Memorial teaches tolerance at Oklahoma City bombing site
Oklahoma City visitors view recovered victim shoes as they reflect on the 1995 attack. Memorial staff train schools in tolerance, stressing nonviolence and cultural respect while guiding future generations through lessons and trips to the site.
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Oklahoma City
Memorial
Alfred P Murrah Federal
Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
Timothy McVeigh
Kari Watkins
Cambridge
England
Watkins
Jeff Edwards
Edmond Sequoyah
Edwards
Oklahoma
Washington D.C
Francis Leonard
Don Leonard
Secret Service
Dan O’connell
St. Louis
Oklahoma City Memorial
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Memories of Black Sunday 70 years after Dust Bowl
Dodge City resident Don Hahn recalls April 14 1935 when a warm day turned ominous as dust clouds swept central plains. The 1930s drought and winds buried communities across Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Colorado and Kansas leaving families without power and some deaths from dust pneumonia amid the era called the Dirty Thirties.
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Dodge City
Central Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Colorado
Kansas
Don Hahn
Hahn
Sebelius Signs Military Bill of Rights in Kansas
Gov Kathleen Sebelius signed a law granting tuition waivers for children and spouses of dead and missing soldiers and POWs to attend Kansas public colleges. The measure excludes about 10 percent of the Kansas National Guard living outside the state. She also signed a health coverage protection bill for military families after active duty.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas National Guard
Guard
Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas signs open records law on contracts and pay
Kansas adopts a new law clarifying that public employee contracts and agreements are subject to the Kansas Open Records Act. The measure, effective July 1, responds to a 2003 request by the Lawrence Journal-World seeking full disclosure of compensation to athletic director Lew Perkins, including nonpublic funding.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lawrence Journal-World
University of Kansas
Lew Perkins
University
Athletic Corporation
Wife Seeks Advice Over Barmaid’s Flirty Behavior
Dear Annie discusses a husband pressured by a barmaid at a private club who kisses him hello and goodbye and leans in closely. The advice urges the husband to restrict kissing, file a complaint if needed, and considers the wife’s concerns valid and serious.
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Annie
Priety
Tom
Nancy
Pennsylvania
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Forouni
Nita
Camelia Suleiman
Israel
Suleiman
Sebelius
Mathy Mitchell
Marcy Sugar
Wharton’s
Garden Center
Garden City
Lge Rae
Uae
JVC
Fleming
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