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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 2002
Page
7
Tonight will be cloudy with lows in the lower 40s and increasing breeze. Tuesday remains cloudy with a 40 percent chance of light rain in the afternoon, followed by a 60 percent rain chance Tuesday night. highs reach the mid 50s. Weather, Page 10.
Baldwin City hosted the Maple Leaf Festival drawing about 25 000 attendees over the weekend. Crowds toured 250 craft booths and a quilt show while enjoying foods like buffalo burgers, hamburgers, bratwursts, fried Twinkies and funnel cake. The Ballad of Black Jack ran for the 16th year as part of the event, and shoppers and locals praised the sunny weekend and vendors’ offerings.
Authorities say two people are linked to the sniper killings in Virginia and Maryland. Hanover County official Stuart Cook announced the arrests at a noon news conference as investigators interrogate the pair. A gray white van was surrounded near an outdoor phone in a Richmond area operation with at least one man taken into custody and another detained.
In Washington Ari Fleischer cited more than one arrest in the sniper case and declined to provide details. Police also withheld comment. A second cryptic statement from the sniper task force suggested authorities had received a message and planned a response. On Sunday they urged the person who left a message at Ashland scene to come forward.
The Supreme Court, in a divided ruling, refused to halt executions for killers who were 16 or 17 at the time of their crimes. Justice Stevens led four justices in urging an end to this practice as a relic of the past while Breyer signaled support for reevaluating death row lengths in cases like Florida inmate Charles Foster, who has spent over 27 years on death row.
Morning commuters faced heavy fog across Ottawa with forecasts of more murky days ahead. Meteorologist Steve Kays of the National Weather Service in Topeka attributes the fog to moisture from the southern Plains and cooler nights signaling a broader shift to unseasonably cool, cloudy conditions this week. Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Kimball noted motorists were cautious but no fog related accidents were reported as authorities slowed traffic.
Ottawa University officials and students gathered Friday as shovels struck ground near the campus tennis courts to mark the start of the Hull Center. The 2.8 million, 20000 square foot athletic facility will house training rooms classrooms weight rooms and locker rooms and include the Braves Hall of the Provost. Jeff Hull, OU alumnus and board member who contributed 500000 toward construction, was honored. Hull’s family legacy at OU spans football basketball and grounds leadership reflecting the school’s strong ties between education and athletics.
Ottawa University's Wilson Field House named the Iron 5 Court with three Iron 5 members present. The Iron 5 Bill Frear Blaine Rush Bob Musgrave A B Turner and Spencer Martin played every game from 1946 to 1949 and won three straight titles. Their legacy helped form a Varsity Club to fund future OU athletics and support Hull Center plans. Frear later coached OU in the 1950s and 1960s.
An executive from Iola Ae heads a major Dow manufacturer unit in the Atriumed States, positioning the company as a leading wine producer in the region.
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