Winds close school in Scott City after 50 mph gusts
High winds prompted the USD 466 board to dismiss 385 Scott City Elementary students at 11 15 a m due to a roof safety concern while the building remains supported by jacks. The policy requires moving students to a safe area when winds top 35 mph and dismissing if sustained. District officials note two failed bond attempts hinder a new elementary school.
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Scott City
USD 466 Board of Education
Ken Long
Long
First baby of 1986 born at St Catherine Hospital
Anthony Daniel Bennett, born New Year’s Day at 4:52 p.m. at St Catherine Hospital to Robert and Viola Bennett, 1521 Harvest, weighs 6 pounds 13 ounces. He is the first child born there in 1986, receiving a cabbage patch doll and a $100 savings bond from the hospital auxiliary. Other New Year births and annual hospital totals follow.
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Anthony Daniel Bennett
Robert
Viola Bennett
St. Catherine Hospital
Anthony Daniel
Rolla baby born during New Year's Eve game
Tammy Johnson went into labor at 10 30 p.m. during a Trivial Pursuit game at a Rolla farm. She and her husband drove 35 miles to Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, where Nathan Allen Johnson, 7 pounds, was born at 1 06 a.m. He is believed to be the first baby born in 1986 in Southwest Kansas.
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Ottawa
Kan
Ulysses
Thomas J. Scott
Cottonwood Falls
Donna L. DeBrabender
Lenexa
Scott
Rolla
Wayne
Kansas
Pact to end hostage crisis in West Virginia prison
Authorities announced a negotiated end to the West Virginia Penitentiary hostage crisis with 13 captives to be freed over 24 hours. The deal includes two release times, a face to face meeting with Governor Moore, protections against reprisals, and access to media statements. One inmate was killed in the uprising that began Wednesday evening as inmates protested conditions.
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Moundsville
W.va
West Virginia
John Price
Price
Pilot lands in farm field after fuel run dry near Garden City
Wichita businessman Bob White, a 40 year old cross country student pilot, diverted to a farm field eight miles northeast of Garden City when his single engine Cessna Aerobat ran out of fuel at 11 30 a m He notified Garden City Airport and with help from airport staff and National Weather Service personnel taxied to a dirt road before taking off again for Garden City and then Wichita No injuries or damage were reported and winds were NW at 22 mph gusting to 35 mph
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Wichita
Garden City
Bob White
Cliff Algrim Farm
White
Garden City Municipal
Fred Robinson
Robinson
Leon Dawson
Butch Kelch
Ed Milburn
National Weather Service
Decision Technology
Sunflower Electric defaults on 22 million loan in Kansas
Sunflower Electric Cooperative failed to pay 22 million owed on a federally backed loan. The eight utilities group seeks talks with creditors to stave off bankruptcy. REA backs 352 million loan for Holcomb plant. plan to bail out collapsed. Directors given 30 days to propose solution. Cooperative lacks 25 million yearly revenues relative to obligations and will seek 7 million in annual concessions. No rate increase planned.
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Great Bend, Kan
Sunflower Electric Cooperative
Kansas
Earl Watkins
Great
the Rural Electrification Administration
Sunflower
Holcomb
Watkins
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp
Kansas Corporation Commission
REA
Red lights to be added at bypass intersection
Kansas officials plan flashing red lights on stop signs at the US 50 bypass and K156 intersection on the city edge. Traffic counts show 4100 bypass and 2360 K156 vehicles daily. speed on the bypass will drop to 45 mph for 800 feet each side. A fatal crash at the site heightened safety concerns.
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Kansas Department of Transportation
Bureau of Traffic Engineers
KDOT
Elvin Crockett
Garden City
Garden City Area
US 50
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