Santa to visit Finney County Library Monday
Santa Claus will be at the Finney County Library on 605 E. Walnut at 10 a.m. Monday in Dorothy's Children Library. He will read a story listen to children's Christmas wishes and hand out candy and small gifts. Pictures will be available. Library staff will perform a puppet show of A Christmas Surprise.
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Garden City High School Class of 1976 seeks reunion info
Garden City High School class of 1976 looks for reunion details for the 30th anniversary set for Sept 12. Call Sandy Mott at 620-344-0133 or Tammy Johnson at 276-8846 with information on classmates.
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Garden City
Sandy Mott
Tammy Johnson
Alleged wheelchair scheme tied to Medicare fraud in KC
Kansas City area doctors Amatair McAllister and Ambrose Wotorson face charges along with six medical supply business owners for allegedly defrauding Medicare of more than 2.3 million dollars by billing for costly motorized wheelchairs for patients who did not need or receive them. Authorities issued arrest warrants for the other four suspects. McAllister and Wotorson were arrested and released on bond.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Godwin Iloka
Lee’s Summit
Raphael Igbokwe
Kennedy Igbokwe
Roland Edo
U.S
Igbokwe Brothers
Edomobi
Wotorson
McAllister
Harvey County voters approve destination casino backing
Harvey County residents vote by mail on a $300 million destination casino. Ballot count shows 6,408 to 6,030 with counties including Harvey, Marion and Sumner backing the measure as the Iowa Tribe seeks locations beyond suburban Wichita. opponents say insufficient time to organize.
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Newton
Harvey County
Marion
Sumner
Iowa Tribe of Kansas
Ann
Nebraska
Wichita
Ibe
Sedgwick County
Harvey Count
Joyce Truskett
Creekstone Farms to ship first exports to Japan this weekend
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef plans its first export shipments to Japan this weekend after years of halted trade due to mad cow testing disputes. The Arkansas City plant will send six 34,000 pound containers, with two million pounds already sold, arriving in Tokyo around January 2.
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Japan
Arkansas City
Kansas
Agriculture Department
John Stewart
Creekstone
Stewart
U.S
Washington State
Canada
Tokyo
Department of Agriculture
Rich Swearingen
Cials
Oakland
Calif
Swearingen
Eighth graders explore future careers at Finney County fair
Eighth graders from Abe Hubert and Kenneth Henderson Middle Schools visited Garden City Community College for the Finney County Eighth Grade Career Fair. Sessions covered cosme tology, law, real estate, marketing, engineering, and health, with students noting potential earnings and paths.
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Abe Hubert
Viviana Garcia
Ana Brito
Garden City Community College
Finney County
Garden City
Community College
GCCC
Martha Hernandez
Tiffany Hurley
Thad
Esteban Ibarra
Ibarra
Todd Berry
Kenneth Henderson
Finney County to Review Budget Transfers Monday
Finney County commission will review budgets and propose 200000 in year end transfers at Monday meeting. Transfers include 125000 moved from 2005 to 2006 for an ambulance purchase and 50000 for maintenance upgrades plus 25000 for voting equipment and a copy machine for the County Clerk.
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Finney County
Groups urge state to adopt renewable energy standard in Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau and Sierra Club pushed the Legislature to require utility companies to invest in wind and other renewables. They argued Kansas lags behind. utility firms prefer market forces, and limited transmission hinders wind power adoption. Sen. Janis Lee supported an RPS. Senate leader Jay Emler voiced doubt about mandate viability and funding.
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Hns
Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau
The
Sierra Club
Joint Committee On Energy
States
District of Columbia
Terry Holdren
Farm Bureau
Holdren
Dave Holthaus
Kansas Electric Cooperatives
Janis Lee
Kensington
Lee
Bill Griffith
Leavenworth
Senate Utilities
Jay Emler
Emler
Supreme Court upholds man’s four murder convictions
The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously affirmed Cornelius Devon Oliver’s four first degree murder convictions and life sentences for the December 2000 Wichita duplex killings. He faces 150 years without parole after consecutive terms. The ruling upheld the judge’s limit on expert testimony about his alleged mental disorders and a confession he gave to police.
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Topeka
Cornelius Devon Oliver
Wichita
Kansas Supreme Court
Oliver
Raeshawnda Wheaton
Wheaton
Odessa Ford
Ford
Quincy Williams
Jermaine Levy
Williams
Levy
Joseph Bribiescu
Supreme Court
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Gary Martinez
Connie Hoffman
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Finney County Commission
Carol Beier