Easton flood damages 70 homes as Stranger Creek rises
Easton mayor and his wife join nearly 70 families in Leavenworth County as Stranger Creek overflows causing widespread damage in nearby Jackson Atchison and Jefferson counties. Gov declares state of emergency. Interstate 70 floods force closure east of Lawrence with reopening phased overnight.
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Easton
Leavenworth County
Gene Butterfield
Cathy
Stranger Creek
Jackson
Atchison
Jefferson
Gary Sherrer
Leavenworth
Kansas River
de Soto
Lawrence
Bonner Springs
Lisa Callahan
Kansas Turnpike
Two Men Sentenced in Meth Conspiracy
Salvador Mendez Zamora and Heraclio Gaona Sepulveda, both of Kansas City Missouri, were sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Kansas Iowa and Nebraska. Mendez Zamora received life without parole while Gaona Sepulveda got 22 years with no parole plus five years supervised release.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
U.S
Jim Flory
Salvador Mendez-Zamora
Heraclio Gaona-Sepulveda
Flory
Mendez-Zamora
Two men indicted on counterfeiting charges in Kansas
A suburban Kansas City man, Joseph S. Sanders of Olathe, was indicted for making counterfeit cash on an offset press. Rayford E. Reed Jr. of Gardner joined in a single count of delivering and receiving about $150,000 in counterfeit money with intent to pass it. Sanders faces two additional counts for counterfeit $20 and $50 bills, while Reed faces one count for possessing counterfeit money to defraud.
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Topeka
Kansas City
Joseph S. Sanders
Olathe
Sanders
Rayford E. Reed, Jr
Gardner
Reed
Man dies after grain bin fall on family farm
LEVANT AP A Colby man JR Mattson 22 died from head injuries after falling inside a 20 foot grain bin while cleaning it on June 14. He was treated at Citizens Medical Center Colby and airlifted to Swedish Medical Center Englewood Colorado.
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Levant
Colby
JR Mattson
Mattson
Citizens Medical Center
Swedish Medical Center
Englewood
Colo
Briarcliff Development Pulls Out Of Oz Project
OLATHE AP A development firm Briarcliff Development Co of Kansas City has withdrawn from a planned partnership with Oz Entertainment Co and a Hensel Phelps Construction Co subsidiary to develop the former Sunflower Army Ammunition plant near DeSoto. The project momentum claimed last February was halted by Johnson County Commission tie votes in November and March, leaving the venture in question.
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Olathe
Oz Entertainment Co
Sunflower Army
DeSoto
Briarcliff Development Co
Johnson County Commission
Briarcliff
Kansas City
Charles Garney
Hensel Phelps Construction Co
Poll shows growing economic divide in United States
A Pew Research poll finds the 1990s boom benefiting the upper middle class and wealthy while lower income Americans see little improvement. Overall satisfaction with direction dips to 43 percent. 52 percent dissatisfied. Public views on Bush, tax cuts, and refunds are mixed, with 44 percent believing a rich/poor divide exists.
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Washington
Andrew Kohut
Pew Research Center For the People & the Press
Archie Bunker star Carroll OConnor dies at 76
Culver City California publicist says Carroll OConnor known as Archie Bunker on All in the Family died of a heart attack at 76 after collapsing at home He remained active despite health issues and faced family tragedy including his son Hugh’s death in 1995 OConnor’s career spanned stage film and television and his Archie Bunker role defined a generation of TV comedy
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Culver City
Calif
Carroll O’connor
Archie Bunker
America
O’connor
Brotman Medical Center
Frank Tobin
Nancy
O'Connor
Hugh
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Restonic
Waterford
Iame
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