Kansas roads rated fourth best in nation
Kansas ranked fourth nationwide for road quality with 70 percent of state roads rated good, while Missouri tied for third worst with higher poor and mediocre shares. The Road Information Program notes differing standards across states and cites Kansas’s 1999 12.9 billion transportation plan and a 4 cent gas tax increase as factors in road quality.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas
Missouri
Road Information Program
Washington D.C
Lawyers clash as Hutchinson gas blasts spark discovery fight
In Reno County District Court lawyers for Kansas Gas Service and Western Resources clash with plaintiffs over broad discovery in a class action stemming from January gas explosions in Hutchinson. Judge Rome will decide early next week on access to utility data, videos, and settlement details as the case weighs certification of a damage class amid two fatal explosions.
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Mutchinson News
Wichita
Kansas Gas Service
Western Resources
Reno County
Reno County District Court
Richard Rome
Rome
Lee Thompson
Yagey
Hutchinson
ONEOK
KGS
Chuck Lee
David Bengtson
Thompson
Lee
Man sentenced in road rage death in Kansas City
Zeno Sims 38 of St Louis was sentenced to 30 years for second degree murder over the June 10 2000 death of 15 year old DeAntreia Ashley a passenger in a car driven by her boyfriend after a minor crash Witnesses say Sims fired and fled killing DeAntreia and injuring her boyfriend who survived He also received 30 year terms on armed criminal action and first degree assault to run concurrently Sims had prior federal prison sentence for distributing crack cocaine
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Kansas City
Zeno Eim
X‘ Sar City
DeAntreia L. Ashley
Sims
DeAntreia
Columbia
Two Die in Experimental Plane Crash Near Independence
Two men perished when the experimental aircraft crashed about five miles east of Independence. Pilot Harold Langworthy, 69, of Sahhaeocho, was aboard. The plane departed Coffeyville Airport and the crash was reported around 1 p.m. Sheriff and FAA officials investigated. details were incomplete.
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Independence
Harold Langworthy
Sahhaeocho
Sat
Coffeyville
Shirley Webber
Gala County
Federal Aviation Administration
Literature series returns to Ottawa Library TALK time starts Jan 16
Ottawa Library resumes its four part TALK About Literature in Kansas program with sessions on Jan 16 Jan 30 Feb 13 and Feb 27 in the City Hall library conference room. Thirty copies of each title are available for checkout. Readers are invited to attend and discuss in a series themed Community the Way We Live.
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Ottawa Library
Kansas Humanities Council
Kansas
City
S. Hickory Street
United States
Kleypas death sentence case delayed by longer appeal period
The Kansas Supreme Court weighed the death penalty for Kleypas in the State vs. Kleypas case No. 80920 after defense briefs raised 51 issues and challenged the constitutionality of capital punishment. Williams, the victim’s father, and the Kansas Catholic Conference criticized the ruling, noting the impact on victims and the law. The court delayed issuing its opinion due to thousands of pages of briefs, with a ruling expected later after Christmas.
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Kleypas
Springfield
Larry Williams
Supreme Court
Kansas Catholic Conference
Coali
Tion
Kansas
State
Kscourts
Alf Landon
U.S. Supreme Court
Florida
Georgia
Texas
John Carlin
Senate
Mike Hayden
Joan Finney
Coping With Stress Book Featured by Snyder at Ottawa Banquet
Snyder, a University of Kansas psychology professor, edits Coping With Stress. Ottawa Area Chamber banquet on Jan. 5 will feature him. the book surveys how people learn from hardship and cope with anxiety, depression, and adversity.
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Ottawa
C.R. Snyder
Snyder
University of Kansas
Ottawa Area
Kansas a reluctant history of the death penalty
Kansas has shown a wary stance on capital punishment since statehood. A 1994 law lists seven capital crimes and the high court recently reversed a death sentence for Gary Wayne Kleypas in the 1996 Pittsburg murder, sending the case back for trial. Public figures on both sides note the penalty’s limited use and debated value.
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Topeka
Truman Capote
Finney County
Kansas
Gary Wayne Kleypas
Kansas Supreme Court
Kleypas
Carrie Williams
Pittsburg
Supreme Court
Kreypas
Donna Schneweis
Kansas Coalition
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Richard Hickock
Perry Smith
James Latham
George York
Wyoming
California
Texas
America
Jamestown Colony
Spain
Union
Death row inmates by state and Kansas death penalty history
A list of death row inmates by state shows totals for each state and the U.S. Government and Military, totaling 3,709. The note explains cross-state sentences and New Hampshire’s zero inmates, with 12 states lacking the death penalty. Kansas history covers law changes, key governors, and the 2001 death chamber at Lansing. It also notes automatic appeals and the location of inmates. The Net reference is given for the Department of Corrections.
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Arkansas
Indiana
California
Oregon
Texas
Virginia
Florida
U.S. Government
Pennsylvania
Idaho
North Carolina
New Jersey
Ohio
Delaware
Alabama
Maryland
Illinois
Washington
Georgia
Utah
Arizona
Connecticut
Oklahoma
U.S. Military
Tennessee
Colorado
Louisiana
Montana
Nevada
Nebraska
Missouri
New York
South Carolina
New Mexico
Mississippi
South Dakota
Kentucky
Kansas
Wyoming
New Hampshire
Alaska
Hawaii
Iowa
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
Kansas Supreme Court
Lansing
el Dorado
Department of Corrections
Aeww.ink
Kdoc
Jury Deliberations Continue in Quadruple Homicide Case
In Wichita AP report, jurors fail to reach verdict after reviewing a videotaped confession in the capital murder trial of Oliver for the killings of Ra shawnda Wheaton 18 Odessa Ford 17 Quincy Williams 17 and Jermaine Wy 19. Jury to consider four counts of capital murder or alternatives including first degree premeditated murder felony murder or innocence.
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Wichita
Pete
Rye Cornelius
Yi Dura
Oliver
Shawnda Wheaton
Odessa Ford
Ford
Quincy Williams
Jermaine Wy
Erga
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Emporia State University
Whistle Stop
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Birney
Barbara Dew
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Death Penalty Information Center
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