Snowstorm shuts schools as it drifts across region
A late winter storm moved from the Midwest to the Northeast on Tuesday, bringing up to 10 inches of snow in parts of Ohio Connecticut and Pennsylvania nine inches in New Jersey and a possible foot in upstate New York and Massachusetts. Wet roads caused many highway crashes including two deaths in Pennsylvania. An Akron area crash may have involved snow. Meanwhile a report on ethics cleared Steven Griles of wrongdoing but criticized department ethics work. In science news a 17-year-old Massachusetts student won the Intel Science Talent Search with a discovery on telomerase inhibitors earning a 100000 college scholarship. Other top winners hailed from multiple states.
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Judge cites overworked courts need funds to handle rising caseloads
Federal courts are swamped due to tougher crime policies and surge in prosecutions. Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the Fifth Circuit points to drug and immigration cases near the border and Attorney General Ashcroft's directives as driving more trials while funding fails to keep pace.
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Haskell to loan sculpture to national museum
A 6 foot tall sculpture by Houser, titled Comrade in Mourning, will be loaned to the National Museum of the American Indian. A conservator will clean it in Kansas City before viewing during Lawrence's Downtown Friday Gallery Art Walk on April 23. Houser, a Santa Fe Indian School graduate and National Medal of Arts recipient, is noted for public works and his Chiricahua Apache heritage.
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Marijuana bust near New York School prompts tougher penalties
Neighbors describe the arrest near downtown Lawrence as alarming while police report a tip led to the discovery of indoor marijuana grows connected to a house near New York School. KBI officials note indoor cultivation rising as aerial surveillance improves, with scale of operations sizable in Douglas County.
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