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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 2001
Page
8
Partly cloudy conditions with a high near 74 degrees mark this five day Lawrence forecast. Weather history notes a record August temperature in Anchorage at 82 degrees, tied on August 2, 1978.
The entry lists sun and moon events for tonight and tomorrow with sunrise at 6 42 am sunset at 8 04 pm and moonrise at 11 56 am and planet positions for morning Venus Jupiter Saturn and evening Mercury Mars.
Sa The Oz Entertainment Co asks Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall to determine if about 550000 in Wyandotte County and Board of Public Utilities grants received in the early 1990s for a Wizard of Oz theme park can be reclassified as loans and require repayment as the project shifted locations to De Soto in Johnson County. The request highlights potential recovery of public funds tied to an unrealized Oz theme park project.
Gabriel Flores-Amaya, 33, pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale E. Saffels to 70 months in federal prison without parole. He will receive five years of supervised release after prison and must forfeit approximately 44 pounds of cocaine involved in the case. U.S. Attorney Jim Flory reported the Monday sentencing.
Two Kansas City suburbs earn high marks in the Kid Friendly Cities Report Card. Overland Park Kansas is listed as the most kid friendly suburb in the United States and Independence Missouri ranks sixth. The study measures infant mortality crime unemployment air quality and school indicators. Overland Park gains extra credit for Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead while Independence earns credit for its Youth Friends volunteer program. Kansas City’s independent city status places it mid pack among 140 large cities with Wichita and Topeka scoring well in the region.
Kansas legislators heard an audit showing early retirement programs in 159 of 304 districts have mixed effects on teacher supply. Costs run about 7,800 per retiree from district budgets, with calls to let districts invest retirement funds and possibly raise the retirement age.
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