
Project, food from Thai House
and Bambinos Cafe.
5:15 - Music from Yucca Roots
6:30 Guest Speakers: Amber
Versola; Curt and Christie
Brungart (of 1,100 Torches)
7:30 - March down Massachu-
setts Street
Candlelight vigil and speak out
circles immediately following
the march at Buford M. Watson,
Jr. Park
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Shane reynolds, Springfeld, Ill., freshman, proudly displays the VMA ticket he earned by winning the Pepsi Rock BandVideo competition. Reynolds and nine other friends fromhis hometown created theNerds In Disguiseand were
invited to attend the MTVVideo Music Awards and walk down the red carpet. It was really soft carpet,Reynolds said. Reynolds and his friends will receive personally engraved Moonman awards.
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BY ALY VAN DYKE
avandyke@kansan.com
Tucked away in the corner of the
KU Dining Services kitchen in the
Kansas Union is a large, powder
blue industrial elevator.
Most days, the elevator carries
staff and food between levels. But
in the summer and fall months, the
elevator serves a different purpose:
it allows KU Dining staff to reach a
rooftop garden and harvest herbs
and vegetables for daily specials on
campus.
Planted in the corner of the roof
overlooking Smith Hall, behind
a brown iron gate, are whiskey
barrels overflowing with sage and
other garden herbs. On the right
are white buckets with vines climb-
ing up wires, sprouting with bell
peppers, jalapeos and tomatoes.
And it all goes into the food on
campus.
Over the last two years, weve
been watching the distances our
food travels more closely, said
Janna Traver, executive chef with
KU Dining Services.
Traver said she began the Union
Rooftop Garden last year in an
effort to make the department
more sustainable.
Around that same time, Traver
started going to the local Farmers
Market and communicating with
farmers throughout Kansas.
She said the effort to support
local food had doubled since last
year. Now, about 10 percent of
KU Dining Services purchases are
locally grown or processed.
She said it purchased local pro-
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Janna Traver, executive chef for KU Dining, harvests herbs and vegetables used on campus dishes Wednesday at the Kansas Union.
Her Union Rooftop Garden began last year to make food production more sustainable and increase purchasing of local produce.
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Sixth Street, a University
student reported the theft
of a GPS and miscellaneous
property, at a total loss of about
$140
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11th and Massachusetts streets,
a University student reported
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Your Life workshop will begin
at 9 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The School of Business Career
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The Third Thursdays at SMA
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in the Spencer Museum of Art.
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international
1. Five bodies discovered
on roof at university
LA PAZ, Bolivia A Bolivian
university director is in police
custody after fve bodies were
discovered decomposing on the
roof of a building, police said
Wednesday.
Rector Juan Villaroel Rodriguez
told police he bought the bodies
from a hospital in La Paz, Police
Col. Julio Cesar Miranda said.
Police found the partially
dismembered bodies on Tuesday
after neighbors complained
about foul odors from the top
of the building, which houses
a movie theater on its ground
foor and the universitys medical
classrooms on upper foors.
2. Lost cat returns home
after 3 years, 2,400 miles
HOBART, Australia A cat
named Clyde was reunited with
his owner Wednesday after a
mysterious three-year odyssey in
which the long-haired Himala-
yan strayed 2,400 miles into the
Australian Outback.
Ashleigh Sullivan, 19, said she
had given up hope of ever fnd-
ing Clyde after he vanished from
her family home in Tasmania.
A nurse found Clyde wander-
ing at a hospital in the remote
town of Cloncurry and cared for
him for four months before tak-
ing him to a local vet.
The vet traced Clydes owner
from an identifcation microchip
imbedded under the cats skin.
An animal transport company
returned the cat to Hobart for
free fying most of the way.
3. Maoist protesters gather
at university graduation
KATMANDU, Nepal Hun-
dreds of supporters of Nepals
former communist rebels clashed
with police Wednesday during an
protest at a university where the
prime minister was attending a
graduation ceremony.
