Arizona Summer Wildcat
Wednesday July 2, 2003
3 weeks since a missing Texas athlete was last seen. Police sources have said they believe Patrick Dennehy, a Baylor University basketball player, is dead. However, police still haven't turned up a body, according to Fox News.
$34.2 million was raised for the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. Bush announced his bid to run for re-election six weeks ago, which sent him and his campaign staff on a whirlwind tour across the country courting donors. Bush's collection is more than the combined earnings of the nine other Democratic candidates, according to Fox News.
3 makers of Ephedra are being targeted by the Federal Trace Commission. Regulators announced Tuesday that they have sued one marketer of the weight loss supplement and settled charges against two others, according to Reuters.
4,000 people attended the funeral for Strom Thurmond. The nation's longest-serving senator died last week at age 100. When he was first elected more than 50 years ago, some of his constituents were civil war veterans, according to NBC News.
10 Commandments statue must be removed from the Alabama Supreme Court Building. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a ruling by a federal judge who said the washing machine-sized statue violates the constitutional separation of church and state, according to the Associated Press.
42 year-old Lois Campbell was about to give her 3-year-old son an Uncle Ray's Garlic Flavored potato chip when she found marijuana in the bag. The Des Moines woman called police to confirm the green leafy substance. They're tracing the incident back to where the chips were bagged in Detroit, according to the Associated Press.