Garden City man found dead. homicide investigation opened
Police report an elderly man was found dead in a vacant Garden City home at 622 N 10th St. The skeletal remains were sent to a forensics center for autopsy with a Wednesday morning scheduled. Detectives continue to collect evidence as the case remains open pending results.
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Garden City
Mike Utz
10Th St
Sedgwick County Regional Forensics Center
Wichita
Utz
Police Department
W. Mary St
Dillons West
Buffalo Jones Ave
DUI checklane nets no arrests in Finney County
A Saturday DUI sobriety checklane in the 1500 block of Kansas Avenue yielded no driving under the influence arrests. Twelve deputies and highway patrol troopers oversaw 226 vehicles, issuing two open container citations and seven child restraint or belt warnings as part of the Impaired Driving Enforcement Program.
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Finney County
Kevin ‘Bascue
Kansas Avenue
Aas Highway Patrol
Kansas Department Ofansportation
Bureau of Safety
Adoption debate in Kansas weighs gay parents and policy
In Wichita, Bill Dunn and his partner Shaun Morse fostered three boys from California and aim to raise tolerant, happy children. Lawmakers consider reforming foster care adoption rules to favor homes with a mother and father, while critics argue such limits harm children and that gay couples can provide loving homes.
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Topeka
Bill Dunn
Nathan
Haden
Henry
California
Wichita
Dunn
Shaun Morse
Conserva
Tive
Steve Huebert
Huebert
R-Valley Center
Kansas
SRS
Matt Foreman
National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Foreman
Garden City Farmer's Market Thrives at Westlake Lot Summer
Garden City shoppers flock to the fourth year farmer's market at Westlake Ace Hardware, 1210 Fleming St, Saturdays 7 a.m. to noon through Sept. 24. Vendors offer handmade jewelry pottery crafts and fresh produce while bees from Great Bend provide honey from Watson Nichols. Ramona McCollum sells pottery with support from husband Brian, a Garden City Community College instructor. Jan Ramirez of the Farm Service Agency notes a festive social atmosphere and rising produce varieties. The Garden City USDA Service Center sponsors the free market. vendors supply their own essentials and must remove items by noon.
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Michael Roth
Garden City
Westlake Ace Hardware
Fleming St
Fleming and
Harding Streets
Louis Androsek
Watson Nichols
Androsek
Nichols
Great Bend
Ramona McCollum
Brian McCollum
Garden City Community College
McCollum
Jan Ramirez
Farm Service Agency
Usda Service Center
Evolution critic Niall Shanks joins Wichita State University
AP reports Niall Shanks, known for opposing intelligent design and authoring God the Devil and Darwin, has taken a professorship at Wichita State University focusing on the history and philosophy of evolution. Shanks rose to prominence at East Tennessee State University after debating ID proponents and tracing evolution debates back to the 1925 Scopes trial and 1996 Tennessee schooling battles. Behe of Darwin's Black Box remains a critic of some Shanks tactics, having debated him previously.
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Wichita
East Tennessee State University
Niall Shanks
Kansas
Shanks
Wichita State University
Tennessee
Duane Gish
el Cajon
Institute For Creation Research
Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
John Scopes
Jeff Gold
East
Michael J. Behe
Behe
Darwin
Kansas eyes wind power grid upgrades and new authority
Kansas lawmakers created the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority to plan finance develop and maintain lines needed to move wind energy from western farms to eastern markets. Officials say more transmission capacity is required for expansion while debates focus on who pays and the role of the new agency.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Kansas Electric Transmission Authority
Tom Sloan
R-Lawrence
Gray County
Montezuma
Elk River
Butler County
Kathleen Sebelius
Donna Johnson
Pinnacle Technologies
Western Kansas
David Springe
Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board
Springe
House
Senate
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