The Maoists waved black fags
and chanted slogans against
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar
Nepal and President Ram Baran
Yadav outside Tribhuwan Univer-
sity on the southern edge of the
capital.
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4. County to pay $5.5M to
wrongly convicted man
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. A
California county will pay $5.5
million to a man who spent
nearly 20 years in prison after
being wrongly convicted of child
molestation.
Kern County supervisors ap-
proved the settlement for John
Stoll in a closed session Tuesday.
Stoll was one of 46 people
charged for their alleged roles in
child molestation rings in 1982-
86. Twenty-four of the 27 convic-
tions, many of which involved
no physical evidence, have been
reversed as witnesses recanted
stories and investigators tech-
niques were questioned.
Stoll was freed in 2004 after
fve of his six alleged victims said
they lied.
5. Woman arrested for
spanking strangers child
CINCINNATI A woman took
a strangers toddler son over her
knee and spanked him three
times inside a Salvation Army
store after he said something
that annoyed her, police said
Wednesday.
Gloria Ballard was arrested on
an assault charge in the Tuesday
incident. In a court appearance
Wednesday, she asked for a pub-
lic defender and a not guilty plea
was entered for her.
The charge carries a maximum
sentence of six months in jail and
a $1,000 fne.
6. Texas school board will
debate history curriculum
AUSTIN, Texas The social
studies curriculum in Texas is
creating an ideological debate.
The board will begin hearings
Thursday on what students will
learn about key fgures in Ameri-
can history.
Among the questions is how
much class time is spent on such
fgures as farmworker advocate
Cesar Chavez, former Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
and conservative radio talk-show
host Rush Limbaugh. Conserva-
tives behind the proposals say
there are already many liberals in
school lessons.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. A Yale
graduate student whose body was
found hidden in a wall in her lab
building was suffocated, according
to autopsy released Wednesday,
hours after a person of interest
was questioned and released. Dr.
Wayne Carvers office released the
results three days after the body of
24-year-old Annie Le was found
in a Yale medical school research
building. Carver had previously
announced Les death as a homi-
cide.
The office says her death was
caused by traumatic asphyxia
due to neck compression. That
means the cause could include a
choke hold or some other form of
suffocation caused by a hand or
an object, such as a pipe, though
authorities are not releasing details
on her manner of death.
Earlier Wednesday, police
released a Yale animal research
technician from custody after
collecting DNA samples and
questioning him in Les killing.
Raymond Clark III had been taken
in Tuesday night at his apartment
in Middletown, Conn., and was
released to his attorney, New
Haven police said.
The attorney, David Dworski,
of Fairfield, said his client is com-
mitted to proceeding appropriate-
ly with the authorities. He would
not comment further.
Investigators are hoping to
figure out within days whether
Clark can be ruled out as the killer.
He has been described as a per-
son of interest, not a suspect, in
Les death. Her body was found
Sunday, which was to have been
her wedding day.
New Haven Police Chief James
Lewis said police were hoping to
compare DNA taken from Clarks
hair, fingernails and saliva with
more than 150 pieces of evidence
collected from the crime scene.
CRIME
Autopsy released in Yale grad students death
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Freshman Diana Stoianov, 17, and other students hold a candlelight vigil for graduate
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when he received the call that they
had won.
I felt a feeling of overall happi-
ness but didnt really know what
to do at first, it was just completely
surreal, Giganti said.
Reynolds mother, Jill, said the
groups hometown was also very
helpful throughout the contest.
When I saw the final five, I knew
they had a pretty good chance,
Jill said. It was the talk of town.
Everyone was asking Did you vote
your 10 times today?
Mariana Agathoklis, spokes-
woman for MTV Games, said all
of the judges were impressed by
the creativity of the video and
unanimously chose the group as
a finalist.
It had so many key elements of
a fun video great music, a rock-
ing party, pool scene, a fire and
fireworks, Agathoklis said. They
looked like they were really having
fun.
CELEBRITY
After arriving in New York on
Tuesday, the group recorded the
MTV television spot that aired
live during the awards show. They
shot the promo in the MTV Times
Square studio, where Total Request
Live used to be filmed before it was
canceled in 2008.
