Radio ad sparks anger in tourist officials over Kansas Lottery promo
Topeka WIBW station promoted a Great Escape Hybrid Douber ticket giveaway tying a trip to Kansas City and a Garden City mockery to the Kansas Lottery effort. Tourism leaders denounced the ad as damaging to western Kansas branding and said they were surprised to learn of it while it ran.
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Topeka
Garden City
Dezvous
Cawker City
WIBW
Kansas City
Kansas City Royals
Missouri
Kansas Lottery
Kansas
Finney County Tourism & Convention Bureau
Callie Remschner
Remschner
Holcomb Celebrates First Summer Family Fun Day
About 200 residents attended the Holcomb Summer Celebration as Colleen Lauer of the Holcomb Recreation Committee led the event. Ernesto Lopez said the gathering would be a fun family outing, marking a new community tradition in Holcomb.
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Brett Robinson
Holcomb
Lonnie Baird Park
Faith Biermann
Colleen Lauer
Holcomb Recreation Committee
Ernesto Lopez
Learning on many levels by Kathy Nguyen
Garden City teen Kathy Nguyen reflects on daily life lessons from family, Upward Bound, and city experiences. At 17 she balances honors society activities with plans to leave for college, viewing graduation as a springboard to new challenges.
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Kathy Nguyen
Nguyen
Garden City High School
Garden City
Western Kansas farmers eye triticale as livestock feed
Seaboard Farms joins with Lane County grower Vance Ehmke to promote triticale, a cross between wheat and rye, as profitable drought resistant forage. Kansas State researchers back trials with plans to plant acres this fall as co-ops seek feeding options.
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Dighton
Kansas
Seaboard Farms Inc
Lane County
Vance Ehmke
Johnson
Vic Martin
Kansas State University Research and Extension
South Central Kansas Experiment Field
Hutchinson
Martin
Ehmke
Gary Friesen
Scott Co-Op
Scott City
King Fahd dies after modernizing Saudi and backing US ties
King Fahd, who modernized Saudi Arabia while balancing tradition and extremism, died as Crown Prince Abdullah steered the kingdom through militant crackdowns and elections. The United States pressed Riyadh to increase oil output despite strained relations after 9/11.
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Saudi Arabia
Fahd
Kingdom
United States
U.S
Kuwait
Abdullah
Osama bin Laden
America
Washington
King Fahd
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