Garbage Santas Bring Christmas Cheer to Flagstaff
In Flagstaff Arizona city workers David Lopez and Mike Vincent transform broken toys and clothes into gifts each Christmas Eve. Vincent dons a Santa suit and visits needy families hotel travelers and local motels with toys and food. They fund this through overtime and own earnings spending about $600 annually. They emphasize the joy of giving and the impact on families as proof of their heart led effort.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
David Lopez
Mike Vincent
Lopez
Vincent
Santa Claus
Resignation of Finney County Undersheriff Michel
Finney County Undersheriff Dennis Michel submitted his resignation on Tuesday with effect January 15. Sheriff Grover Craig said Michel offered no reasons and hinted at dissatisfaction with his leadership. Chief Jerald Vaughn noted no arrangements for Michel to join Garden City or other agencies, and filling the vacancy was not determined.
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Finney County
Dennis Michel
Michel
Grover Craig
Craig
Garden City
Jerald Vaughn
Vaughn
Students Return to Class January 5 in Garden City
Garden City district schools will resume Monday January 5 according to school superintendent Horace Good. Administrative offices close for the rest of the Christmas week and reopen Monday. The Garden City school board will meet at 7 30 p.m. Monday January 5.
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Garden City
Horace Good
1981 Kansas wheat crop may match record yield
The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service forecast that the 1981 winter wheat crop could equal the 420 million bushels record set in 1980. The prediction assumes normal weather and notes 14 million acres planted, up 8 percent from 1979, with an average yield of about 30 bushels per acre. Nationally, 63.9 million acres are seeded with a predicted yield of 30.9 bushels per acre and 1.98 billion bushels total.
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Topeka
Kan
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Kansas
South-Central
North-Central
Southwest
Central
West-Central
Northwest District
U.S
Bus overturns on I-70 injures 25 near K C
A Trailways bus overturned on Interstate 70 during rush hour in Kansas City Kansas. Police said 25 passengers were taken to area hospitals and that the crash blocked one eastbound and one westbound lane on the four lane road.
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Kansas City
Kan
Trailways
Grandpa and Grandma Charged Over LSD Trafficking
In Columbus Ohio an elderly couple nicknamed Grandpa and Grandma were charged with aggravated trafficking after warrants were issued for Luther Beaver and Audrey Beaver. Deputies say the 73 and 62 year old pair sold LSD to supplement Social Security and food stamps, with a street value of about 10000 dollars and LSD sold at 3 dollars per hit. Seven pounds of marijuana were seized as part of the investigation.
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Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County
Luther Beaver
Audrey
Larry Farley
Boston heroin ring led by mother daughter and grandmother
A Suffolk County Superior Court judge sentenced a Boston area heroin ring case involving Marjorie Mayfield 46 of Shrewsbury Mary Jeanneau 68 and Carla Vasquez 18. Mayfield received 10 to 12 years for heroin possession with 1254 packets found at arrest. Jeanneau earned a suspended 3 to 5 year term with probation. Vasquez got a suspended two year sentence and two years probation for heroin delivery and gun possession.
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Boston
Suffolk County Superior Court
Marjorie Mayfield
Shrewsbury
Vincent Brogna
Carla Vasquez
New year Jesus birth theory reshapes Griffith show
Griffith Observatory shifts its annual Christmas planetarium to reflect new evidence on Jesus birth dating. John Mosley notes the change follows Dr. Ernest Martin’s claim Jesus was born around 3 B.C. and Herod died in 1 B.C., aligning celestial events with two Jupiter Venus conjunctions and Regulus in Leo. The observatory joins Athens Muskegon and Redding in adopting the revised chronology.
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Laurinda Keys
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Griffith Observatory
Griffith
Observatory
John Mosley
Mosley
Athens
Greece
Muskegon
Mich
Redding
Calif
Jesus
Bethlehem
Rome
Christ
Herod
Planetarium
B.C
Jupiter
Saturn
Venus
Leo
Mosely
Ernest Martin
Biblical Research Foundation
Pasadena
Martin
Jerusalem
Earth
Virgo
Persia
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Westinghouse
Chicago
Aron Dick
John Meschke
E. Kansas
Nelda Woodard
Santa
LeRoy Wentling
E. Fulton
Beavers
Beaver
Farley
Jeanneau
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