We were filming the promo when
someone looked out the window
and saw our video playing on Times
Square, Reynolds said. There were
people standing around watching it
so we started knocking on the win-
dow and waving. They recognized
us and started taking pictures of us.
It was pretty cool.
The afternoon of the awards
show, Reynolds said, the group was
invited to view a dress rehearsal
for the live event. They also had
the chance to walk
down the same
iconic red carpet
usually reserved
for celebrities.
It was very soft
carpet, I almost
felt like I was walk-
ing on a cloud,
Reynolds said.
There were lights
flashing all around
from people taking
pictures. It was just awesome.
Reynolds and his friends decided
to stay in character for the event,
and dressed up like the nerds in
their video. Yet, while they were
greeted at the red carpet with plenty
of handshakes and high-fives, they
also got their fair share of stares.
There were literally thousands
of people lining the streets and we
definitely got some weird looks
from some of them, Reynolds
said. People could see our red car-
pet passes so they knew we were
involved with the show, but I think
a lot of them were wondering Why
are these guys dressed up like
nerds?
Shortly before the show, the
group took their seats at Radio City
Music Hall and were surrounded by
celebrities. The awards show fea-
tured performances from Beyonc,
Green Day, Taylor Swift and Lady
Gaga, to name a few.
At about the halfway point in the
show, right after the Green Day per-
formance, the Nerds
in Disguise were
announced as win-
ners of a VMA. Their
promotional spot then
aired, where Reynolds
and friends could
be seen in the MTV
Times Square studio
thanking all the view-
ers for helping them
win a Moonman, fol-
lowed by a short clip
of their video.
Along with about 200 resi-
dents from Chatham, Jill Reynolds
watched the show from a watch
party at a local bar.
When they came on, the only
thing you could hear was cheering
and hollering. It was very exciting,
she said.
Reynolds said he thoroughly
enjoyed the show from the opening
Michael Jackson tribute to the clos-
ing remarks, but one act in particu-
lar still sticks out in his mind.
The best performance was when
Jay-Z came out to close the show
with Empire State of Mind. That
was amazing, he said.
As for the big story of that night,
when West interrupted Swifts
acceptance speech, Reynolds said
America should have seen it com-
ing.
At first we all were shocked and
thought that it might have been
staged, Reynolds said. But thats
who Kanye is; whenever hes near
the spotlight hes going to find a way
to get in it. And he definitely did
that night.
IN RETROSPECT
Looking back on the trip,
Reynolds said he thought it would
be one of the most memorable
experiences of his life.
It was awesome just walking
through New York City and see-
ing all these landmarks that you
always hear about, like the Brooklyn
Bridge, Empire State Building,
Statue of Liberty, he said.
Besides the celebrities that
packed Radio City Music Hall for
the awards show, Reynolds said he
saw several famous people walk-
ing the streets and felt as if he fit
right in.
Being treated like a celebrity is
unbelievable, Reynolds said. All of
the promoters treated us great and
the people of New York are some of
the nicest people Ive ever met. They
get a bad rap sometimes, but they
are really nice people there.
On top of all the memorable
events from the trip, Giganti said
another great part was reuniting
with his high school buddies and
hanging out like the old days.
The whole thing was just great,
from the time we got there until the
time we left. Giganti said. I really
didnt want to leave because it was
just so awesome.
Reynolds said MTV is cur-
rently having the Moonman award
engraved and will ship it to him
within a few weeks. Reynolds said
he couldnt wait to receive the award
and planned to keep it in his resi-
dence hall room.
When he was shooting the televi-
sion spot, Reynolds actually got to
hold a real Moonman, and he said
he was impressed with how solid
the statue seemed.
That was one solid trophy, Ill
say that, he said. I was shaking just
holding it.
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They recognized us
and started taking
pictures of us. It was
pretty cool.
