Weather outlook for tonight and Tuesday with storms
Tonight is partly cloudy with lows in the lower 70s. Tuesday remains partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and high temperatures in the mid 90s. Tuesday night also carries a 30 percent storm chance. Weather, Page 10.
Ottawa Middle School Named Low Achieving in Kansas
Ottawa Middle School appears on a Kansas list of low achieving Title I schools after declines in math and reading scores. The 1999 2000 eighth grade results draw concern, though district officials caution the measurement compares cohorts rather than individual students.
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OMS
Bush
Ottawa
Kansas
U.S. Department of Education
Franklin County
Judy Miller
Kansas State Board of Education
Dale Fox
Wolfe
Fox
Miller
Ottawa Middle
Antique tractors highlight Richmond Free Fair parade
The Richmond Free Fair featured a first time antique tractor show with 28 tractors and combines. A parade down Main Street drew about 2,000 people, with 197 exhibitors including 98 hogs and 16 steers. Notable entrants included a 1935 Allis Chalmers WC and a 1945 John Deere.
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Richmond
Rossman
Jack Rickabaugh
Garnett
Jessica Piersol
Williamsburg
Gene Vining
Joe Schweiger
Osawatomie
Vining
Henry Morgan
Greeley
John Deeree
Rudy Morgan
Greeley Hardware and Implement
Morgan
Richmond Fair
David Short
Jason Short
Midlothian
Texas
Amy Schmitz
Aschmitz
Ottawaherald
Ron Bishop
John Bucker
Katie
Larry Cox
Cockshutt
Main Street
Study finds many young gay men unaware of HIV infection
Research at the International AIDS Conference shows more than three quarters of HIV positive men aged 15 to 29 in major US cities did not know they carried the virus. The CDC surveyed 5719 men across six cities from 1994 to 2000. 77 percent of positives were unaware, with black men most affected.
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Barcelona
Spain
U.S
United States
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Duncan Ellar
Baltimore
Dallas
Los Angeles
Miami
New York
Seattle
MacKellar
Phill Wilson
Aids Policy and Training Institute
Texas towns watch flood crest as waters recede
Brownwood and New Braunfels face historic floods after more than 30 inches of rain in a week. Lake Brownwood peaks at 9 feet, then recedes to seven, as eight people die and 48,000 homes statewide are damaged. Federal disaster requests span 13 counties. 17 counties sought declarations.
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Brownwood
Texas
Pecan Bayou
Mel Robertson
New Braunfels
Guadalupe River
Fred Maxwell
Maxwell
Allison
American Red Cross
Bush
Rick Perry
Guadalupe
Hill
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Bim
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Associated Press
Ronald Valdiserri
CDC