Picture This The pond at Finney County Game Preserve dries up
The fishing pond at the Finney County Game Preserve is drying up due to reduced inflow and rising evaporation. Local officials note water levels have fallen, affecting stocked fish and public access for anglers.
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Finney County Game Preserve
Justified Deputy Shooting in Finney County Case
Finney County Attorney John Wheeler ruled the July 12 shooting of En carnacion Nevarez by a sheriff s deputy justified. Sgt Jerry Quint on paid leave will not face charges in Nevarez s death after Wheeler sought an external coroner inquest and then an expert opinion from Mark Dunston in Florida. The incident followed a hit and run where Miguel Nevarez, 24, drove into a mobile home. Police responded to 340 S Farmland Rd after an abandoned vehicle breached a fence.
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Finney County
John Wheeler
Encarnacion Nevarez
Garden City
Jerry Quint
Wheeler
Mark Dunston
Excalibur International Training and Logistics
Orlando
Fla
Dunston
Nevarez
Miguel Nevarez
Quint
Robert Pacheco
David Widows
S. Farmland Road
Pacheco
Nevarezes
World AIDS Day Vigil Reflects on HIV Crisis
About 30 people including WEKARE volunteers and Mexican American Ministries representatives lit white candles Saturday, walking from Pine and Eighth to Steven's Park and back. The event promoted education for children and awareness of stigma under the theme Live and Let Live. Tina Hahn of WEKARE and Lindsay Rome noted the disease affects everyone and public funding for medicine.
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Eighth Streets
Steven’s Park
Kansas
Aids Resources and Education
Wekare
Wekare Advisory Board
Lindsay Rome
Rome
Tina Hahn
Faith Courage Work at Harper Salvation Army Volunteers
Two Harper Kansas residents Eric Latta and Judy Latta, divorced in 1980, found purpose with 20 weekly hours of volunteering at the Salvation Army since 1999. They mentor youths at the Youth Center and Teen Night, with Capt. Harold Frost praising them as dependable role models who help change lives.
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Salvation Army Youth Center
Eric
Judy Latta
Nathalie Rodriguez
Eric Latta
Salvation Army
Judy
Harold Frost
Lattas’ long road to a life together begins in 1980
Judy Latta recalls meeting Eric as a small town nurse and cop and their first date on May 10, 1980. He asked her out after encouragement, and they married on November 1, 1980. The couple faced 22 years of major life challenges ahead, including job changes and uncertainty.
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Eric
Kansas City
Judy Latta
Joyce
Harper Hospital
Judy
Lattas
Garden City girl among three killed in Thanksgiving weekend wreck
Nicole Hope Rodriguez, 12, of Garden City died from injuries after a Saturday morning one truck crash in Pawnee County. The Yields investigation continues as authorities confirm at least three fatalities on Kansas roads during the Thanksgiving holiday period.
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Garden City
Kansas
Nicole Hope Rodriguez
Pawnee
The
Agencies react to Graves cuts and regroup
Kansas state agencies learned they must live with an average 3.9 percent funding reduction for the remainder of the fiscal year as Gov. Graves seeks to close a 310 million shortfall. Lawmakers elected Monday will set the budget path, deciding on further cuts or new revenues amid pending revenue numbers after November estimates were slashed by 363.5 million.
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Bill Graves
House
Kathleen
Graves
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