Weather outlook for tonight and Tuesday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight with a low around 65 to 70. Tuesday brings a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, continuing humid with a high in the lower 80s. South wind 10 to 20 mph. Weather, Page 2.
Train strikes unoccupied pickup at Nevada Road crossing
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotive hit an unoccupied 1994 Chevy Silverado pickup left stuck on the tracks near Nevada Road north of Sand Creek Road at 11:05 p.m. Saturday. Person Amy W. Dickinson, 16, reported she had backed across the tracks and then left the vehicle before the collision.
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Eisenhower Road
Plane Crashes Into Satanta Elevator. Pilot Killed
Fred Kittle 61 of Satanta died when his 1965 Cessna crashed into the Satanta Co-op grain elevator during foggy weather while he was en route home for the weekend. He aborted his landing at Satanta Airport and radio contact was lost three minutes later. A co-op worker found the wreckage around 9 am Saturday.
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Cliches Come to Life in News of the Weird Notes
In March two professors found identical poll results from MBAs and inmates on ethics, with inmates seen as more loyal to employers. April reports from San Diego State University show 25 business-ethics students flunked for cheating. Burlington Homes near Bakersfield denied attorney Liebaert and spouse a five bedroom home, prompting a lawsuit. Also, Sydney inmate Killick, jailed for armed robbery, was helicopter‑liberated by his girlfriend and remains at large.
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Australia
Muzzleloading club hosts 26th Kansas State Championship near Overbrook
About 90 participants gathered for the 26th Annual Kansas State Championship Muzzleloading Matches near Overbrook. Members focused on the process of loading and firing authentic rifles rather than winning, with many guns built by their owners.
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Ron Bishop
Jeff Latz
Leavenworth
Jim Krause
Lawrence
Santa Fe Trail Plainsmen
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Court upholds witness deals
The Supreme Court refused to overturn a ruling that leniency in exchange for testimony is lawful, preserving a 10th Circuit decision that leniency deals do not violate a federal law penalizing payments for testimony. The Kansas case centered on Sonya Singleton and a Wichita drug ring.
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Kansas
10Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sonya Singleton
Wichita
10Th Circuit
Congress
Appeals Court
Court to hear case on tough cable smut rule
The Supreme Court agreed to decide if a federal law meant to shield children from sex oriented cable networks violates free speech for channels like Playboy Television. The Clinton era appeal aims to revive the law after a Delaware federal judge struck it down as sweeping too broadly. The appeal notes the law targets channels that carry nearly all sexually explicit content, imposing a narrow restriction on non subscribers.
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Supreme Court
Playboy
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Clinton rejects U S funding for Serbia rebuild
President Clinton said the United States will not spend money to rebuild Yugoslavia’s bridges and roads after NATO air strikes, offering humanitarian aid instead. He and German Chancellor Schroeder planned a Balkan recovery conference in Sarajevo to coordinate donor support while maintaining political pressure on Milosevic.
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Kosovo rebels sign demilitarization pact with NATO
Kosovo Albanian rebels and NATO sign a demilitarization pact in a tent at Allied Forces HQ to neutralize the Kosovo Liberation Army. The agreement requires KLA to abandon checkpoints, halt military activity, store weapons, and clear mines within seven days as 40,000 Serb troops depart the province amid shifting postwar control.
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