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MONDAY,AUGUST 18,2003
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man killed during robbery attempt at grocery store
WESTWOOD — A Lenexa man working the early morning shift at the Apple Market grocery store in Westwood was killed by a disguised man who was attempting to rob the business
attempting to rob the bushes It was the first homicide in Westwood since the Kansas City suburb was incorporated in 1949, and the second in Johnson County this year.
Ray Ninemire, 68, was filling in for a supervisor when a man who witnesses said was disguised as Abraham Lincoln or an Amish person walked into the store around 6 a.m. carrying a pistol.
The robber pointed the gun at a cashier and was directing her to a customer service counter when Ninemire came toward the front of the store, police said.
out of the store, police sate.
The robber shot Ninemire in the leg and also shot at a female customer, who was slightly injured by bullet fragments. The gunman fled without any money; Ninemire bled to death from his wound.
Police described the assailant as about 5 feet 5 inches tall with a medium build. He was possibly a
white man and wore a fake beard, a long, dark jacket and a dark hat with a brim all around
Judge keeps some evidence out of trial
OLATHE — A jury in a murder trial next month will not hear allegations that pastor Neil Edgar Sr. used a stun gun to discipline two children.
A Johnson County judge also ruled Friday that prosecutors could not introduce testimony about money paid to Edgar and his wife, Christy Edgar, to care for foster and adoptive children.
The Edgars and family baby sitter Chastity Boyd are charged with first-degree felony murder in the death in December of 9-9-year-old Brian Edgar, Neil Edgar, 48, Christy Edgar, 46, and Boyd, 20, also are charged with abusing two other Edgar children.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 15.
Brian suffocated after he was bound head to toe with duct tape at the family's Overland Park house, according to previous testimony in Johnson County District Court.
Judge John Bennett ruled on several prosecution requests to introduce evidence of other incidents that occurred before Brian died.
During Friday's hearing, District
Recall election slated for Nov. 4 in Harper
HARPER—Harper County Commissioner Robert Sharp is facing a recall election again. This time he's not holding out much hope that it will be canceled.
The Harper County clerkvalidated enough signatures Thursday on a recall petition to set a Nov. 4 election date.
"We're glad it's done," said Eleanor Williams, a member of the recall committee.
the recall the recall is based on accusations that Sharp and other commissioners violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act in April 2001 by talking to each other on the phone about the hiring of a county employee.
county employee.
Former Harper County Commissioner Kenny Williams was ousted last year in a recall election based on similar allegations. Sharp's recall was next on the agenda, slated for Aug.27, 2002.
that some of the people who carried the petition did not live in the commissioner's district—as required at that time by state statute—so he canceled the election.
agenda, stated for Aug. 19, 2007.
But Pratt County District Court
Robert Schmissse rulied
Sharp's term as commissioner expires in November 2004.
cash-only gift to help pay for art museum
OVERLAND PARK — A cash-only gift of $1.5 million will allow planners of a new contemporary art museum at Johnson County Community College unusual freedom in assembling the museum's collection, organizers said.
collection, organization Jerome and Margaret Nerman of Leawood announced last week that their family would donate $1.5 million to help construct a 30,000-square-foot museum. Unlike many other art-related gifts to area educational institutions in recent years, the Nermans' donation does not include a preassembled art collection.
"There's no strings attached;
that's the best part of it," said Byron C. Cohen, a Kansas City gallery owner and art collector.
gallery owenwins The Nerman gift, combined with $1 million to be raised from private and foundation funds.
will be used to construct the lobby and exhibition spaces of the museum, said Bruce Hartman, director of the college's Gallery of Art and director of the new museum.
Driver suspended again after crash on same route
CHANUTE—A man has been suspended after a bus he was driving ran off a state highway near the site of an earlier accident involving the same driver.
Jent involving the sent
Twelve people were injured
Thursday night when a Jefferson
Lines bus carrying 27 passengers went off Kansas 47 in Neosho County.
The driver, Bobby Boydston,
66, Edmond, Okla., said another
vehicle was in his lane when he
ran of the road into a ditch.
of the road into a bus Boydston gave the same explanation to police when a bus he was driving ran off the high way near the same spot on July 1. injuring four people.
Boydston was suspended following the July 1 accident but had been reinstated. He has been suspended again while Thursday's accident is investigated, said Dae Aarsold, vice president of operations for the Minneapolis, Minn.-based Jefferson Lines.
Catholic school hooks up to public electric service
However, witnesses and passengers on the buses during both accidents disputed Boydston's statements about another vehicle being on the road, Neosho County Sheriff Jim Keith said.
WICHITA — Rising natural gas costs have forced a Catholic school to abandon its electric generators and become a customer of Westar Energy.
former of Veraea Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita had for 40 years, relying on three natural gas generators deep within the school. The group that founded the school in 1963 wanted to be self-sufficient, so a power plant was included in the building plans.
he bottleneck problem.
    high gas costs and projections that they would go even higher convinced school officials it would be cheaper for the school to use the public electric utility than to continue producing its own power.
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