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When last we saw him (in this column Oct. 11) condemned murderer Amos Ratliff was smiling on his way to a good night's sleep in the death cell within the Arkansas prison known as "the Walls," in Little Rock.
At the Oct. 9 Kansas Press Association President's Gala in Newton, four new members were inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021. They are: • The late Lloyd Ballhagen, a former Harris Enterprises executive. • Roxana Hegeman, long-time Associated Press correspondent in the Wichita bureau. • Joel Klaassen, former owner of the Hillsboro Free Press and Kansas Publishing Ventures. • Tom Slaughter, former AP bureau chief and later executive director of the Inland Press Association.
The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast said that four people have been rescued off a fishing vessel that ran aground just south of Yarmouth last night.