Kansas City mayor faces mounting legal fees and lagging donations
State Kansas City AP reports supporters of Mayor Joe Steineger fear legal costs could exceed 50,000 as donations to his defense fund remain well below 10,000. Aide Peter Adams and the mayor are charged with bribery and instructing a witness to lie to a grand jury. Trial set for Sept. 7. Fundraising event planned for Aug. 26. contributors under 500 dollars need not be disclosed by law.
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Kansas City, Kan
Joe Steineger
Bill Young
Young
Steineger
Kansas
Paroled prisoners dropped at Missouri bus station
Kansas corrections officials apologized after a bus driver unintentionally dropped off paroled inmates at the Kansas City Missouri station. The group, paroled from Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Ellsworth, Kansas, was misdirected east past the Welcome to Missouri sign.
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Kansas
Dale Close
Missouri
Close
Bill Miskell
Kansas Department of Corrections
Ellsworth Correctional Facility
Ellsworth
Kan
Texan convicted in molestation case in Augusta
Rolland Berreth, 43, was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping and three counts of aggravated sodomy after a week-long trial. He faces at least 10 years, with sentencing set for October 28. He offered no reaction to the verdicts as he left the courtroom.
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Kan
Texas
Augusta
Rolland Berreth
District Court
Berreth
Beleaguered crime bill advances to Senate hurdle
Panetta warned a Senate filibuster would be a disgrace as the House passed the crime bill 235 to 195 after dawn bargaining. The measure seeks to hire 100000 police, fund new prisons, and ban military style assault weapons, with debate by the Judiciary Committee led by Sen Biden.
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Ashington
White House
Leon Panetta
House
Panetta
NBC
Joseph R. Biden
Del
Judiciary Committee
National Rifle Association
Zedillo claims win in Mexico election
Ernesto Zedillo, candidate of the PRI ruling party for 65 years, won the Mexican presidency in an election seen as a test of political maturity. Voters turned out massively amid concerns over ballot shortages and irregularities raised by Civic Alliance observers, as the country pursued economic reforms linked to NAFTA. The campaign followed turmoil including an Indian rebellion and the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
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EXICO
Luis Donaldo Colosio
Tijuana
Zedillo
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
Civic Alliance
Ottawa Board of Education to discuss 1994-95 goals
The Ottawa Board of Education meets at 7:30 pm at the superintendent's office to review retreat ideas for 1994-95 goals and report preliminary district enrollment figures. Action items include approving an activity fund resolution, authorizing sale of surplus property, and leasing the central office. A potential fourth item on personnel may be added.
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Ottawa Board of Education
S. Main
Board of Education
Don Duncan
Duncan
Ing
U S weighs options on refugee dilemma
U S officials weigh responses as Cuban refugees sail from Cuba in record numbers. Defense Secretary Perry plans talks with Coast Guard and Navy in Florida to study action including possible naval blockades to pressure Fidel Castro, while sanctions target Cuban money transfers.
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Defense
William Perry
Coast Guard
Navy
Florida
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
White House
Leon Panetta
Pentagon
Dennis Boxx
Panetta
Clinton
Underwear thefts spark July arrests in Ohio area
Willoughby police arrested Jamie V Bradshaw 23 for breaking and entering. More than 450 items of women underwear were seized from his car and home alleged stolen from laundry rooms at 10 apartment complexes over two years. Bradshaw is from Painesville population 15000. In nearby history another man was convicted for stealing men underwear including cutting briefs from a sleeping man.
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Willoughby
Ohio
Jamie V. Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Painesville
Irene Geschke
Chicago
Fishing trip yields cocaine bales in offshore haul
A charity fishing tournament off Lighthouse Point Florida yielded three bales of cocaine weighing 30 kilograms each, totaling over a million dollars. Anglers found the white netted box floating about 20 miles out, tasted the powder, and awaited Coast Guard arrival amid anxious fears of rivals.
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Ighthouse Point
Fla
Mark Weingarden
Boca Raton
Coast Guard
Dan Barnett
Fort Lauderdale
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