Man Arrested for Kidnapping and Battery
A Garden City man Miguel Alarcon-Marino aged 19 was arrested Saturday after allegedly attempting to kidnap his girlfriend Tanya Hernandez 16 and punching two bystanders who intervened. Police charged him with aggravated burglary kidnapping and three counts of battery and held him at Finney County Jail.
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Garden City
Mike Utz
Miguel Alarcon-Marino
Marvin Granado
Alarcon-Marino
Tanya Hernandez
E. U.S. Highway 50
Granado
Tonia Lightfoot
Shamus St
Utz
East Garden Village
East U.S. Highway 50
Finney County
Alarcon- Marino
Topeka recalls mayor candidate after past charge
Lee Glenn, a former mayoral candidate, plans a recall petition against newly elected Topeka mayor James McClinton over a 2002 domestic battery charge cited as grounds for unfitness. The charge was dismissed. McClinton has no domestic violence conviction. Glend calls the situation a fiasco alongside past mayoral turmoil including Doug Wright’s jail term.
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Topeka
Lee Glenn
James McClinton
Glenn
McClinton
Butch Felker
Doug Wright
Wright
KGS Maps Groundwater Levels in Southwest Kansas Wells
Kansas Geological Survey workers measured water depths in over 500 central and western Kansas wells during the January survey period. Rex Buchanan noted 85.95 feet at a Southwest Kansas Research Center well, with drops from 2002 and 2003 showing a roughly 2.5 foot decrease.
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Kansas Geological Survey
University of Kansas
Lakin
Garden City
KGS
Kansas
Rex Buchanan
Southwest Kansas Research Center
E. Mary St
Buchanan
Southwest
Hansen
Mary Street
Farmland Road
Kansas State University Southwest Research Extension Center
Cookie Kickoff Draws Girl Scouts to Garden City Event
About 100 girls and women from Holly, Syracuse, Tribune, Scott City and Garden City gathered at the Finnup Center for a Girl Scout Cookie Kickoff. They learned about Lee Richardson Zoo animals, played cookie games, and sampled the 2004 cookie assortment while a 14 year old from Syracuse won a munching contest by eating 14 of 20 cookies.
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Finnup Center
Holly
Colo
Syracuse
Tribune
Scott City
Garden City
Lee Richardson Zoo
Jamie Helton
McDonald’s
Helton
Bonnette
America
Janice Brown
Girl Scouts
Tumbleweed Council
Kansas
Brown
Flying T
Canada
Minnesota
Dakota Briton
Zoo
Margaret Meyers
Mary Lake
Kathy Sexson
Sexson
Kassie Baeza
Girl Scouts Cookie
Ness City girl survives West Nile after strokes
Nine year old Cara Keilman fell from a bike and developed repeated strokes. Diagnosed with West Nile virus after a spinal tap, she was airlifted to Children’s Mercy Hospital. Despite seizures and chemotherapy, she gradually regained speech, sight, and walking with family support.
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Ness City
Hns
Cara Keilman
Cara
Faye
Rosie Flax
Hays
Flax
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
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GCCC
Garden City Community College
Hank Hansen
Kgs.ku.edu
Magellan
Chris Bonnette
West Nile
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