Weather Outlook With Storm Chance This Weekend
The forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of storms tonight with lows in the lower 60s. Saturday will be breezy and partly cloudy with a 30 percent storm chance and highs in the mid 70s. Saturday night will be colder and partly cloudy with lows in the upper 40s.
Community signs eyed to boost Ottawa events
Officials at an Ottawa Vision follow up discuss a community sign at the Carnegie Cultural Center to advertise events. Blaine Finch will meet with Chamber of Commerce and Ottawa Main Street to develop a proposal and signs along I-35 are also considered. Leasing LED displays costs about six thousand annually for five years.
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Tornadoes strike again in Kansas eastern counties
The outbreak damaged farms in Osage and homes in Anderson and Douglas counties. Three Anderson County residents were hospitalized and later released after a late Thursday tornado. Osage County reports millions in farm-property losses. The governor declared states of emergency across multiple counties as Lawrence bore the storm’s impact with about 100 residents homeless and 40 homes plus six apartments heavily damaged. National Weather Service logged tornadoes in 28 counties with at least seven confirmed by meteorologists. Gov. Sebelius warned Kansans they face another round of twisters this week.
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Two Ottawa residents jailed in Franklin County meth cases
Elizabeth Ambre Jones, 37, was sentenced to five years for manufacturing methamphetamine after a lab explosion at a cabin in 2002. Paul Carden Byrd, 46, received 12 years and two months for six meth and drug related counts in the same district court case.
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Names on the 2002 SSA Popular Baby List
Emily and Jacob topped the 2002 popular baby names with girls led by Emily and Hannah edging Madison to second. The top boys were Michael and Matthew, with Jacob returning to the No. 1 spot since 1999.
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Postwar Iraq plan envisions occupying powers for a year
The United States and Britain would run Iraq as occupying powers for at least a year or more with limited UN role. Oil money would fund reconstruction while sanctions begin lifting. Russia and France push for inspectors and continued oil-for-food under UN authority.
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