Budget blues tackled in Knowledge at Noon roundup
Post-holiday budgeting program titled Knowledge at Noon will be held Thursday from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. at the Finney County Public Library 605 E. Walnut St. Catherine Hutchinson Margie Hubbard and Mary Beth Doty will share tips on saving on family expenses. No advance registration. free program with coffee and tea. For more information call Finney County Extension Office 272-3670.
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Catherine Hutchinson
Margie Hubbard
Mary Beth Doty
Finney County Public Library
Walnut St
Finney County Extension Office
Boeing plans employee meeting amid plant study
Boeing plans a mandatory Wichita defense plant meeting as officials study the facility’s future. U S Rep Mike Pompeo says a top Boeing official told him the firm will modify Air Force tankers in Washington state rather than Wichita. The Wichita Eagle notes employees were told to attend today’s meeting.
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Wichita
Boeing Co
Wichita Defense
Boeing
U.S
Mike Pompeo
Washington State
Wichita Eagle
Wounding of child at hotel ruled accidental
Topeka police ruled the New Year shooting of a 6 year old boy in a Holiday Inn Express room accidental. A 45 year old man faces two felony counts including criminal possession of a firearm and nine misdemeanor counts of child endangerment for the nine other children and four adults in the room.
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Topeka
Holiday Inn Express
Wibw-Tvv
CoBank Provides $1 Million Charity Gift After Wichita Merger
CoBank says it will donate $1 million to Wichita charities to mark its merger with U S AgBank. The three year gift includes $375,000 for health care programs via Project Access and Via Christi Health, $300,000 for hunger relief and housing aid, and $325,000 to United Way of the Plains and 10 other local groups. United Way administers the funds. The merger closed Sunday and the Wichita office will have more than 80 employees.
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Wichita
CoBank
U.S. AgBank
United States
Project Access
Via Christi Health
United Way of the Plains
United Way
US AgBank
Denver
Kansas City girl dies days after being hit by car
A 3-year-old girl from Kansas City Kansas, Celia Heredia-Portia, died from injuries after being struck by a vehicle near 2 a.m. Sunday as she ran across a busy street after her family returned home. Police continue to investigate the crash.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
Celia Heredia- Portia
West denied retrial in minor rape case garden city
A Garden City man, Lorenzo West, 28, had motions for a new trial and to overturn the jury verdict denied after convictions on 11 counts including rape against a minor under 14, criminal sodomy, and aggravated battery. Sentencing scheduled for Jan 30.
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Garden City
Lorenzo West
West
Christi Cott
Tamara Hicks
Hicks
Michael Quint
Quint
City to begin free Christmas tree pickup next week
Garden City will run a free curbside Christmas tree pickup from Monday through January 12. Trees must be out by 8 am on their scheduled day. flocked trees go to the landfill with a fee. Non uprooted items can also be dropped at Forest Park Lake Wildlife Habitat through January 13.
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Garden City
Garden City Street and Parks Department
Ashley Freburg
S. Raceway Road
Freburg
Deborah Brantley
Waste Connections
Brantley
Kansas Avenue
Main Street
Forest Park Lake Wildlife Habitat
Emerson and Johns Streets
Parks Department
Kansan prisons strain under tougher sentences and rising costs
Kansas officials debate balancing public safety with a swelling inmate population. With 8,635 men housed over capacity and projected bed shortages, officials discuss building more prisons, using county jails, or cutting recidivism. Proposals include expanding housing and treatment programs, diversions for minor offenders, and broader mental illness diversion efforts.
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Kansas
City
Kansas Corrections
Ray Roberts
Kansas Sentencing Commission
Roberts
Kansas City Star
Wyandotte
Jerome Gorman
Beagle captured at Lake Kanopolis after two months on the run
Yancy Trostle of Salina trapped the 15 pound beagle Buddy, once named Clay Boy, at Lake Kanopolis using a pork chop after a two month escape from a hunting trip. The dog had been seen roaming with deer and surviving near winter dangers. Deputies noted residents and rangers fed him while predators posed risks. Trostle plans to keep Buddy.
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Marquette
Kansas
Yancy Trostle
Salina
Clay Boy
Lake Kanopolis
The
Salina Journal
Trostle
Buddy
Park Rangers
South Carolina
Carson Mansfield
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Ayaag
Cott
Leslie Perez
Cindy West
WiWee
Public Works Department
Pat Colloton
Leawood
House
Senate Committee On Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Colloton
Johnson County District Attorney
Kansas Lake
Mansfield
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