Republicans demand balanced budget in exchange for keeping federal agencies open
Washington Republicans will ship budget legislation to Clinton only if the White House proposes a balanced budget and a quick-deal schedule. House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Democrats that Congress may pass a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open through Tuesday if a genuine balanced budget plan reaches negotiable terms by December 22.
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Clinton
White House
House
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich
R-Ga
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Anti abortion activist returns to Kansas prison for nine years
Rachelle Shelley Shannon, an anti abortion activist from Grants Pass Oregon, has begun serving nine years and eight months in Kansas maximum security prison for women after an August 1993 attack on Dr. George Tiller. She previously faced federal charges in Oregon and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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Topeka
Kan
Wichita
Kansas
Rachelle “Shelley” Shannon
Grants Pass
Ore
George Tiller
Shannon
Oregon
Amish Challenge Greenfield Road Closure Over K96 Plan
Haven and Yoder Amish communities protest the planned closure of Greenfield Road as part of the K96 four lane project. They filed 161 signatures to Kansas Department of Transportation Reno County Commissioners and lawmakers claiming religious freedom infringement and negative impact on commerce and daily life. A closure would extend a five minute trip to nearly 30 minutes one way.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Haven
Yoder
Transportation Department
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Phelps son faces third trial after hung juries in two cases
Shawnee County District Attorney Joann Hamilton said she will retry the son of anti-homosexual activist Fred Phelps Sr. after a second trial ended in a hung jury. Jonathan Phelps, 36, was accused of inciting violence by insulting Topeka woman Michelle Mickey Brokaw with terms linked to local sheriff Dave Meneley. The Lyon County jury previously deadlocked over free speech limits in the January 20, 1994 remarks.
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Emporia
Kan
Shawnee County
Joann Hamilton
Topeka
Fred Phelps Sr
Lyon County
Jonathan Phelps
Hamilton
Phelps
Michelle
Mickey
Brokaw
Meneley
Dave Meneley
Serb leader peace gesture amid Bosnian split
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic declared an end to war in the Serb half of postwar Bosnia while opposing Sarajevo's unification under Serb rule. NATO plans to deploy about 60,000 troops, including 20,000 Americans, to enforce the Dayton-backed peace accord dividing Bosnia into Serb and Muslim Croat federations. Croatia's President Tudjman announced arrest warrants for 82 Bosnian Croats as he criticized the Dayton process and cooperation between Bosnia and Croatia.
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Bosnia
Sarajevo
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U.N
Bosnia-Herzegovina
NATO
Brussels
Belgium
U.N. Security Council
Avaz
Oslobodjenje
Gering
Franjo Tudjman
Croatia
Dayton
Tudjman
Ohio
Paris
retiring judge honored by full Franklin County crowd
District Court paid tribute Thursday to Judge Jules V. Doty as he retires after 12 years on the bench and decades in private practice. A standing room crowd in the west courtroom heard from Thomas Gleason Jr. and Gene Riling as they lauded Doty for fairness, wisdom, and guidance to young lawyers, with jokes about “read the statute” and memories of old trial days.
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Doty
West
Thomas Gleason Jr
Lawrence
Gene Riling
Gleason
Franklin County
Uncle Doty
Franklin County District Court
RTDS
Riling
Pete Pearson
Ottawa
September sales boost Franklin County tax revenue growth
Franklin County shows robust September sales tax with 37 percent rise to 254043, lifting fiscal year total to 723705, while Ottawa and Wellsville report gains and Williamsburg posts 616 in September as countywide tax le vies stay strong across the region.
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Franklin County
Kansas
Ottawa
Wellsville
Williamsburg
Senate panel seeks court battle over Clinton notes
A Senate investigative committee voted 10 to 8 along party lines to urge federal court action against President Clinton for refusing to release disputed 1993 Whitewater notes from a former aide. The panel urges full Senate approval to press the subpoena fight, with next steps by Senate lawyers to file. Democrats called it a political escalation, while the White House signaled willingness to negotiate.
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Ashington
Senate
Clinton
Whitewater
Alfonso D'Amato
R-N.y
White House
Paul Saybanes
Maryland
Mike McCurry
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