City budget study starts with plan for 1998 upkeep
Lawrence city commissioners opened the 1998 budget process with a study session at city hall. City Manager Mike Wildgen highlighted maintenance needs for upcoming projects including landscaping on North Second Street a new $14.2 million health facility and an outdoor education center in Prairie Park. The group plans two more sessions on June 11 and July 9 and may tap countywide sales tax revenue to offset maintenance costs while aiming to keep property taxes stable.
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Lawrence
Mike Wildgen
City Hall
Wildgen
North Second Street
Prairie Park
John Nalbandian
Salmonella cases prompt regional survey in Kansas
Four salmonella cases in Lawrence since late March share no common factors. The Health Department says other regional cases exist in northeast Kansas and Johnson County. Officials urge thorough cooking and handwashing to prevent infection, noting symptoms appear 18 to 36 hours after eating.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Barbara Schnitker
Lawrence-Douglas County
Douglas County
Schnitker
Johnson County
City seeks smaller talks team to restart police contract talks
City officials offer to trim the negotiating team to bring Lawrence police officers to the bargaining table for a new contract. The LPOA may bring an attorney but not as official representative, while the current agreement expires December 31.
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Lawrence
Rod Bremby
Ray Hummert
LPOA
Bremby
Scott Connell
LPCA
Web powered town voice sparks county interest in Kansas
Overland Park AP report details Bob Phillips from Johnson County creating The Neighborhood Net a local Internet page with real estate listings neighborhood events government meetings and gardening news. It hosts residents from Stanley Overland Park Stilwell Leawood and uses email for an electronic town forum drawing opinions on sewer plans cellular towers and more. Johnson County officials study the site as a potential channel for distributing information. The page has over four thousand hits in a year with praise from Leawood Councilman Mike Gill and Derek Sherry county tech chief calling it the trend of the future.
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Overland Park
Bob Phillips
Johnson County
Phillips
Stanley
Stilwell
Leawood
Tor
Mike Gill
Feds charge Wellsville man and son under new gun law
A Topeka grand jury indicted Michael E. Hicks, 44, and his son Sean M. Hicks, 20, on firearms counts. Michael faced illegal possession due to a prior domestic violence conviction from 1995. Sean was charged with two counts of possessing unregistered firearms, namely two sawed off shotguns, and concealing knowledge of that possession.
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Topeka
Wellsville
Michael E. Hicks
U.S
Jackie Williams
Kansas
Hicks
Sean M. Hicks
Turkington named to Kansas Turnpike Authority seat
Governor Bill Javes appointed Mary E. Turkington of Topeka to the Kansas Turnpike Authority for a four year term ending April 2001. She replaces former state Sen. Dick Rock and joins Dean Carlson and Frank J. Becker on the panel, with the Senate and House transportation committee chairs Ben Vidricksen and Gary Hayzlett also serving.
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Mary E. Turkington
Kansas Motor Carriers Assn
Weanessgy
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Bill Javes
Turkington
Topeka
Dick Rock
Arkansas City
KTA
Dean Carlson
Frank J. Becker
Lawrence
Senate
House
Ben Vidricksen
R-Salina
Gary Hayzlett
R-Lakin
Junction City Judge faces malfeasance probe over jury duty
Commission on Judicial Qualifications probes Judge David R. Platt of Junction City for due process violations tied to arrest warrants issued for potential juror Janette Campbell. Campbell spent 40 days jailed after missed reports. four arrest warrants dated 1994 to 1996 cited her transportation and caregiving burdens. Platt has 20 days to answer.
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Commission On Judicial Qualifications
David R. Platt
Junction City
State Supreme Court
Edward G Collister Jr
Platt
Janette Campbell
Geary County
Ms. Campbell
Teens Given Life in Carjacking Death in Kansas City Suburb
Two 18-year-old men from Edgerton were sentenced to life for a June 13 carjacking and fatal shooting outside a Mission area hair salon. Judge Peter Ruddick called the attack vicious and unprovoked. Donald England, 45, of Mission, was killed in the Overland Park parking lot after exiting his car.
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Kansas City
John Manard
Michael Yardley
Edgerton
Donald England
Mission
Johnson County
Peter Ruddick
England
Overland Park
Suspect deemed competent in Pittsburg State student murder
Gary Kleypas is ruled competent to stand trial for the murder of Carrie Williams, 20, whose body was found in her Pittsburg apartment on March 30, 1996. He faces charges of capital murder sodomy and rape. Crawford County Judge Donald Noland issued the ruling, rejecting defense challenges to competency.
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Pittsburg State University
Gary Kleypas
Crawford County
Donald Noland
Kleypas
Carrie Williams
Pittsburg
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Bonnie Augustine
Robin Halland
Custom Marketing Co
West Fargo
N.C
Garden City
Web
Derek Sherry
Rueschhoff
Rueschoff
W. 31St Street
Target
cRenaae
Blue Shield
Mater Cgn At
NXT Evern
Dermatology Center of Lawrence
Lee R. Bittenbender, M.D
Iowa St
Hillcrest Professional
Pa Rk Sa
Feds
Girard
Niehoff Htg. & Air, Inc
Lowa
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