Kansas Briefs Summary of Local Violent Incidents
In Olathe a 10 to 15 person beating left a Colorado man in satisfactory condition with two other white victims also attacked. two defendants from nearby cities were arrested but no charges filed yet. In Salina Kansas Medical Society leaders urge universal care funded by taxes, noting rural doctor shortages unless salaries adjust. In Ulysses a Liberal man was found guilty of second degree murder in a fatal June ax attack, while a co-defendant faces similar charges. In Topeka a Kansas City man died after being struck by a freight train on the Union Pacific Bridge over the Kansas River. alcohol cited as a factor.
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Clathe
Rodney King
Los Angeles
Alvin Sykes
Justice Campaign of America
Olathe
Salina
Kansas Medical Society
Larry Anderson
Wellington
Anderson
Kansas
Ulysses
Grant County
Francisco R. Vigil Jr
Greg Walker
Liberal
Vigil
Walker
Oklahoma Panhandle
Hooker
Clifton Means
Seward County
Don Scott
Means
Topeka
Andres M. Torres
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas River
Randy Carver
Kansas Democrats elect delegates to national convention
Kansas Democrats elected 23 of their 42 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in New York this July at district conventions in Great Bend Topeka Kansas City Wichita and El Dorado. The State Committee will name 13 more on May 16. Delegates include Gov. Finney and state chair John Bird as super delegates.
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Topeka. Kan
Kansas
New York
Great Bend
Topeka
Kansas City
Kan
Wichita
el Dorado
Democratic State Committee
Jayhawk Tower
Dan Glickman
Jim Slattery
U.S. House
Tsongas
Brown
Clinton
Betty Batts
St. John
1St District
Bruce Kent
Salina
Marie Peterson
Monument
Kansas Committee
Bill Clinton
Larry Tenopir
Shawnee County
Georgina Webb
Peg Chrisman
Tom Thompson
Mission
Susan Wilson
Roeland
Mills remembered as model lawmaker on Capitol Hill
Wilbur D. Mills 38 year House career ended by a liaison with a stripper. He is praised as a tax authority and reserved expert in tax code by colleagues including Dan Rostenkowski and President Bush. Mills died at 82 in Kensett Arkansas from a heart attack after a long service on Ways and Means and in Congress.
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Washington
Wilbur D. Mills
Congress
Capitol Hill
Wilbur
Dan Rostenkowski
D-Il
House
Ways and Means Committee
of Representatives
Mills
Kensett
Ark
Ways and Means
Powerball jackpot rises to eight million dollars
In Des Moines the Powerball drawing produced no winner Saturday night, pushing the Wednesday jackpot to an estimated 8 million dollars. One ticket matched five numbers but missed the Powerball for a 100 thousand dollar prize. Kansas Cash Lotto also had no grand prize winner, with a 95 thousand dollar estimated pool and multiple smaller payouts across 29 and 919 tickets. The next Cash Lotto drawing is expected to reach about 125 thousand dollars.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sue Bilstad
Kansas
Kansas Reno
Kansas Lottery Commission
Gorbachev to Speak at Westminster Amid Iron Curtain Parallels
In Fulton Missouri forty six years after Churchill warned of the iron curtain Mikhail Gorbachev is set to address Westminster College. An overflow crowd of more than fifteen thousand is expected along with an international TV audience. Gorbachev hints at a constructive democratic role for America while urging faster help for Eastern European democracies.
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Fulton
Winston Churchill
Europe
Mikhail Gorbachev
Westminster College
Churchill
Warren Hollrah
Westminster
St. Louis
Kansas City
Gorbachev
U.S
Tam
America
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