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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 2003
Page
7
Tonight turns colder with partly cloudy skies and a chance of snow flurries after midnight. Saturday remains partly cloudy with a chance of flurries, followed by a cold, mostly clear Saturday night. Sunday warms with partly cloudy skies. See Weather page 2.
A six minute pursuit through Ottawa led to a suspect’s arrest near the Water Plant after driving a stolen Jeep and colliding with two patrol cars. Officers recovered items in the vehicle and continued investigations into related thefts. The suspect’s identity was withheld pending verification.
Eight candidates at an Ottawa Chamber forum said elementary schools need upgrades and teachers are underpaid. They warned tax increases may be inevitable to fund improvements, with options including new bonds and building plans to attract families and business. Debate covered restoring OMS building, facility formats, and retaining neighborhood schools versus expanding capacity.
Wellsville City Council voted to buy terrorism insurance for 281, approve keeping umbrella liability at 1 million, and reject higher coverage. They raised sanitation rates by 51 cents per person and debated a new sewer plant, near accepting a 2 205 million bid but opting to seek two more weeks of bids. They also donated 150 to Crimestoppers.
Intense U S bombardment targets Baghdad with two large bunker busters striking a communications tower. In Basra, Iraqi fighters fire on civilians as British forces encircle the city and pledge aid to the wounded. Umm Qasr port receives relief supplies aboard the Sir Galahad.
The Iraqi government signals a prolonged struggle as it lures forces into urban combat. Rumsfeld contemplates siege over invasion to trigger civilian revolt while British delays at Basra echo a strategy of attrition. Lt. Gen. Wallace reports Iraqi tactics and stretched supply lines slowing the campaign.
Three year old Lane Alan LeRoy along with his mother Kim LeRoy grandmother and two sisters has spent a week tying yellow ribbons in Wellsville to honor family members serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. His father Jeff LeRoy and uncle Kurtis Casselman are deployed with a Fort Leavenworth National Guard infantry unit in the Middle East. The effort began with a single bow on a yard tree and grew as more neighbors joined in.
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