Senate Ethics Panel Probes Korean Gift Scandal
Chicago AP report says Senate Ethics Committee seeks a special counsel to head its probe into alleged influence buying in Congress. Illinois Democrat and committee chair Adlai Stevenson II notes the panel will likely appoint within one or two weeks and aims to coordinate with Justice Department findings. Attorney General Griffin Bell says information includes names of some lawmakers. Bell emphasizes pursuit of indictments where bribes are proven.
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South Korea
Tongsun Park
Park
London
State Hospitals in Kansas Seen Overbuilt by Officials
In Topeka, SRS secretary Robert Harder argued that hospital expansion across Kansas has driven medical costs up. He cited Stormont-Vail and St Francis bed growth and the Stormont Vail open heart unit, noting costs and bed capacity while Stormont Vail and St Francis officials defended via area planning and patient needs.
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Kansas City
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Areawide Planning Council
State Prison Trusty Flees In Trash Truck
Larry Eugene Gildhouse, a 29-year-old trusty from Arkansas City Kansas, fled the Kansas State Penitentiary by stealing a white trash truck during outside rounds. Ten inmates have escaped since July 17 with three still at large, including Gildhouse. He was serving five years to life for aggravated robbery and was to have a parole hearing next February.
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Andrew Evan Gipson
Harry Jack Bloomer
Near-Famous Rescue in New Hampshire River Incident
Albert Falloni, a New Yorker vacationing in New Hampshire, spotted a stranded runabout with a couple and two children floating in the Merrimack River at dusk. The boat had run out of gas about two hours earlier. Falloni joked that the man aboard did not offer peanuts, quipping he wasn’t the real Jimmy Carter.
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New Hampshire
Falloni
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