Paragraphs 2 & 3 read: "The investigation is far from complete but information we have today indicates that the mother drove the boys to the rooftop and some how caused them to fall," T. Grant Kepner, Purdue's director of safety and security, said in a statement Friday.

Police found Prozac, an anti-depressant drug, in the possession of 44-year-old Kathy M. Kent. Autopsies were conducted Thursday. Results are not expected for several weeks.
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Three deaths investigated as murder-suicide
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21 October 1995
The Evansville Courier
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Three deaths investigated as murder-suicide

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Police say the deaths this week of a woman and her two young sons after a plunge from the top of a Purdue University parking garage are being investigated as a murder-suicide.

"The investigation is far from complete but information we have today indicates that the mother drove the boys to the rooftop and some how caused them to fall," T. Grant Kepner, Purdue's director of safety and security, said in a statement Friday.

Police found Prozac, an anti-depressant drug, in the possession of 44-year-old Kathy M. Kent. Autopsies were conducted Thursday. Results are not expected for several weeks.

Kathy Kent and her sons, Sean, 11, and Kyle, 8, died after their eight-story fall from the Wood Street Parking Garage Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses say the two boys fell first, followed seconds later by their mother.

Commission fails to approve Bayh's fee cuts

INDIANAPOLIS - When Gov. Evan Bayh took credit last week for cutting or reducing nearly $400,000 in fees charged by the Department of Natural Resources, he was apparently speaking too soon, or not saying enough.

The Natural Resources Commission, the panel that oversees the DNR, failed to approve the cuts Bayh said he was implementing.

It turns out that many of the cuts Bayh said he was making in 702 state fees, saving taxpayers an estimated $8.5 million, have to be approved by various agency boards and commissions before they can take effect. And at least two cuts the administration claimed credit for require action by the General Assembly.

Fred Nation, Bayh's press secretary, said some of the 702 cuts will require approval by boards and commissions, but said the administration was confident all of them would be implemented.

Drug charges against former justice dropped

STANVILLE, Ky. - Misdemeanor drug charges were dropped Friday against former Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Dan Jack Combs on the condition he find something other than marijuana to ease his insomnia.

"I hope this is the end of our annoying situation," Combs said. Combs, 71, and his son, Ghent, 16, were charged in August with cultivation and possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia after a Kentucky State Police raid at their Stanville home. The former justice, who has acknowledged smoking marijuana to deal with insomnia, said he might seek other drugs to deal with his condition. Combs, who left office in 1993 citing health reasons and a memory disorder, was elected in 1988.

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