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A collision between a car and a school bus near Bonner Springs today.
A teenage girl is dead, and eight students are hurt.
Good evening.
Kelly is off tonight.
It was a tragedy this morning while students were on their way to school.
It happened at the intersection of 32 Highway and County Road near Bonner Springs.
The driver of a car turning left when a school bus smashed into the right side of the car.
Laura Moritz tells us a woman working near the accident heard the deadly noise.
Kelly Lane was on her way to school on this rainy Friday morning when the car she was riding in hit a school bus head on.
The Highway Patrol says the car skidded across the highway and into the ditch.
Doris Beers heard the crash.
The car was over in the ditch, and the young gentleman that was driving at that time was conscious, I'm quite sure.
But the young girl was very critical at that time.
The driver of the car, 16-year-old Greg Eikhoff, was life-flighted to KU Med.
Kelly Lane died at the scene.
Doris Beers says the accident frightened her but doesn't surprise her.
She says this stretch of Highway 32 is dangerous, especially the hill near the intersection.
You can't see anything.
Just look.
When you come up, a car is coming up over that hill.
They cannot see me, nor can I see them when I pull out there.
And they're traveling 65 miles an hour.
The Highway Patrol says Greg Eikhoff had his signal on but turned too soon.
Doris says she fears for her life every time she makes that same turn.
I pray when I get there and stop at the stop sign, I say my prayers that I'm going to make it.
She says she prays for the families who've lost loved ones here, too.
Laura Moritz, KMBC 9 News.
The eight students on the school bus were all treated for minor injuries and released.
Meanwhile, news of the student's accident traveled quickly.
16-year-old Kelly Lane was killed on her way to school.
School administrators say that counselors came from other districts to help the students cope.
We'll have more on how the students are being helped coming up on our news tonight at 6 o'clock.
No suspects in custody but the investigation continues in the death of a 13-year-old boy.
Flowers now mark the spot where a 13-year-old Kansas City boy was shot in the head.
Richard Savatis also died from a gunshot wound he received on a Wednesday night.
Since then, neighbors have been showing their support for the boy's family.
The victim's mother says the tragedy is starting to set in.
Even right now I still can't believe it's true because it doesn't all seem, it doesn't seem so real but he is dead.
Police have questioned people in this case but no arrests yet tonight.
Kansas City police tonight have ruled the death of Willie Garrett accidental.
Police believe the boy's four-year-old brother was holding the gun when it went off.
Alfred Williams' own words were played for the jury in his murder trial today.
Williams admits to the shooting but also expresses remorse.
Peggy Bright is live once again from the Johnson County Courthouse with our continuing coverage of this case.
Peggy, fill us in.
Well Lori, 17-year-old Alfred Williams was arrested one day after the shooting at Olathe North last September that killed two and injured four.
Then two days after the shooting he gave police a videotape statement.
The jury got to hear Williams' own words in the courtroom today.
The tape lasts just a few minutes.
Williams admits taking a gun to Olathe North on September 24th in that videotape.
When he saw a friend being beaten, he said on the tape that he was afraid for his friend's safety, pulled out his gun and started firing.
How many times did you shoot the gun?
I've said it all five times.
When you shot the gun, did you point it at anyone?
No.
I was pointing it at my dad.
Okay.
And where did you think you were pointing it at?
There.
Williams then contradicted earlier testimony.
He told police that he didn't know anybody had been hurt or killed until he watched the news later that night.
He said he broke down in tears and then later on in the videotape he also apologized to the dead boy's parents.
Chris, Lori, back to you.
Peggy, I'm interested, does this wrap up the prosecution's case?
Well, it's certainly a pretty strong ending and it is getting to that point.
The prosecution had hoped to rest its case today.
It did not get around to that before the jury was dismissed late this afternoon.
So they'll all be back on Monday morning.
The prosecution will probably rest sometime Monday and then the defense will begin.
Thanks very much, Peggy.
You bet.
We also have new information tonight about a former Baptist Church youth minister in Smithville.
We've been following the story of Gary Yautze for you.
Today he pleaded guilty to two sex offenses involving teenaged girls.
He'll be sentenced next month, but right now he is free on bond.
And another court appearance for Michael Abrams today.
The state is trying to prove that Abrams should be classified as a sexual predator.
Today a judge agreed with the state and ordered Abrams to Larned State Hospital for a mental evaluation.
His next court date is in September.
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the state law requiring people convicted of violent sexual crimes
to register with the county sheriff when they move into the community.
The constitutionality of the 1994 law had been challenged by Kim Myers, a disbarred attorney from Emporia.
He was convicted of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his law office in 1991.
While the president promises to reduce what he calls the epidemic of teen smoking,
he's unveiling government regulations declaring nicotine an addictive drug and setting strict limits on advertising and sales.
The goal is to cut teen smoking in half in seven years.
