School worker charged in assault on student

Kansas City, Kan. — An employee of Piper High School has been charged with taking indecent liberties with a student at the school.

Yancy Holden, 29, of Kansas City, Kan., was charged Friday with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties and two counts of indecent liberties with a child.

Prosecutors said the incidents that led to the charges happened between April 1 and May 27 at the school.

Holden, a media specialist at the high school, was being detained Friday in the Wyandotte County Jail on a $50,000 bond.

1961 KU graduate tapped as ambassador

President Bush is nominating a Kansas University graduate to be ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, the White House said Friday.

B. Lynn Pascoe received his bachelor’s degree from KU in East Asian studies in 1961 before pursuing his master’s degree at Columbia University.

He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, most recently as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European Affairs in the State Department.

Pascoe has also been chief of mission in Malaysia, director of the American Institute in Taiwan and principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Blowout, wreck kills two Kentucky teens

Topeka — Two teenagers from Kentucky were killed Wednesday evening in an accident on Interstate 70 just west of Topeka.

The Kansas Highway Patrol said that Samuel Adams, 18, and Jennifer Goodhue, 19, of Louisville, died when their westbound car crossed the median strip and collided with an eastbound van.

The patrol’s report said Adams lost control of the car after a rear tire blew out.