Missing Witness Delays Murder Hearing in Hughes Case
The preliminary hearing for Shirley Hughes, 47, Wellsville, was postponed for a May 1 session after key witness Terry Cohen failed to appear. State witnesses described the scene, evidence, autopsy findings, and ballistic tests tying Hughes to the March 22 shooting death of her husband, Stanley.
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Jay Bemis
Shirley Hughes
Wellsville
Hughes
Stanley
Terry Cohen
Franklin County
Jim Clark
Larry Coursen
Cohen
Brad Gilges
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
Gilges
Woods
Maddrell
Tucker
KBI
Topeka
Robert J. Pinet
Coursen
Pinet
Orton
Moddrell
Orioles Stop Royals Winning Streak
Orioles halt Royals six game run as pitching and timely hitting push them to a 4-2 win. Royals struggle with runners in scoring position while Baltimore capitalizes on early mistakes to seize control.
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Orioles
Royals
County Forecast With Showers and Storms
Variable cloudiness today with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the low to mid 60s. Mostly cloudy tonight with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows upper 30s to low 40s. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers Sunday. Highs in the upper 50s to low 60s. Southerly winds 15 to 25 mph today becoming northwesterly 10 to 26 mph tonight. Wind advisories in effect for area lakes today.
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Guatu
Area Lakea
Legislative cleanup session opens in Topeka
The 1978 Kansas Legislature reconvenes at 10 a.m. for a three day cleanup session. Key issues include use value farmland appraisal capital punishment Laetrile marijuana penalties tax relief and workmen’s compensation expansions. Gov Bennetts veto of nursing home training requirements may be overridden. The session also revisits a vetoed nursing home bill and a use value appraisal bill.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Department of Health and Environment
Bennett
Senate
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Ale
House
Mike Glover
Lawrence
Wolf Creek sale inquiry says no intent to mislead lawmakers
A Kansas investigative committee concluded the Wolf Creek plant sale to Nebraska utilities shows no intent to mislead the legislature. It faulted officials for not informing lawmakers about the proposed 17 percent sale while noting no intent to mislead.
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Topeka
Kan
Wolf Creek
Kansas
Kansas City Power and Light Co
Nebraska Power Companies
Movement Is Coasting By
Diane Yeamans reports on the Longest Walk from Alcatraz to Washington, D C as Indians protest a slate of bills led by the Native Americans Equal Opportunity Act of 1977. Ernie Peters notes the march is spiritual, with broad support and a daily cost near $300, while cautioning against sweeping treaty changes.
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Diane Yeamans
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco
Washington, D.C
Ernie Peters
South Dakota
Peters
Ottawa
United States
Washington State
Ted Kennedy
Lake Perry
Pope Pleads On Knees For Moro Release
Pope Paul VI made a dramatic appeal to the Red Brigades asking for the unconditional freeing of Aldo Moro as a death deadline neared. He wrote, I pray to you on my knees, liberate Aldo Moro simply and without any conditions, signing the plea dated Friday.
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Rome
Paul VI
Red Brigades
Aldo Moro
The
Moro
Vatican
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Rex Bowling
Fred Vogler
Bill Malson
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
L. N. Speer
Clark
Cohen, Crockett
Baldwin City
Sheriff's Department
Leonard
Brush
Wellsville City Hall
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Carol Moddrell
Jim Woods
William Tucker
FBI
Area News
Betty Ford
Robert F. Bennett
Arnold Berman
D-Lawrence
Paul Stevens
Associated Press
Main Street
Washington
Jim Kramer
American Agriculture Movement
Martie Floyd
Johnson
Oklahoma City
AAM
Pope
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