Movie Marathon for Greensburg Tornado Relief Fund
GCCC hosts a Friday night film marathon at the Dennis Perryman Athletic Complex to aid the Greensburg Tornado Relief Fund. G rated films for kids and teen selections run from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., with beanbags and pillows encouraged. Tickets cost 10 dollars and benefit the Greensburg fund. information available from Brittany Barrett at 276 8298.
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Garden City Community College
GCCC
Dennis Perryman
Greensburg
Brittany Barrett
Rockin All Through the Year Dance Recital Set
Dance School Steps hosts a 2 p.m. Saturday recital at Clifford Hope Auditorium Garden City High School 1412 N Main St. The fifth annual event is free to the public. Steps also hosts auditions for Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker on June 14 contact 271-0343.
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Steps Dance School
Clifford Hope
Garden City High School
N. Main St
N. Third St
Cemetery crews to clear Memorial Day decorations
Garden City's cemetery department will start cleanup at Valley View Cemetery and Sunset Memorial Gardens on Monday. Items left on foundations or graves will be removed, and misplaced plantings will be cleared. Plants may only be beside monuments if space allows, with no permanent plantings at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Call 276-1220 for more information.
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Garden City
Valley View Cemetery
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Isolation and Community on the High Plains Exhibit opens
The Stauth Memorial Museum in Montezuma will host a documentary photography show by Stacy Sparks titled Isolation and Community on the High Plains. Sparks, a journalism and photography teacher at Southwestern College, created the collection during 2002 to 2003 to chronicle life in southwest Kansas. The museum hours vary Tuesday through Saturday and Sunday, admission is free with donations welcome, and tours can be arranged by calling (620) 846-2527.
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Stauth Memorial Museum
Montezuma
High Plains
Stacy Sparks
Sparks
Southwestern College
Winfield
St. Mary of the Plains College
Dodge City Community College
Kansas
Grant Writing Workshop Planned at Garden City CC
A grant writing workshop is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on June 12 at Garden City Community College in the Student and Community Service Center. The $25 registration includes a box lunch, and the deadline is June 12. For details call 271-9484.
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Garden City Community College
Campus Drive
Suspect arrested in teen abduction slaying case
Overland Park police say Edwin R. Hall 26 was arrested after surveillance linked him to the abduction of 18 year old Kelsey Smith at a Target in Kansas City suburb and the discovery of her body in a wooded area near Grandview Missouri. Hall faces premeditated first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping charges. Authorities note no evidence the two knew each other and say more than 500 tips were received during the investigation.
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Overland Park
Edwin R. Hall
John Douglass
Kelsey Smith
Kansas City
Douglass
Hall
Smith
Phill Kline
Johnson County
Kan
Kansas
Grandview
Target
Lake
Greg Smith
Kimberly Kincade
Kelsey
Kincade
Millions authorized in tornado relief for Greensburg
Governor Kathleen Sebelius and legislative leaders approved a 7.5 million installment of a 32 million relief package for Greensburg and six Kiowa County towns. Five million funds cleanup and infrastructure, 2.5 million backs a new Department of Revenue program aiding Kiowa County rebuilds including Kiowa County Memorial Hospital and Iroquois Center.
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Topeka
Greensburg
Kathleen Sebelius
Kiowa County
Department of Revenue
Kiowa County Memorial Hospital
Iroquois Center
Sebelius
State Finance Council
House
Dennis McKinney
Kansas
Scott Brown
Brown
Olathe approves bioscience center deal for 91 acres
The Olathe City Council approved a 150 million plan to build a bioscience complex with a satellite campus by Kansas State University and a business park by the Kansas Bioscience Authority. The project aims to enroll up to 3000 students and create about 3000 high paying jobs, with initial focus on biofuel and animal health and potential expansion to food safety.
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Olathe
Kansas State University
Kansas Bioscience Authority
Kansas City
Bioscience Authority
Kansas State
Clay Blair
Clathe
Blair
Bob Krause
MidAmerica Nazarene University
Iraqi murder suspect charged with false gun purchase claims
Mohammed Ziboon, an Iraqi citizen wanted for murder in Iraq, is charged with two counts of making false statements to purchase firearms after ATF records show he bought two .45 caliber handguns at a Wichita pawn shop while denying indictments and claiming U.S. citizenship. He gave conflicting statements about his role at a store, gun ownership, and his immigration date during interviews.
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Wichita
Iraq
U.S
Eric Melgren
Mohammed Ziboon
Ameer Mahdy Jalowb
Mohammed Saad Zeboon Hassan Alagabi
ATF
Melgren
Ziboon
Mars Mart
Ager
Raheem al Shemer
Hussein al Ganen
Syria
United States
Kansas Agencies Expand Effort to Block Tobacco Sales to Minors
Kansas state agencies launched a $412000 program through July 1, 2008, adding five agents and a Denver firm to perform 5000 random checks of convenience stores to prevent sales of tobacco to minors. Revenue and SRS officials warned ongoing noncompliance could jeopardize federal anti tobacco dollars.
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Topeka
Kansas
Denver
Department of Revenue
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Joan Wagnon
SRS
BARS
Wagnon
Educat
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