Snow Buries Parts of Kansas
Eastern and central Kansas faced heavy snow with 4 to 7 inches possible under a weather service warning. Schools weighed closures as freezing temperatures lingered, with districts like Jefferson West and Lawrence closing while others stayed open. Meteorologists warned Tuesday may bring improved but still icy conditions.
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Topeka
Kansas
National Weather Service
Silver Lake
Steve Pegram
Pegram
Shawnee County
Jefferson West
Wamego
Lawrence
Lovewell
Jewell County
Nebraska
Steve Kays
Outgoing Kansas board members honored with reception
Topeka Kansas AP Linda Holloway and Mary Douglass Brown were honored by the State Board of Education as they left their posts. Holloway supported new science standards de-emphasizing evolution. Brown did not attend due to weather and her husband’s illness. Education Commissioner Andy Tompkins hosted, praising their service and noting future plans.
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Topeka
Linda Holloway
State Board of Education
Sonny Rundell
Rundell
Holloway
Shawnee
Mary Douglass Brown
Wichita
Department of Education
Bruce Wyatt
Salina
Brown
Wyatt
Andy Tompkins
Linda
Tompkins
Graves names new revenue secretary Richards to lead Department of Revenue
Gov. Bill Graves appointed Steve Richards, former Yellow Freight executive, as revenue secretary. Richards, Overland Park, joins from the state Board of Tax Appeals and will resign that post. He replaces Karla Pierce who left to join a Washington-area firm aiding IRS modernization. Richards will keep board pay and faces Senate confirmation after Jan. 8.
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Topeka
Yellow Freight Corp
Department of Revenue
Bill Graves
Steve Richards
Richards
Overland Park
State Board of Tax Appeals
Yellow Freight
Karla Pierce
Internal Revenue Service
Pierce
Senate
Inmates Sentenced for Killing Inmate at Leavenworth
Two inmates at the U S Penitentiary received 10 year terms for second degree murder of Joseph Glenn Smothers. Damien Johnson and Scott A Shoffer pleaded guilty in July to the April 1998 killing. Sentences run consecutively to current terms. Johnson already serves 18 years for attempted bank robbery and firearm use, Shoffer 33 months for bank robbery. Smothers, 30, was serving a 30 year term for abducting a teenage girl in Wisconsin in 1996.
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Leavenworth
U.S. Penitentiary
Damien Johnson
Scott A. Shoffer
Joseph Glenn Smothers
Thomas van Bebber
Johnson
Shoffer
Smothers
Wisconsin
Kansas tourism director Claudia Larkin resigns
TOPEKA AP Claudia Larkin resigns as director of the travel and tourism development division effective December 20 to join private industry. She led the agency for under two years and helped create six alliances to market Kansas to niche audiences including western frontier aviation natural attractions hunting and fishing agriculture and the arts. Per capita spending rose from 276 in 1998 to 345 in 1999 with 2000 figures pending.
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Topeka
Kansas
Claudia Larkin
Larkin
Diences
Claudia
Jean Barbee
Travel Industry Association of Kansas
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Lanham
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Garden City
Santa Claus
Commerce Bank
Pishny Financial Services
L.C
Enslow Financial Strategies, Inc
E. Fulton Terrace
Virginia Enslow
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Multi-Financial Scurities Corp
SEC
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Garden City Chamber
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Julton & Flemin
Wharton
America
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Hyatt
Hyatt Regency
Popular
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Hyatt Corp
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