In Platte County, where much of Missouri's tobacco crop has grown, they're not happy with the president's decision today.
Michael Mahoney visited some tobacco farmers who think the president is more worried about votes than public health.
Most of Missouri's tobacco is up here between KCI Airport and St. Joseph.
They grow burly tobacco in Missouri, and when it begins to turn light green or yellow, as this field is starting to do, then it's time to harvest.
And at this warehouse, predictably, some tobacco growers think President Clinton doesn't need to regulate tobacco any further.
I think he's got a lot more problems than with tobacco. He should start with the alcohol and all the drugs.
They are more harmful for anyone than the tobacco has ever been or ever will be.
Siler and the others agree here with the president on one thing. Teenagers shouldn't smoke.
And they claim the government could stop it right now if they wanted to by enforcing the laws that are on the books now.
Instead, tobacco farmer Dan Morgan thinks the president is just looking for political points.
He's posturing for you media. I guarantee you he's posturing for whatever type of a boost that he can get in the polls is strictly a poll situation.
Morgan takes it another step. Tobacco and tobacco products, he says, are among the most heavily taxed items in the country.
Morgan says that Washington and its $4 trillion debt needs to keep that in mind.
You're talking $40 for one stick of tobacco that will produce two pounds, two pounds, two pounds of tobacco.
So who's paying who? Who's subsidizing who?
So up here in the heart of Missouri's tobacco country, naturally they don't think very much of President Clinton's actions today.
They believe that there are enough laws on the books already restricting young people from smoking.
And they also believe that President Clinton is merely playing to the election year polls.
Michael Mahoney, KMBC 9 News, Weston.
There are 3,000 acres of burly tobacco in production in Missouri.
Meantime right here at Channel 9, we're still trying to dry out from that better than two inches of rain that fell in the downtown area.
Man, what a mess. Bev Chapman is live in the newsroom now with a progress report. Bev?
Chris?
How bad is it?
Well, other than the fact that it looks like we're doing wind tunnel research, and I doubt very seriously if Martha Stewart would endorse this look,
but it's effective because right now we're drying out tapes and everything.
It really isn't too bad. You know, in the larger scheme of things, tornadoes, floods, fires, this is not a major disaster,
but when it happens where you work or live, it takes on a different meaning.
It apparently started in a drain pipe carrying water from the roof.
Before 8 o'clock, it started cascading through the newsroom and employees started running for cover.
Make sure nobody's in a hurry up, Jeff.
The first concern was safety. Engineers checked every room.
Firefighters were quick to respond and take control of the situation,
covering computers and setting up makeshift barricades to stop the water that was quickly making its way to other levels of the building.
But this four-month-old, newly remodeled newsroom was soaked. No one was spared. Most importantly, no one was hurt.
Back live in our slightly soggy newsroom, and as you can see, people are still trying to dry things out.
We were very fortunate. The engineers here were able to get the electricity off.
We had no incidents involving that, and, you know, it'll just take a few days and things will be back to normal.
You know, the really interesting about that is, and something that I don't think that any of us realized at the time last night,
was the possibility for electrocution with all of the computers.
And it wasn't until the firefighters came in last night that, I mean, they really, they did a heck of a job last night.
Tonight at 6 o'clock, we'll show you the water that actually seeped into the computer cables so the potential was there.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm assuming it's safe to say we've broken the drought.
Yeah, in fact, Bruce Jones tells me we passed that mark last month. We're well above normal for this time of year.
Thank you, Bev, and thank you, Bruce.
We certainly hope we don't see anything like that again for quite a while.
You know, now I know what it feels like when, you know, people who have been involved in floods and have had to recover from floods,
every time they see it rain, they think, can this happen again? Brian Busby, can it? Say it ain't so?
I hope not, you know. Repeat of the newsroom flood of 96, I guess.
But it looks like all the showers and thunderstorms from Mother Nature setting up shop well to the south, so we should be high and dry.
But if you are heading down toward the Lake of the Ozarks, it looks like the rain's going to follow you down there.
And areas to the point in south of that even are going to get wet for most of the weekend.
Patricia, thank you so much for this photograph. Got off the phone with Patricia Betteridge of Raytown, Missouri.
Thanks for the photograph, taken pretty close to where she lives.
Seventy-seven. Eighty-two is the high, where eighty percent humidity is high. Westwind's seven, high temp so far today, is about our present.
Our low sixty-nine and a half an inch of precipitation at the airport.
Heavier amounts, as you saw, in downtown and in Bonner Springs specifically.
Not a repeat tonight, but we'll have the weekend forecast, which does show some not so encouraging signs, towards Sunday. That and more later.
Thank you, Brian. Well, you know how your head hurts when you eat ice cream too fast?
Next in our Health Watch Report, Dr. Dean shows us why that happens.
And later, as Shopper's Paradise comes to town. Stay tuned.
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