Congress ratings slump in USA Today poll
A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll finds Congress at 24 percent approval, 65 percent disapproval, with 39 percent believing most members deserve re election. Two of three want term limits of 12 years, while 58 percent support re electing their own representatives.
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Clinton urges Congress to speed deficit deal in Chicago
President Clinton told a jobs conference in Chicago to get on with a compromise deficit reduction bill amid public demand for faster action. Rep Dan Rostenkowski and Sen Moynihan publicly clashed with the administration over flexibility in negotiations. Hospital case at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit involved a shooting and a death, with a 57-year-old woman arrested. The ophthalmology technicians were reported in stable condition.
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Judge signs execution order with a happy face
Houston AP report notes District Judge Charles J. Hearn added a smiling flourish to an Oct 15 execution date for Robert Nelson Drew, claimed by a lawyer to be inappropriate. Drew, 62, killed a 17 year old hitchhiker. Hearn says the mark is just his signature habit.
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Bosnia peace talks in Geneva push to divide through ethnic lines
Serb leader Radovan Karadzic arrives with maps for a Bosnian Serb Croat plan to partition Bosnia as mediators warn time is running out. Key figures include Izetbegovic Milosevic Tudjman Karadzic and Boban with Owen and Stoltenberg meeting leaders separately. The war has created 140,000 to 200,000 dead or missing and two million displaced.
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Floodwaters rise as rivers threaten Kansas City area
Thousands of businesses and homeowners pile sandbags and board windows as the Missouri and Kansas rivers surge toward crest. The Kansas River is forecast to top 55 feet, near a 57-foot levee, while a Waldron levee breach prompts evacuations. In Dubuque the Mississippi falls below flood stage. About 42 deaths and over $10 billion in damage reported.
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Two New Agent Orange Diseases Added for Vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs named Hodgkin's disease and a liver disorder, porphyria cutanea tarda, as compensable conditions for Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange. The move follows a National Academy of Sciences finding of sufficient evidence linking these diseases to herbicide exposure, joining existing cancers and chloracne on the list.
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Kansas Weather Zones Report for Douglas County
Kansas zones Douglas County shows varied forecasts tonight mainly clear with mid 50s to 70s lows, and Wednesday sunny with highs from mid 80s to around 90. Some zones expect thunderstorms tonight with 30 to 40 percent chances, northerly winds 10 to 20 mph.
Local forecast and Clinton Lake report summary
Tonight partly cloudy skies shift to mostly clear after midnight with a 40 percent chance of evening rain and a low around 64 mph north winds 10 to 15. Wednesday brings sun and dry weather with a high near 86 and north winds 10 to 20. Overnight Wednesday night partly cloudy with a low about 67 and north winds 5 to 15. Official readings note Monday high around 86, low 70, overnight 73 and trace precipitation. Clinton Lake at 8 a.m. shows about 0.0 temp and lake level near 887.51 feet above mean sea level, with normal around 875.5.
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Travel outlook across four states Weather forecast brief
MISSOURI Tonight partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms in the north Lows 65 to 75 Wednesday partly cloudy in the north west with a chance of thundershowers in the south east Highs 85 to 95 NEBRASKA Tonight mostly clear Lows 150 to 65 Wednesday mostly sun with highs in the mid 80s OKLAHOMA Through Wednesday chance of thunderstorms in the north fair elsewhere Lows in the 70s Highs 97 to 104 COLORADO Tonight mostly clear with scattered thunderstorms in the south east mountains and northeast Lows 40s to mid 50s 30s to mid 40s in mountains and high valleys Wednesday partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms in the northern and central mountains northeast Highs 80s to mid 90s 80s in mountains ROAD CONDITIONS Kansas Highway Patrol 1298-3102 Kansas Turnpike Authority 849-8250.
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