Kansas farmer quits to sell life and land for new career
At 43 Gene Bittel of Ellis Kansas left generation farming amid debt and grim crop outlooks. He switched to pharmaceutical sales earning $50 000 a year with benefits, divorcing his farming life. Analysts say more Kansas farmers will quit as high fertilizer prices and weak wheat crops bite.
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Ellis
Kansas
Gene Bittel
Northwest
Bitter
Bittel
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Roche Laboratories
Duane Hund
Kansas State University
Hund
Budget cuts threaten Kansas transportation program
Kansas budget woes deepen as Transportation Secretary Dean Carlson warns the 10 year plan could lose 224 million dollars, about 2.7 percent of its 8.18 billion base, risking incomplete projects from the 1999 approval. Delinquent tax recovery and estate tax revisions emerge as possible fixes amid a 205 million dollar deficit.
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Topeka
Dean Carlson
Carlson
Stephen Richards
Richards
Derek Schmidt
Rocky Nichols
Dtopeka
House Appropriations Committee
Enue
Sen
John Vratil
R-Leawood
Bush
Vratil
Feds
Cannibalism motive linked to three Kansas City murders
Police say Marc Sappington, 21, proposed cannibalistic motive in three slayings since April 7 in Kansas City Kansas. He faces three counts of first degree murder and a $2 million bond after a 16 year old victim’s body was found in his basement. Green and Weaver also killed.
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Kansas City
Kan
Marc V. Sappington
Vince Davenport
Sappington
Jeffrey Dahmer
Dahmer
Wisconsin
Columbia Correctional Institution
Alton
Fred” Brown
Brown
Terry Green
Michael Weaver
Green
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KDOT
William Dodson
Michael J. Baughman
William A. Dodson
E. Fulton St
Garden City
Sandhillorthopaedic.com
Christ
Bible Christian Church
Clifford Hope
Gchs
E. Mary Street
Fleming Street
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