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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 2014
Page
3
Classes at Eugene Field Elementary in Ottawa were canceled Thursday after an overheated boiler filled the building with smoke. Firefighters investigated at 5:01 a.m. and the Kansas State Fire Marshal allowed the school to reopen Friday once repairs are planned.
Kansas climate remains tense as veteran Sen. Pat Roberts, seeking re election, faces a residency challenge from GOP rival Milton Wolf who questions whether Roberts truly lives in Kansas. Wolf urges Secretary of State Kris Kobach to disqualify him, while Kobach says authority rests with a formal objection and state board review.
The Kansas House rejected Senate Substitute for House Bill 2389 aimed at shortening death penalty appeals, merging with a public affidavit request measure. Rep. John Rubin noted Kansas’ secrecy on information, while Sen. Caryn Tyson opposed the death penalty portion. The state, reeling from a recent Oklahoma botched execution, reviews its lethal injection practices though no inmates have been executed since the 1994 reestablishment of capital punishment.
U S Rep Lynn Jenkins announces her annual free jobs fair at Agriculture Hall Kansas Expocentre Topeka set for 9 am Monday. Last year more than 900 attended. this year 72 employers seek to fill 1030 positions with no registration required. Participating firms include Mars Chocolate North America Kansas Highway Patrol The Pampered Chef and Verizon Wireless.
The report lists dismissals on Wednesday for Carolyn Baker Linda Fowler and Anessa Nation of Ottawa and Richard Traver of Quenemo on Thursday. It details thefts including a copper theft at an AT&T site on John Brown Road and multiple arrests by sheriff and police departments in Ottawa and Wellsville, with warrants, curfew, DUI, and disorderly conduct incidents.
Wellsville Police report activities Wednesday and Thursday including assist to another agency on I-35 milepost 198, and warrants and public assists on Walnut and Main streets. Ottawa Fire Department responds to Eugene Field Elementary boiler malfunction causing smoke, resulting in Thursday closure and Friday reopening, with six medical calls handled Wednesday.
Ottawa High School students buckled up 90.3 percent in a recent survey, up from 61 percent three years ago. Police chief Dennis Butler noted dramatic improvement during Friday’s assembly at the school, part of the Seatbelts Are For Everyone program funded by the Ottawa Police Foundation and Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office.
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