Suburban high school shooting shocks Conyers community
A 15 year old sophomore at Heritage High School in Conyers Georgia opened fire with two guns injuring six students on the final day of school. Witnesses describe panicked crowds as shots were fired at students and staff. The juvenile suspect was arrested on aggravated assault charges and faces possible weapons and cruelty to children counts.
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Conyers
Colorado
Heritage High School
Joel Thomas
Dist. Atty
Richard Read
Rebecca Harris
Bonnie
Corn Farmers Race Against Rain In Kansas Fields
Northeast Kansas farmers work around the clock to plant overdue corn as wet spring weather delays fields. In Douglas County about 45 percent of corn remains unplanted, while statewide 74 percent is in the ground and the May planting window has passed. Early delays cut yields sharply and raise frustration as farmers fear diminishing returns and higher losses before harvest.
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Kansas
Douglas County
State Department of Agriculture
Bill Wood
Sai Bob Gales
Farmers Cooperative Assa
Roger
Brian Tine
Pine
Lawrence
Pines
Shawn Pine Bay
Mike Wintermantel
Wintermantel
Wood
Bart. Rieman
Gore Breaks Tie On Gun Show Background Checks
Vice President Al Gore cast a tie breaking vote in the Senate to expand background checks for all gun show sales and pawnshop weapon reclaiming. The Senate then passed a broad juvenile justice bill 73 25, adding gun restrictions and tougher enforcement while Republicans in the base push to remove gun language.
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Washington
al Gore
Senate
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Pat Roberts
Gore
Brownback
Roberts
NATO hits hospital as Belgrade airstrikes intensify
NATO warplanes pounded Belgrade and suburbs, leaving a hospital in smoldering ruins with three patients dead and an operating room destroyed. The Libyan embassy was damaged as allied strikes continued amid reports of Yugoslav army desertions and resumed diplomacy in Moscow. Detonations lit the sky in New Belgrade and Cukarica while one laser-guided bomb misfired by about 1500 feet.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
NATO
Moscow
China
Cukarica
KU leader defends proposal to increase highered budget
Kansas University chancellor Robert Hemenway argues for rising state university funding, backing a $52 million increase for fiscal year 2001 while State Budget Director Duane Goossen cautions that bleak projections constrain the regents system to the $8.4 million already set aside.
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Topska
Robert Hemenway
Duane Goossen
Kansas University
Hemenway
Kansas Board of Regents
Goossen
Regents
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