Shane reynoldS
Chatham, Ill. freshman
Contributed photo
theNerds in Disguise waved to fans fromthe former Total Request Live Studio at Times Square in NewYork City. Their music video can be seen
playing on a screen outside and to the left of the group. Back rowfromleft to right: Matt Hartzler, Taylor Blake, Mike Ranos and Charlie Clausner.
Middle rowformleft to right: Ben Parks, David OBrien, Mitch Falter, Jake Giganti and Shane Reynolds. Front: Alec Veldhuizen.
Sept. 8: reynolds arrives
in new york and tours MTVs
headquarters. The group
recorded the MTV spot that
aired live during the awards
show.
Sept. 9: reynolds meets
with Spin magazine for a
photo shoot and interview.
The magazine expects to
feature the group in the
november issue.
Sept. 10: reynolds visits
with MTV Games executives
and the creator of the rock
Band video game. They also
previewed the new Beatles
rock Band game.
Sept. 11: reynolds visits
ground zero and attends a
memorial service for those
who died during the 2001
attacks. That evening he at-
tends the new york yankees-
Baltimore orioles game.
Sept. 12: reynolds attends
a beneft concert hosted by
MTV featuring performances
from Kid Cudi, Phoenix and
dJ Clinton Sparks. during the
show, they are announced as
winners of a VMa and asked
to come on stage.
Sept. 13: reynolds attends
a red carpet event and the
26th annual MTV Video Music
awards.
In the music video that
won reynolds and his friends
the MTV contest, the group
goes by the name of nerds
in disguise.They perform
lits My own Worst enemy
using only instruments from
rock Band. The video can still
be viewed online at www.
pepsirockband.com.
reynolds said the group
knew from the beginning
they wanted to depict a
college party in their video.
Making the party look re-
alistic, however, became a
challenge within the contest
rules, which stated that
all video submissions had
to incorporate both
Pepsi and rock Band
products, could only
feature music from a
pre-approved list of
songs and could
have no more
than 10 people
shown.
The problem
is you cant have
a party with only
10 people, reynolds said,
so we decided to double
each of us up to make it look
like there were actually 20
people.
In the video, each person
plays two characters: a nerd
and a rock star. reynolds said
the main message was there
could be unity between two
cliques of diferent people,
such as rock stars and nerds.
The party-goers can be seen
downing plenty of Pepsi in
keg-party fashion.
nerds in disguise is a
gifted group of college stu-
dents, aspiring flm makers
and rock Band
lovers with
real talent,
said Christina
Glorioso, vice
president of market-
ing partnerships for MTV
Games, in a press release
announcing the group as
winners. Their video was
really creative, and clearly
the fans agreed.
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transportation
More people taking city, KU buses
BY MEGAN HEACOCK
mheacock@kansan.com
The coordination of KU on
Wheels and the Lawrence Transit
System is finally on track and
with promising results.
The monthly Lawrence Transit
Ridership Report showed that the
Lawrence bus system, known as
the T, increased its ridership 37
percent this August, with 48,313
riders. That is compared with last
August, which had 35,349 riders.
Before coordinating with KU on
Wheels, there was major concern
about the Ts survival because of
funding issues and lack of use, tran-
sit administrator Robert Nugent
said. The situation improved when
Lawrence residents voted for a
0.2 percent sales tax increase in
November to help fund the transit
system. KU on Wheels and the T
began their partnership in Aug.
2008 when they allowed riders of
one system to ride the other system
for free. Since the T coordinated
its routes with KU on Wheels this
summer, ridership has increased.
Nugent said the addition of
Route 11, which connects down-
town, the main campus and retail
stores at 31st and Iowa streets,
caused the jump in ridership.
It appears that Route 11 has
accommodated the needs of both
KU students and city riders, he
said.
According to the Lawrence
Transit Web site, Route 11 is the
first coordinated transit route
between KU on Wheels and the T.
It began running Aug. 17. Several
apartment complexes, including
The Exchange, which opened this
fall, are on the route.
Derek Meier, transportation
coordinator for KU on Wheels,
said students benefited greatly
from the alliance.
It has provided students who
live downtown to have service
more often and longer than ever
before, he said.
