Cheney and wife to campaign in Joplin

Joplin, Mo. — Vice President Dick Cheney, along with his wife, Lynne, will make a campaign stop Wednesday in southwest Missouri, hosting a town-hall meeting in Joplin.

Cheney will be back in Missouri just a week after he was in Lee’s Summit in suburban Kansas City, where he compared the current state of the world to that just after World War II.

President Bush and Cheney, along with Democratic challengers John Kerry and John Edwards, are expected to make frequent stops in Missouri as the Nov. 2 presidential election approaches. Polls indicate Missouri, which has voted for the eventual winner in every presidential race but one during the last century, could go either way.

Cheney and his wife will play host to the event at 12:30 p.m. at the John Q. Hammons Convention Center.

Road work limits parking

Road work at Kansas University today will affect parking on Lilac Lane.

Crews will be preparing the lane from Jayhawk Boulevard south, including traffic circles in front of Blake Hall and Twente Hall, for an asphalt overlay. Parking will not be allowed on the street, and parking-lot access may be delayed.

Kansas City resident found guilty in rage case

Kansas City, Mo. — A Jackson County jury on Monday convicted a 52-year-old man of hunting down and killing a man who had provoked him earlier in the day during a road rage incident.

Thomas M. Brown Sr. was found guilty of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2001 death of Edward Chacon, 29, of Kansas City.

The jury recommended Brown serve 22 years in prison on the murder charge and five years for armed criminal action. Formal sentencing was scheduled for October.

Brown and his son, Thomas Brown Jr., 26, both of Kansas City, went looking for Chacon after he cursed them on the road, prosecutors said. The Browns found Chacon’s car at a Waffle House restaurant, parked near it and went inside, assistant prosecutor Bryan Krantz said during closing arguments.