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Nation in brief
Compiled from Times wires Instructor warned about Ariz. gunmanTUCSON, Ariz. -- A year and a half before a University of Arizona nursing student killed three of his professors and then himself Monday, an instructor told police the student had thought about "ending it all" and "might put something under the college." Instructor Melissa M. Goldsmith told police that Robert S. Flores Jr. said he was having problems with a paper but also had a lot of problems other than school, according to the university police department report filed April 24, 2001. "He was depressed and thought about 'ending it all.' Flores then stated he 'might put something under the college,' " according to the report, which was provided to the Associated Press on Tuesday by university police. The report said an officer called Flores and left a message. It was not clear if police followed up. Court: Doctors have right to recommend marijuanaSAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court ruled for the first time Tuesday that the government cannot revoke doctors' prescription licenses for recommending marijuana to sick patients. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously found that the Justice Department's policy interferes with the free-speech rights of doctors and patients. Kansan convicted in Internet sex slave slayingsOLATHE, Kan. -- A man with a taste for sadomasochistic sex was convicted Tuesday of murdering three women and stuffing the bodies of two of them into 85-gallon barrels on his rural property. John E. Robinson Sr., 58, could get the death penalty. A jury convicted him of capital murder in the slayings of Suzette Trouten, 27, of Newport, Mich., and Izabela Lewicka, 21, a former Purdue University student from West Lafayette, Ind., both of whom were found in barrels. Both women had met Robinson over the Internet and came to Kansas to become his sex slaves. Robinson also was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1985 death and disappearance of Lisa Stasi, 19, whose body has never been found.
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