Meier said the bus systems
have added 150 hours of service.
Students will still be able to use the
T for free when KU buses arent
running, such as during evenings,
Saturdays and school breaks,
according to the Lawrence Transit
Web site.
Benjamin Wright, Eudora fresh-
man, uses the T on occasion and
said the coordination was a great
idea. He said in his experience,
the T was usually on time and effi-
cient. His only complaint was the
lack of hand sanitizer on both KU
on Wheels and the T.
They should get some hand
sanitizer with a thousand people
getting on and off those buses
every day, he said.
The Web site warned that KU
buses did not have bike racks, an
adjustment that city bus riders
would have to make. Meier said
KU buses would not be getting
bike racks in the future.
The KU transit system is
extremely high volume, high rid-
ership. And that doesnt work well
with bike racks because a bus can
hold 70 to 80 people, but theres
only room for two bikes, he said.
It becomes problematic for pas-
sengers to get onto a bus and expect
to have a bike storage spot.
Interested passengers can get
the new Guide to Ride booklet,
a coordinated effort by KU on
Wheels and the Lawrence Transit
System to provide all route maps
and schedules in one place. An
electronic version of this informa-
tion can be found at www.law-
rencetransit.org.
Edited by Sarah Kelly
By the numBers:
t Bus ridership
February 2009 31,451
February 2008 29,147
June 2009 32,805
June 2008 33,757
august 2009 48,313
august 2008 35,349
lawrencetransit.org
Jenny Terrell/KANSAN
Students board a bus in front of SnowHall onTuesday afternoon. The number of bus riders has increased since the Lawrence Transit System
converged with the KU onWheels busing service.
legal
Court wont retry
death row inmate
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS A Texas death row
inmate wont be able to argue for a
new trial, despite admissions of an
affair between his trial judge and
the prosecutor, a court announced
Wednesday.
The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals ruled
6-3 that con-
victed mur-
derer Charles
Dean Hood
should have
raised con-
cerns about
the affair
between the
now-ret i red
court officials in earlier appeals.
The ruling overturned a lower
courts recommendation that
Hood be able to make his case for
a new trial based on the affair.
Our argument is that they had
this information and should have
raised it in the earlier writ, said
current prosecutor John Rolater,
the chief of Collin Countys appel-
late division. We consider this a
significant success for the state.
Hoods attorneys said in a
statement that the affair led to
a tainted trial and obvious and
outrageous violations of Hoods
constitutional rights. The ruling
will only add to the perception
that justice is skewed in Texas,
said Andrea Keilen, of the Texas
Defender Service.
The rejection from the states
highest criminal appeals court
means a future appeal on the
same grounds must go to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
No one would want to be pros-
ecuted for a parking violation
let alone for capital murder by
a district attorney who is sleeping
with the judge, another Hood
attorney Greg Wiercioch said. We
are outraged by this breakdown in
the integrity of the justice system.
... Mr. Hood is entitled to a new
trial before an impartial judge and
a fair prosecutor.
Hoods attorneys have said they
could not raise the issue of the
affair until last year, because it
wasnt yet a known fact.
Hood, 40, a former bouncer
at a topless club, was arrested in
Indiana for the 1989 fatal shoot-
ings of Tracie Lynn Wallace,
26, and her boyfriend, Ronald
Williamson, 46. He has main-
tained his innocence.
Hood was driving Williamsons
$70,000 Cadillac at the time of his
arrest and his fingerprints were at
the murder scene at Williamsons
home in Plano, a Dallas suburb.
Hood said he had permission to
drive the car and his fingerprints
were at the house because he had
been living there.
Hood won a reprieve last
September, a day before his sched-
uled execution. No new execution
date has been scheduled, and he
still has at least one other appeal
pending regarding whether jury
instructions were flawed. A ruling
favorable to Hood could result in
a new sentencing hearing but not
a new trial.
