Topeka woman gets dual liver and kidney transplant
Beverly Halverson, 41, near Topeka, expected to be released after a 17 hour operation in Kansas City. The first known dual transplant in the region used organs from the same donor, a second liver for hepatitis C damaged liver.
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Kansas City
Kan
Topeka
Beverly Halverson
Halverson
Jameson Forster
Man gets 15 years for killing 3 year old in Kansas
Darrell B. Curran, 46, of Lenexa, pleaded no contest to murder in the 1994 death of Cynthia Vaughn after allegedly slamming her head on a floor when she dirtied her diaper. He was sentenced to 15 years Thursday amid anger-control counseling during probation in a battery case involving the child's mother.
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Clathe
Kan
Darrell B. Curran
Lenexa
Cynthia Vaughn
I-35 resurfacing work behind schedule in Kansas counties
KDOT says the first phase on 18 miles of I-35 in Franklin and Miami counties is about 75 percent finished. Weather and subsoil moisture caused delays. the $5.6 million project aims for a June 21 completion. Phase one involved asphalt removal, concrete base repair, and a three inch asphalt layer, with a second phase adding a final one inch surface. Traffic limits were kept to five miles at a time.
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Franklin
Miami Counties
Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
Michael Stringer
Stringer
Simpson to face deposition in civil suit Monday
O J Simpson is scheduled for a civil deposition in the murder case of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Sources say the deposition occurs Monday, though the court barred disclosure of the date. Simpson did not testify in the criminal trial and has given limited interviews on the case.
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Anta Monica
S Calif
O.J. Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Simpson
Meals on Wheels reports weather disrupts Friday deliveries
The Herald notes frigid conditions caused the local Meals on Wheels program to miss Friday deliveries for the first time since 1992. Linda Netterville says crews worked Thursday to send out meals, but ice and drifting snow halted Friday routes in Franklin Osage Anderson Miami Coffey counties. Extra weekend meals were arranged for Ottawa, with volunteers prepared to deliver Saturday for seniors 60 and older who call before noon.
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Meals On ‘Wheels
Meals On Wheels
Mid-America
Linda Netterville
Franklin
Osage
Anderson
Miami
Coffey
Netterville
Ottawa
Wyandotte County consolidation bill advances in Senate
The Senate tentatively approves a Wyandotte County consolidation measure asking voters to decide on creating a five member commission to study merging city and county governments. If approved, the panel would report to the Legislature with recommendations next year. final action set for Monday.
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Matt Truell
Associated Press
Opera, Kan
Senate
Wyandotte County
House
Board of Regents
Mark Parkinson
R Olathe
Kansas City
Kan
Bill Graves
Bonner Springs
Edwardsville
Lake Quivira
Parkinson
Graves
Celebrity lookalike spending on plastic surgery tale
Roseanne Long of Long Beach California disclosed to Geraldo Rivera in August that he has spent about twenty thousand dollars on plastic surgery to resemble actor Tom Arnold, with another ten thousand possible to finish the job. A Pearl River Louisiana resident reported a porch trash routine after a break in October, and in Woodbridge New Jersey a July burglary saw furniture moved but no items stolen. U S Representative Frederick K Heineman in an October Raleigh News and Observer interview claimed his combined salary and pension of one hundred eighty three thousand dollars places him in lower middle class. Steven Radford, aged 49, of unspecified location is mentioned.
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Long Beach
Calif
Geraldo Rivera
Tom Arnold
Pearl River
Woodbridge
N.J
Raleigh
N.C
News and Observer
U.S
Frederick K. Heineman
Heineman
Steven Radford
Crime-Hampered Robberies and Odd Heists Across Cities
A roundup of unusual crime cases: a Chicago grocery hold up where a tuna helper box slowed a bullet, a Newark bank robbery with a note and a photo ID slip, a Kennedy Airport stash of 189 hundred dollar bills hidden in condoms, and a Montreal street scam where a couple faced a stranger offering to buy their baby with a blank check during a September hearing in Springfield Illinois.
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Chicago
Vincente Arriaga
Chicago Sun-Times
Arriaga
Reginald Currie
Dwight Lewter
Hudson City Savings Bank
Newark
N.J
Currie
Lewter
Carlos Trujillo
Kennedy
Sophie Rodier
Montreal
Real Plouffe
Plouffe
Charles Hoeq
Springfield
Roger Holmes
Hoegq
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