Man charged with murder also faces four drug counts
Shawnee County District Attorney Joan Hamilton filed drug charges against Stephen Medford Shively in the case linked to Topeka police officer Tony Patterson's Oct. 12 death. Shively remains jailed on a $1 million bond. police seized nearly 12 ounces of marijuana valued about 1,475 to 2,360 dollars during the raid.
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Topeka
Kan
Tony Patterson
Patterson
Shawnee County
Joan Hamilton
Stephen Medford Shively
Shively
Kansas
Hamilton
Budget Dims Loom As Silver Haired Legislature Opens
In Topeka Kansas state officials warned of a tight two year budget as senior citizens begin the Silver Haired Legislature. Lt. Gov. Sheila Frahm cited Gov. Graves urging agencies to curb spending by 1.5 percent and to propose next year with cuts up to five percent. Aging secretary Thelma Hunter Gordon urged resilience amid strained resources.
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Topeka
Kan
Sheila Frahm
Bill Graves
Thelma Hunter Gordon
Kansas company settles suit over Medicare claims
Manor Care Inc., parent company of Wichita and Overland Park nursing homes, paid 150000 to resolve a civil suit alleging false Medicare claims. U S Attorney Randy Rathbun said the settlement follows a report by an Overland Park employee about improper billing including non Medicare patient treatments.
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Kansas City, Kan
Wichita
Overland Park
Manor Care Inc
Silver Springs
U.S
Randy Rathbun
Rathbun
Concordia to mark 50th anniversary of WWII camp closure
Everett Miller a music instructor at Cloud County Community College leads a weekend celebration in Concordia Kansas opening Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the closure of a German prisoner of war camp. He has no personal ties to the camp but admires the veterans of World War II saying he would hate to think if the war had been lost.
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Concordia
Kan
Kansas
Everett Miller
Cloud County Community College
OU Reopens Campus Hall Dedication Ceremony
The Ottawa University campus will dedicate Atkinson Hall as the home for the music and theater departments. A ribbon cutting is scheduled for 11 30 a m on campus, honoring namesake Robert Atkinson. Continued on page 2.
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Ottawa University
University
Atkinson
Atkinson Hall
Robert Atkinson
Ottawa teen arrested in shooting case
A 16 year old, identified as arcus A. MBit Jr., was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Ottawa on warrants charging aiding and abetting aggravated battery and possession of drug paraphernalia. He appeared in juvenile court and was held overnight in Topeka. He is to attend a juvenile detention hearing at 3 p.m. today.
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Arcus A. Mbit Jr
S. Maple
Heath Griffin
Ottawa
Gutierrez
Topeka
Charles Bowling
Bowling
John Wilcox Jr
Wilcox
House moves close to Medicare passage
The House pressed ahead with a Republican plan to cut 270 billion from Medicare while offering seniors more health care choices. The 227 to 192 vote kept the bill on track despite a Clinton veto threat.
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Ashington
Clinton
House
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich
ABC
White House
United States
Lloyd Doggett
Texas
Martin Hoke
Ohio
Neosho Ottawa officials discuss college cooperation
Neosho County Community College Board of Trustees and college administration met with Ottawa officials to discuss how the Neosho campus functions and ways the college could cooperate with the city and Ottawa school district in the future. No specific projects were outlined.
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Neosho County Community College Board of Trustees
Ottawa
NCCC
Demonstration clarifies BB guns at Ottawa commission meeting
City Manager Scott Lambers staged a pistol demonstration for the Ottawa commission showing a Colt .45 and a Colt BB gun to illustrate lookalikes. Police have confiscated seven to ten BB pistols from youths in six to eight weeks. some destroyed. Two teens were recently shot in Ottawa, Stephanie Perez, 14, dead from a chest wound, and Heath Griffin, 17, injured.
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Ottawa
Lambers
Vicky Cummiskey
Stephanie Perez
Heath Griffin
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