Governor Finney faces potential inquisition over truck weights
Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan said he may seek an inquisition to compel Gov. Joan Finney and two aides to cooperate with probes into alleged orders not to ticket overweight farm trucks. He cited a staff refusal to talk to his office and warned the step could be used to press the investigation forward.
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Bob Stephan
Joan Finney
Highway Patrol
Stephan
Mary Holladay
Finney
Phil Clanton
Holladay
Steve Anderson
Motor Carrier Inspection Troop
Attorney General Office
Globe defies judge reports gag order in drug case
Atchison judge bans publication of specific facts and the gag order itself. The Atchison Daily Globe front pages the order as jurors could be tainted. Defendant John W. Alston, 30, of Maple Woods, Minn., faces trial Tuesday on cocaine possession and related charges. The judge allowed limited past history if Alston testifies about honesty.
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Atchison, Kan
Atchison Daily Globe
Atchison County
Maurice P. O'Keefe
O'Keefe
John W. Alston
Alston
Maple
Sundby
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Globe
Martin Asher
Appeals court rules in dog and cow cases in Kansas
The Kansas Court of Appeals issued rulings on two matters. One panel set guidelines for admitting evidence obtained via bloodhounds in criminal trials, the first definitive Kansas ruling on the issue. A second panel ordered a civil trial involving an Osage County couple and their nephew over a cattle feeding operation seen from the couple’s home.
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Topeka
Kan
State Court of Appeals
Kansas
Osage County
Clinton faces tax hurdle after Senate tie vote
In Washington AP reports the Senate tied 49 to 49 on Clinton’s tax plan, VP Gore breaking the tie to save the bill. Clinton said the Senate version is similar to his, while House support remains uncertain as differences between chambers loom.
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Washington
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House
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al Gore
Rainy Depot Roof Crumbles Failing Preservation Efforts
Franklin County Historical Society faces a collapsing roof and missing heat as leaks sprawl through the 1888 limestone museum. Deb Barker and Forrest Lowry cite funding gaps, failed tuckpoint grants, and rising repair bids of about 235000 for full inside remodeling, roof, heating, cooling, and window replacement.
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Franklin County Historical Society
Deb Barker
Historical Society Board
Barker
Forrest Lowry
Historical Society
Lowrey
Santa Fe Railroad
Lowry
Loyd Builders
Informant leads FBI to bombers in New York plot
Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, 32, and seven others are held without bail in a vast bombing and assassination scheme linked to the World Trade Center bombing and El Sayyid Nosair’s trial. The accused mastermind allegedly planned to blow the United Nations, two Hudson River tunnels, and the federal building in Manhattan, while discussing security guard killings and using an informer.
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Meir Kahane
Nosair
World Trade Center
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FBI
Siddiq
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Federal Building
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New York Newsday
Murray Kempton
Trade Center
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