Ottawa board to discuss baseball at Ottawa High School
The Ottawa Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the board office to hear representatives seeking baseball at Ottawa High School. Other agenda items include change orders for the new Ottawa Middle School, filling a vacancy on the Recreation Commission, resignations and employment, and an executive session for personnel matters and negotiations.
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Ottawa Board of Education
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Walnut
Ottawa High School
Ottawa Middle School
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Abortion ban advances in Kansas House debate
In Topeka the Kansas House prepared to debate and vote on a Senate passed bill banning partial birth abortions and restricting late term procedures. Speaker Tim Shallenburger noted a day’s change in stance as leaders push to keep the post viability exception for life threatening fetal conditions. The Senate previously approved 27 to 12 and the measure now moves through a joint conference committee. Governor Graves has said the life threatening exception must remain for signing.
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Topeka
Kan
House
Tim Shallenburger
Shallenburger
Senate
Bill Graves
Belfast peace pact closes in on deal after long talks
Eight parties negotiating Northern Ireland's future received a 69 page revised draft from George Mitchell as Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern work through the night toward a pact to end decades of violence. Mitchell urged a midnight Thursday deadline and negotiators pressed on at Stormont in east Belfast amid hopes of a breakthrough.
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Northern Ireland
Alastair Campbell
Tony Blair
U.S
George Mitchell
Mitchell
Stormont
Blair
Bertie Ahern
Coerced confession frees man in Alabama murder cases
Alabama Supreme Court dismisses three murder convictions against Michael Pardue as coerced. Pardue remains jailed after Board of Pardons and Paroles refuses release due to three later prison convictions for attempting to escape. In Boston, Kevin Ackerman’s arson counts are dismissed after misidentification proven, with witnesses and alibis backing him.
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Michael Pardue
Alabama Supreme Court
Pardue
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Boston
Boston University
Kevin Ackerman
Ackerman
Chuck Shepherd
P.O
St. Petersburg
Fla
Compuserve.com
Scientific panel urges teaching of evolution in schools
Washington AP The National Academy of Sciences calls evolution the most important concept in modern biology and urges public schools to teach it. The guide stresses no debate within science over evolution and notes its role in understanding antibiotic resistance and biological change.
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Washington
National Academy of Sciences
Arizona Board of Education
Elizabeth Carvellas
Essex Junction
Budget bill OK nears in Kansas legislature
Kansas lawmakers near adjournment as House negotiators drop a rider from the appropriations bill and approve an $8.5 billion state budget for next fiscal year. The conference panel prepared its report by about 10 p.m. Thursday, with debate expected this afternoon. A separate pension bill on KPERS remains unresolved, focusing on cost-of-living adjustments for retirees.
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Opera
Kan
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
KPERS
Boyheld in burglary shootout in Emporia
In Emporia Kansas a 12 year old boy was taken into custody on suspicion of involvement in an early Monday burglary during which another suspect was shot and killed by a police officer. Detectives arrested him Wednesday evening in Kansas City Kansas and he is held at a juvenile center. A man named Somphone Syscumphone 28 of Wichita was shot and killed. See ARREST page 3.
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Emporia
Kan
Mike Heffron
Kansas City
Somphone Syscumphone
Wichita
Ottawa dialysis center earns national honors
The Kansas Dialysis Service clinic at 1320 S. Ash in Ottawa treats 17 patients weekly with a staff of medical specialists and state of the art equipment. The Ottawa unit emphasizes a life embracing approach and individualized programs, part of KDS expansion from Topeka to Sabetha next month.
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KDS
S. Ash
Ottawa
Topeka
Lawrence
Manhattan
Leavenworth
Sabetha
Scott Soldier
Associa
Steve Morse
Kansas
Stan Longhofer
KOS
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