Silver Screen series extends outdoor movie nights in Garden City
Garden City Recreation Commission expands the Silver Screen summer program to replay rained out films. Friday at Clint Lightner Ball Park shows Little Big League at 9 30 p m with bleacher seating. Saturday at Stevens Park The Wild Thornberries plays at 9 30 p m with benches and blankets. Call 276 1202 for weather cancellations.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
Clint Lightner
Brent’s Concrete and Construction
Minnesota Twins
Stevens Park
Garden City
Phoenix Restoration
Africa
Eliza
Mexican man sentenced in Kansas for repeated illegal immigrant trafficking
Jose Alberto Orozco-Larios, 82, was sentenced in Wichita federal court to 46 months for transporting illegal immigrants and aggravated re entry after deportation. He had prior deportations and a 2006 Pennsylvania conviction for similar charges. In March, he was stopped in Seward County driving a van with eight illegal immigrants, four of them unaccompanied minors.
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Wichita
Kansas
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Jose Alberto Orozco-Larios
Orozco-Larios
Seward
Mexico
Pennsylvania
KDHE restores computer access after two week outage
KDHE reports restoration of access to vital statistics immunizations birth records and child care licensing systems after a systems failure that began August 5. Secretary Rod Bremby says server problems caused the outage but no data were lost and more systems come online daily. School districts were advised to expect delays in verifications as records return online.
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PEKA
Kansas Health and Environment
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
KDHE
Rod Bremby
Bremby
Kansas groups win federal grant for renewable energy test
A $3 million Department of Energy grant funds a collaborative effort among Riley County Kansas State University and GEA Architects & Engineers to test renewable energy. About $1.3 million will build wind turbines solar powered street lights and a waste oil heater. The remainder backs a Resourceful Kansas program to boost energy sustainability in communities.
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Manhattan
Kansas
U.S. Department of Energy
Riley County
Kansas State University
GEA Architects & Engineers
Lenexa
Riley County Public Works
Rod Meredith
Manhattan Mercury
Judge rules funeral protest ban unconstitutional in Missouri
Federal judge Fernando Gaitan struck down Missouri laws limiting funeral protests as unconstitutional. The suit, led by the ACLU on behalf of Shirley Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church, contended the prohibitions infringed free speech rights and were not narrowly tailored to prevent disruption. The ruling follows previous delays and appeals tied to protests at servicemembers funerals and challenges to similar state measures.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Westboro Baptist Church
Topeka
U.S
Fernando Gaitan
American Civil Liberties Union
Westboro
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Koster
U.S. Supreme Court
Gaitan
Nanci Gonder
Gonder
Appeals Court
ACLU
Tony Rothert
Rothert
Kansas
Phelps-Roper
Ohio
St. Joseph
North Third Street
Clint Upchurch
Delegation Talks Energy with Oil and Gas Group
Kansas lawmakers and U S senators told members of the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association that Congress faces pressure to raise taxes on oil and gas amid large government spending. They urged the industry’s defense against perceived regulatory threats from Obama administration policies.
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Wichita
Pat Roberts
Kansas Oil and Gas Group
Congress
Roberts
Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association
Barack Obama
U.S
Todd Tiahrt
Tiahrt
Lynn Jenkins
Jenkins
Sam Brownback
Obama
Brownback
Kansas crops decline as heat reduces yields
Statewide crops suffer from extreme heat and drought with 11 percent of corn maturing, far ahead of last year. Corn conditions are 13 percent excellent, 48 percent good, 28 percent fair, and 11 percent poor to very poor. Soybeans show 16 percent poor to very poor, nine percent excellent, 42 percent good, and 33 percent fair.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Democratic Governor candidate to outline policies in Kansas
Kansas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Holland plans to present policy proposals at a Statehouse event. Holland, a Baldwin City state senator, declined to release details before the meeting. He faces Republican Sam Brownback, now a U.S. senator, in November as Brownback promotes a roadmap for Kansas.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tom Holland
Holland
Baldwin City
Statehouse
Sam Brownback
U.S
Brownback
Waiting lists grow on Kansas social services cuts
Thousands of Kansans face service wait lists as budget cuts and Medicaid reimbursement reductions strain programs. The 1 cent sales tax increase to 6.3 percent aimed to prevent further cuts, with 2,444 developmentally disabled on home and community services wait lists and 2,286 with significant physical disabilities awaiting care. Dental, respite and assistive services were eliminated, risking higher future hospitalizations and reduced home care for seniors.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mark Parkinson
Shannon Jones
Independent Living Council of
Parkinson
Lawrence Journal-World
Cal
Don Jordan
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Jordan
House-Senate Home and Community-Based Services
Bob Bethell
Alden
Bethell
Agencies On Aging Association
Association
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