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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 2003
Page
8
Area high school teams face decisive weekend games with playoff implications. Coaches emphasize urgency as wins are essential to advance, making this weekend crucial for postseason hopes across multiple programs.
Tonight will be cooler and mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and lows near 40. Saturday will be partly cloudy with highs around 58. Saturday night remains very cool with partly cloudy skies and lows in the lower 30s.
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Donors at a Madrid conference pledged funds for Iraq but fall short of the World Bank estimate of 56 billion dollars needed over four years. Estimates include 19 billion in grants and loans pledged by Friday, plus 20 billion from Washington, with Kuwait Saudi Arabia Iran and Italy among contributors. Ayad Allawi, leading Iraq’s Governing Council, urged support while France and Germany held back new funds and the EU offered 812 million for next year.
Betty Scott-Neufield of Pomona heads a Kansas Silver Haired Legislature leadership role and helps craft bills on senior issues. With 125 Kansas seniors, she aims to press concerns for older Kansans in the January State Legislature session. The grandparents bill seeks foster custody and financial aid, inspired by a family experience with her brother seeking custody of grandchildren.
Missouri brokers George Young and Kathleen McConnell pleaded guilty to multiple wire and mail fraud counts in a phantom cattle scheme that prosecutors say defrauded clients of 166 million dollars. They admitted the scheme began in late 1998 and co owned United Livestock Services and Professional Business Services serving investors across Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Iowa.
Federal agents arrested more than 300 illegal workers at 60 Wal-Mart stores nationwide and searched the office of a top executive. Authorities say the action stems from probes into Wal-Mart cleaning crew contractors with violations continuing under direct corporate knowledge. Workers were detained as they finished night shifts in 21 states. Wal-Mart is Bentonville based.
Elm Street will be closed between the old U S 50 bypass and 19th Street for an indefinite period starting Monday as the county rebuilds the road. Conoco pipeline relocations 18 to 30 inches below surface prompted the project with city county and Conoco cooperation. Public Works Admin Ray DeJulio said the street will be built up with rock and remain a gravel road until summer 2004 when chip seal paving is planned. Ditching and grass stripping along the right of way will accompany the work, expected to last about two weeks barring weather delays. the county recycling center at 2038 S Main will be inaccessible from Elm but reachable from the south via old U S 50.
Republican demands for competition between traditional Medicare and private plans emerge as a central obstacle to a new prescription drug benefit for seniors. Senator Grassley notes the term premium support sparks debate, with conservatives pushing for traditional Medicare to compete with private options while Senate Democrats seek a broader path forward.
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