Facing an Environmental Protection Agency crackdown on rules for handling pesticide sales, Douglas County’s weed control chief, Jerry Kemberling, was protesting that the federal regularors were fickle and that a state law was needed to achieve some stability.

Local law enforcement officers captured two escapees from an Oklahoma pre-release facility following a high-speed chase on rain-slick streets in Lawrence. Nobody was hurt as the convicted burglars-robbers were nabbed.

Edward and Sandra Reed planned to request a permit for a second taxi service in Lawrence. Currently, Yellow Cab-Union Cab owned by Ward Thompson had the taxi service.

Lawrence got rain and some icing but escaped a serious storm that hit a number of Kansas areas to the west. Goodland reported up to 11 inches of snow. Other western regions got more than a foot of snow cover.