The Austin-based appeals
court granted the stay of execu-
tion because of the issue of jury
instructions. It was unrelated to
the once secret romantic relation-
ship between Hoods trial judge,
Verla Sue Holland, and Tom
OConnell, the former district
attorney in Collin County.
Hood
ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.
After being locked away for
25 years for sex crimes, Donald
Robinson moved to a little block
of unassuming homes in this city
on the San Francisco Peninsula on
Aug. 27.
The timing couldnt have been
worse. It was the day after Phillip
Garrido was arrested just 40 miles
away on charges that he kidnapped
11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard
and held her captive for 18 years
despite his long criminal record as
a sex offender.
Police distributed fliers in
Robinsons new neighborhood,
alerting residents that he was liv-
ing there. He has been targeted
by a protest rally organized by the
mayor and daily picketing outside
his house. And the state is paying
two security guards $800 a day
each to protect him.
Robinsons case underscores
just how hard it is for the govern-
ment to move sex offenders back
into society, especially at a time
there is widespread outrage over
the Garrido case and the missed
opportunities to catch him.
Its an issue that communities
face in an era when community
notification laws in all 50 states tell
residents where sex offenders live.
crime
Neighbors protest sex ofender
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Melvin Harris and his wife Helen Harvey-Harris are interviewed at their home near the
residence of sex ofender Donald Robinson in East Palo Alto, Calif. Robinson moved in Aug. 27.
CRIME
Naked man gets ffth DUI
during motorcycle ride
OCALA, Fla. A Florida man
was charged with driving under
the infuence after he was spot-
ted riding his motorcycle naked.
The Marion County deputy
caught up with J. Dante Krauss
early Tuesday at a red light and
stopped him on Interstate 75.
Capt. Mike Rolls said Krauss
couldnt explain where he was
coming from or why he was
naked. It was Krauss ffth DUI
arrest.
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DETROIT The Detroit
Tigers gave their fans plenty to
cheer about Wednesday night.
First the team honored long-
time radio announcer Ernie
Harwell, then the Tigers went out
and beat the Kansas City Royals
4-3 to maintain their lead in the
AL Central.
Placido Polanco singled home
the go-ahead run with two outs
in the sixth inning as the Tigers,
seeking their first division title
since 1987, reduced their magic
number to 13. Detroit leads
Minnesota by 4 games.
Thats just the way weve played
games all year, said Detroit short-
stop Adam Everett, who drove in
two runs, including the tying run
in the sixth. I dont know how to
explain it. Theyve been beating
us up pretty good and to get a
win, and win in that fashion, was
big for us.
The victory ended the Tigers
five-game skid against Kansas
City.
Detroit saluted Harwell, who
recently said he has inoperable
cancer, during the third inning.
The team showed a three-minute
video tribute then the Hall of
Fame announcer gave a thank-
you speech to an appreciative and
tearful crowd of 25,400.
I think he really said some
nice words, reliever Zach Miner
said of Harwell, who spoke to the
team before the game. I think
everyone kind of took it to heart
and kind of realized that its a
game.
The 91-year-old Hall of Fame
broadcaster was in the Detroit
booth from 1960 to 2002.
Miner (7-5) and three other
relievers kept the Royals score-
less over the final five innings.
Fernando Rodney worked the
ninth to earn his 33rd save in 34
chances.
Everett and Curtis Granderson
each drove in a run in Detroits
two-run fourth and Everett added
his tying RBI single off starter
Lenny DiNardo (0-1) in the sixth.
Reliever Jamey Wright gave up
Polancos hit with two outs.
Kansas City had runners at sec-
ond and third to start the eighth
after Bobby Seay gave up consec-
utive singles, but Brandon Lyon
came on to induce a grounder to
the mound and a strikeout before
getting Alberto Callaspo to pop
up to first.
Obviously what Lyon did
tonight was game-saving,
Leyland said.
The Royals lost their lead
baserunner three times, includ-
ing in the third when Yuniesky
Betancourt was thrown out at
the plate by Ryan Raburn. Tigers
catcher Gerald Laird later caught
his majors-best 34th runner trying
to steal, when Willie Bloomquist
failed to swipe second.
