Human error blamed for Lawrence energy center blast
Western Resources released a report blaming human error for a fatal blast at the Lawrence Energy Center. The panel found removal of a safety barrier led to an energized conductor flash after workers attempted to diagnose a tripping circuit breaker. Victims were Duane Tenpenny, Ron Guy, and Charles Price.
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Lawrence Energy Center
Western Resources
University of Missouri
Shawnee Mission
George Norton
Duane Tenpenny
Topeka
KPL
Ron Guy
Lawrence
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Kan
Charles Price
North Kansas City
ABB Services
Sam Guy
Tenpenny
Lawmakers consider Kansas class size cut for kindergartens
Lawrence school officials push back on a state proposal to reduce kindergarten through third grade class sizes to 17 students per teacher, estimating about 29 million dollars yearly for extra teachers and classrooms. Rep. Bill Reardon plans to introduce the measure when the Legislature convenes.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Bill Reardon
Kansas City
Dent
Reardon
Randy Weseman
Weseman
Lawrence considers indoor pool site and design options
Lawrence city commissioners moved toward hiring an architect to plan an indoor aquatic center with two pools a 25 or 50 meter competition pool and a family pool. They weighed location options Centennial Park or Free State High School and discussed a retractable roof or inflatable dome while keeping top recreation priority for sales tax funds. A skate park site was also eyed at Broken Arrow Park or Centennial tennis courts with a $60,000 budget.
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Lawrence
Recta
Centennial Park
John Nalbandian
Park
Free State
Sixth Street
Rockledge Road
Susan Elkins
Rockledge
Free State High School
Marty Kennedy
Broken Arrow Park
Centennial
Downtown angled parking plan rejected on two streets
Downtown Parking Task Force voted down angled parking on Vermont and New Hampshire streets from Sixth to 11th. Members cited narrow streets and navigation concerns, though merchants previously supported the idea which could have added about 150 spaces. The group will now study angled parking on Seventh through 10th streets.
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Vermont
New Hampshire
Gary Toebben
Lawrence
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Seventh
Eighth
10Th
Deer firearms season opens as hunters prepare across Kansas
Kansas hunters, including KU junior Brian Spear, head out as the 12 day deer firearms season starts. Officials expect about 80 000 firearm permits statewide with northeast Kansas issuing thousands of permits in categories such as any deer buck only and antlerless. Permit numbers depend on prior harvests crop damage complaints and deervehicle accidents. Deerrelated crashes rose from 4210 in 1990 to 8415 in 1996.
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Brian Spear
Kansas University
Spear
Mark Shoup
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Shoup
Kansas
Douglas County
Kansas Department of Transportation
Dave Topilkar
Topilkar
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