Fiesta celebrates Cinco de Mayo with community events
Garden City residents Sidni and Andy Musick praise Cinco de Mayo as multicultural. GCHS junior Elizabeth Gomez crowned Cinco de Mayo Queen. Theo Musick drums in the parade as about 200 attendees enjoy a slate of dances and speeches. Community leaders hope more participants and food booths next year.
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Garden City
Garden City High School
Andy Musick
Musick
Theo Musick
Montanez
Sandy Sumaya
Woman lives for poetry in quiet Kansas town
A solitary writer in Goodland Kansas devoted to poetry and journals describes her life. She keeps seven file cabinets of poems and stories, daily journals, and a 450 page self-published poetry collection. She reads by oil lamp and imagines distant places, while pursuing truth in journalism and art.
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Thoreau
Walden
Mathews
Dead Sea
George Mathews Sr
Ther
University of Kansas
Goodland Daily News
Scott City News Chronicle
Storms kill at least 32 across three states and scourge the South
Storms unleashed tornadoes in Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska with wrecked homes and outages. Hail pounded parts of South Dakota while 24,000 Louisville customers lost power. Jackson Tennessee faced a state of emergency as eleven injured flocked to hospital. Kansas reported eighty damaged or destroyed homes in Crawford County amid disaster declarations.
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Nebraska
Ohio
Tennessee
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Madison County
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Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jan Boud
Boud
Six die in southeast Kansas storms
Tornadoes killed six people in southeast Kansas with three deaths in Crawford County, including Franklin and rural areas east of Girard, and three in Cherokee County. One more death occurred in Wyandotte County as Gov. Sebelius declared disaster area status for six counties including Labette Neosho Miami and Leavenworth. Edson Bedene cited 14 miles of damage and about 80 homes damaged or destroyed in the region.
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Franklin
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Leavenworth
Kansas City
Girard
Edson Bedene
Third suspect Pham stands trial for murder in Liberal
Pham faces a six day trial for murder as jurors review 65 names with 12 remaining to decide his fate while the Nguyen brothers Giang and Nam are to have sentencing hearings next month. Several family members from the victim's circle work at the IBP plant and National Beef ties are noted.
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Giang Nguyen
Thai Nguyen
Hong Nguyen
Thang Nguyen
Ann Nguyen
Pham
Giang
Nam
Nguyen
Lib
Eral
Nam Nguyen
IBP
Nguyen Brothers
National Beef
Liberal
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