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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1999
Page
7
The Pomona girls track squad dominated Three Rivers opposition to clinch the upper division league crown, signaling their continuing mastery as the season progresses.
Tonight will be cool and clear with overnight lows around the mid to upper 40s. Tuesday brings sunshine and warmer highs in the mid 70s as winds shift to the south at 10 to 15 mph.
Authorities probe cause after a mobile home at 1346 Virginia Terrace burned Sunday night. The Bryant property held three occupied homes. neighbor saw a vehicle leave before the fire. Firefighters arrived by 9:42 p.m. and spent about two hours extinguishing the blaze. The incident follows several recent fires at the same address reported by Cutler Township Fire Chief Joe Schweiger.
Jean-Philippe Wispelaere, 28, charged with trying to sell over 713 classified U.S. documents to a foreign spy posed by the FBI, after receiving 120000 dollars in two batches. He worked for Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organization July 1998 to January 1999 and had access to top secret material under defense treaties. He allegedly offered to sell documents in Bangkok, triggering U.S. officials to alert authorities.
Port Huron residents face a tense return as 21 district schools reopen after a custodian found a bomb near Holland Woods Middle School and four Holland Woods students were arrested in an alleged mass murder plot. Extra guards will be posted and security tightened as families express fear. a sixth grader Whitney Fontenot died at a Sunday news conference announcing the reopening.
Recurring theme describes bizarre bonds amid crime. A Missouri woman who forgave a head‑shooter and later married him after his actions left her comatose and with a stillborn fetus, and a San Francisco case where Anthony Tyrone Davis was jailed for hammer attack but the victim later married him and did not testify.
Walker Hendrix of the Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board objects to a settlement on the Western Resources and Kansas City Power & Light merger. He argues it favors the companies, with potential $1.2 billion in future profits while consumers gain little. Kevin Fowler of Topeka emphasizes fair sharing of savings among all merged utility customers, amid divisions over rebates and rate relief. Wichita officials push for equalized rates, arguing KGE customers face substantially higher costs. The Kansas Corporation Commission will weigh terms as Topeka and Wichita seek favorable outcomes.
Tulsa man Robert Dale Rebold, 48, was arrested near Nolkies Cash Saver in Wellsville after threatening the bus driver and another passenger with a knife on a Saturday night trip to Kansas City. He remains jailed on suspicion of aggravated assault. No injuries reported. Authorities consider possible federal transportation law violations.
In weeks after a federal gambling moratorium proposal, states move forward with new lotteries and casinos. Massachusetts Kentucky West Virginia seek first regional casinos while Tennessee South Carolina and Alabama expand lotteries. Rhode Island allows more slot machines. Illinois discusses a Cook County riverboat casino. California tribal leaders negotiate compacts with the state.
The Supreme Court will decide in 2000 whether the Driver Privacy Protection Act of 1994, shielding motor vehicle records from public release, overstepped Congress authority. The case stems from South Carolina and follows mixed rulings by four federal appeals courts on the act's interstate commerce reach and free press implications.
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