Situational hitting and defense
were werent at either one and
it cost us, Kansas City manager
Trey Hillman said.
Maier and Miguel Olivo had
RBI singles and Alex Gordon
added a sacrifice fly against start-
er Eddie Bonine.
sports 3b THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
mlb
Tigers honor Hall of Fame
broadcaster, beat Royals
AssociATed PRess
Kansas city Royals Mike Jacobs strikes out against Detroit Tigers Brandon Lyon in the eighth
inningWednesday in Detroit. Jacobs went 1-for-4 in a 4-3 loss to the Tigers.
mlb
New York beats Toronto,
but not literally this time
AssociAted Press
NEW YORK Tis time the
Yankees fought back with their
bats.
Hideki Matsui hit a tying, two-
run homer in the eighth inning of
Scott Downs, Francisco Cervelli
hit a winning single in the ninth
and New York beat the Toronto
Blue Jays 5-4 Wednesday night.
A day afer brawling in the
Bronx, the Blue Jays and Yankees
made it through nine innings
calmly on the frst chilly night of
late summer.
New York was held to four hits
through seven innings, then tied
it on Matsuis 25th homer, a drive
over the manual scoreboard on
the right-feld wall.
Brett Gardner singled of Jason
Frasor (6-3) leading of the ninth,
stole second, took third on Derek
Jeters grounder and scored on
Cervellis sharp single to lef.
Mariano Rivera (3-2) pitched a
one-hit ninth for the win.
Approaching a return to the
playofs afer a one-year absence,
New York (94-53) fnished its
next-to-last homestand of the
regular season by overcoming
three wild pitches and an error by
the shortstop Jeter, who allowed a
grounder to go through his legs.
Toronto lost two pitchers to
injury. Brian Tallet cut short his
start afer bruising his right foot
on Robinson Canos comebacker
leading of the second. He fnished
the inning and was replaced by
Shawn Camp starting the third.
Camp hit Melky Cabrera above
the right knee with an 80 mph
breaking ball in the fourth, but
both benches remained calm.
Downs also lef early. Tree
batters afer Matsuis homer, he
came out with a 1-0 count to Ca-
brera, who hit an inning-ending
fyout against Frasor.
Much of the focus was on
events of a night earlier.
Jorge Posada and Shelley Dun-
can of the Yankees and Jesse Carl-
son of the Blue Jays each were sus-
pended for three games by Major
League Baseball for their role in
Tuesdays fght.
While Posada and Carlson ac-
cepted their penalties, Duncan
appealed and remained eligible to
play.
Afer a pair of Toronto players
were hit by pitches Tuesday night,
Carlson threw a fastball behind
Posada in the eighth inning of
the Blue Jays 10-4 win. Moments
later, Posada bumped Carlson af-
ter scoring a run, and the dugouts
and bullpens emptied.
AssociATed PRess
NewYork Yankees Hideki Matsui follows through on an eighth-inning two-run home run a at Yankee StadiumonWednesday. Players from
both teams were suspended for their involvement in a fght during a game the night before.
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AssociAted Press
WASHINGTON President
Barack Obama staged a home-
coming-style Olympic rally at the
White House on Wednesday, say-
ing the whole country is rooting
for his hometown of Chicago in its
efforts to host the 2016 Summer
Games.
Chicago is ready. The American
people are ready. We want these
games, he said to applause.
If you choose Chicago, I prom-
ise you this Chicago will make
America proud, and America will
make the world proud, Obama
added.
The International Olympic
Committee will choose a host
city during an Oct. 2 meeting
in Copenhagen. Obama will not
attend the meetings, instead send-
ing first lady Michelle Obama to
lead the U.S. delegation.
Chicago is in a tough competi-
tion with Rio de Janeiro, Madrid
and Tokyo.
In recent years, heads of state
have traveled to
the IOC meet-
ings to help seal
the deal such
as Tony Blair for
the 2012 Summer
Olympics in
London and
Vladimir Putin for
the 2014 Winter
Games in Sochi,
Russia.
