Missouri hit-and-run driver caught by imprint on victim pants
Kansas City report says Jack T. Morgan, 51, arrested Monday on aggravated battery leaving scene and no insurance after investigators used laser light to read the first two characters of a Missouri license plate imprinted on June Aurelio's pants from a March 18 collision in rural Johnson County Kaw.
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Ron Jones
Kansas Bureau of Investigation Laboratory
Jack T. Morgan
June Aurelio
Johnson County
Kaw
Missouri
Aurelio
University of Kansas student dies after fall from dorm window
In Lawrence a 19-year-old University of Kansas student, Scott McWhoner of Dallas, fell from a Corbin Hall fourth-floor window and died after investigators noted possible sleepwalking and alcohol in his system. Autopsy results pending. Authorities said the death appeared accidental and linked to disorientation.
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Kan
University of Kansas
Scott McWhoner
Dallas
Texas
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Sgt
Rose Rozmiarek
University
Corbin Hall
Nixon funeral tribute at birthplace draws mixed crowd
Presidents and dignitaries attended Richard Nixon’s funeral in California while long lines of ordinary mourners endured cold damp weather. Up to eight hours waited as a three mile queue filed past the flag draped casket. Nixon, who died Friday at 81 after a stroke in New York, was brought home aboard the same jet that returned him after his 1974 resignation.
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Orba Linda
Y Calif
Richard Nixon
Barbara Casey
Westminster
Nixon
California
New York
Existential drama at Ottawa University explores choice
Ottawa University freshman Chris Keuchel assists senior Shawn Bunning during a rehearsal for The Victors, Sartre's 1947 drama about resistors captured in Nazi occupied France. Tickets run Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Administration Building auditorium, priced $5 adults and $3 children. Some material may be unsuitable for children.
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Ralph Young
Ottawa University
Chris Keuchel
Overland Park
Shawn Bunning
Horton
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Nixon A reluctant star amid broadcast farewell
Richard Nixon’s funeral draws TV attention as a reluctant pioneer of television. The medium both reveals and obscures, and Nixon, despite disliking TV, grasped its immense influence and power to shape public perception.
Mandela votes as bomb wounds 18 in South Africa election
Nelson Mandela cast the first vote of his life in the election seen as historic. A bomb at the international airport wounded 18, two seriously, as police arrested 31 whites tied to attacks aimed at derailing the vote.
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Tina Susman
Associated Press
Channesburg
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
International
Mandela
African National Congress
Johan van der Merwe
Plane may have stalled in tragic China Airlines crash
In Nagoya an Airbus A300-600R exploded after aborting landing as investigators joined at the site. The disaster killed 262 people and injured nine, including a 3-year-old boy and his 6-year-old brother. A 10th rescue victim died later. most bodies burned or mangled beyond recognition.
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Nagoya
Japan
China Airlines
UN satisfied Serb artillery withdrawal near Gorazde
U N observers found Serb heavy weapons only at two sites after a three week assault on Gorazde. Yasushi Akashi said the 2:01 a.m. deadline passed without NATO air strikes and no further action was needed at that moment.
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Arajevo
Herzegovina
NATO
United Nations
Gorazde
U.N
Yasushi Akashi
Zagreb
Croatia
Akashi
Brussels
Woman Forms Franklin MS Support Group
Burgoon starts the Franklin County Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at First Christian Church Ottawa with access for handicapped. aims to support patients and later include families as MS impacts the whole family. She notes 12 Ottawa and 18 Franklin County diagnoses, 250000 nationwide, and reiterates no cure exists.
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Athy Burgoon
Franklin County
First Christian Church
11Th and Cedar
Burgoon
Ottawa
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