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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 2002
Page
3
Garden City public schools invite the community to tour classrooms during regular hours as part of American Education Week sponsored by the Garden City Education Association. Activities include staff wearing alma mater sweatshirts and school colors.
EMPORIA AP Bill Ogg who had led the Kansas State Fair since 1997 resigned after a series of closed door board meetings. The Emporia board voted unanimously to accept the resignation guided by assistant attorney general Camille Nohe. Ogg earned eighty thousand dollars annually and left with no immediate plans or job prospects.
A physicians' group that sued pharmacist Robert Courtney over his drug dilution scheme will surrender almost all claims to his assets to aid victims. Courtney pled guilty to watering down cancer drugs for 34 patients on 158 occasions from March to June last year and later said he diluted drugs back to 1992, affecting up to 4200 patients. His assets, believed to exceed $8 million, were frozen after civil forfeiture actions targeted three bank accounts and a house.
A Topeka man, 41, is charged with reckless second degree murder in the death of 12 year old Jessica Meyer who was struck by a bullet that pierced her family's apartment wall as she spoke on the phone. The shooting is tied to an accidental discharge by Andrew A. Howland who lived nearby.
Governor hopeful Kathleen Sebelius told 500 Farm Bureau delegates in Manhattan she will send Lt. Gov. John Moore to Cuba on a December trade mission with Gary Sherrer. She plans a prosperity summit after inauguration and seeks ideas on running government including a job description for agriculture secretary. She backs drought relief and regulatory reforms while urging collaboration with Rep. Moran and Sen. Roberts.
Garden City and Finney County officials approve expanding a feasibility study on restoring Arkansas River habitat to cover three miles of banks and nearby Finney County sand pits and the Garden City Sewage Plant discharge. The study cost could rise, with the Army Corps share at about 5 million and local match potentially over 1 million, funded by various sources if the project proceeds.
Shawnee County District Judge Maria J. Luckert, 47, was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court, becoming the second woman on the high court. She replaces Justice Fred N. Six, who retires Jan. 13, as Gov. Graves plans one more appointment to fill Justice Tyler Lockett's upcoming vacancy. Luckert joins Chief Justice Kay McFarland on the seven member court.
Westar Energy chief executive David Wittig and former Capital City Bank official Weidner pleaded innocent to a federal indictment alleging they illegally steered a $1.5 million loan into a real estate venture near Scottsdale. The case involves money laundering and misapplication of bank funds.
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