I would make
the case in Copenhagen person-
ally, were it not for his quest for
health care reform, Obama said.
But the good news is Im send-
ing a more compelling superstar
to represent the city and country
we love, and that is our first lady,
Michelle Obama.
The first lady didnt return the
kudos, describing the presidents
dabbling in some of
the Olympic sports
before the event.
You should have
seen the president
in there fencing,
she said to laughter,
as Obama stuck out
his arm in a mock
fencing move. It
was pathetic. But
he passed the baton
really well.
Obama said that while he loves
Washington, Chicago has been his
home for nearly 25 years.
Obama making case for
2016 Olympics in Chicago
AssociAted Press
President Barack obama wields a light saber as heattacksOlympic fencer TimMorehouse, who won a silver medal in Mens Saber Fencing at
the Beijing Olympics during an event supporting Chicagos 2016 host city Olympic bidWednesday on the South Lawn of the White House. Chicago is
competing with Rio de Janeiro, Madrid andTokyo for the 2016 Summer Games.
national
Chicago is ready. The
American people are
ready. We want these
games.
Barack oBama
President
AssociAted Press
MINNEAPOLIS Michael
Cuddyer homered, doubled and
drove in three runs Wednesday and
the Minnesota Twins defeated the
Cleveland Indians 7-3 for a three-
game sweep.
Joe Mauer singled twice, raising
his major league-leading batting
average to .374, and drove in two
runs as the Twins won their fourth
in a row.
Minnesota began the day 4 1/2
games behind Detroit in the AL
Central.
The Tigers were home Wednesday
night against Kansas City, then visit
the Metrodome for a three-game set
beginning Friday.
Matt LaPorta homered and had
three RBIs for Cleveland. The team
had lost four straight and 13 of 16.
Nick Blackburn (10-11) allowed
two earned runs and eight hits in 6
1/3 innings for his second victory in
12 starts since the All-Star break.
He lowered his second-half ERA
from 7.36 to 6.90.
Joe Nathan struck out the final
two batters for his 41st save in 46
chances.
Cuddyer homered leading off the
fifth and added an RBI double in
the seventh.
The home run was the second in
three games for Cuddyer, who hit a
three-run shot to lead Mondays 6-3
comeback victory.
Blackburn came up with his third
solid start in four outings.
The lone blip was last Friday,
when Blackburn allowed six earned
runs in three innings against
Oakland.
Blackburn retired the Indians in
order three times in the first four
innings, and got out of a two-on,
no-out jam in the fifth when Kelly
Shoppach grounded into a double
play and Trevor Crowe grounded
out.
For the second straight start,
Aaron Laffey (7-6) gave up six
earned runs and a career-high 12
hits.
His own mistake put him
behind.
With two outs in the third, Laffey
dropped a soft toss covering first
base for an error. Cuddyer followed
with an RBI single for a 1-0 lead.
Laffey walked No. 9 hitter Nick
Punto with two outs in the fourth.
Denard Span followed with an
RBI single, and Mauer had a two-
run single two batters later for a
4-0 lead.
AssociAted Press
the Minnesota twins Joe Mauer follows through with a two-RBI single onWednesday in
Minneapolis. Mauer raised his batting average to .374, best in the majors.
mlb
Twins sweep Indians behind Cuddyers home run, double
nfl
rams trade for receiver,
linebacker; release two
ST. LoUIS The St. Louis
rams have signed wide re-
ceiver ruvell martin and
linebacker Paris Lenon.
To make room for the sign-
ings announced Wednesday,
the rams waived linebacker
Quinton culberson and tackle
Eric Young.
martin played three seasons
for Green Bay before being
waived Sept. 5.
He had 52 receptions for
749 yards and six touchdowns
for the Packers.
Lenon is an eight-year vet-
eran who played four seasons
in Green Bay and three in De-
troit before signing with New
England in the ofseason. He
also was cut on Sept. 5. He has
523 career tackles, fve sacks
and two interceptions, along
with 58 special teams tackles.
Associated Press
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