Letter from missing 11-year-old girl raises questions
FBI says letters postmarked Friday arrived from Oklahoma City after a Knoxville sighting. Father confirms girl, abducted by ex Baptist school principal William A Beith, claims she thinks she is in love. Beith charged with coercing a minor and transporting a minor across state lines. Sixth grader from Gary disappeared May 1 after an argument at a discount store.
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Merrillville, Ind
Oklahoma City
FBI
Knoxville
Tenn
Charles S. Porucznik
Merrillville
William A. Beith
Gary
Budget clash stalls gasoline tax increase plan
Legislators block a proposed July 1 gas tax rise to fund a $13.9 billion 10 year transportation program. The plan would raise $16.5 million next fiscal year while current wrap up sessions extend, with Republicans opposing the tax accelerator label.
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Senate
School finance bill raises base state aid by $50 per pupil
The measure boosts base state aid per pupil by 50 dollars to 3870 for 2001-02 as part of a package to fund special education at 85.3 percent of excess costs and expand a poor at risk 4 year old program. Senate OK'd 67 million in new schooling spending. House negotiators conceded a two year 20 mill property tax levy with exemption kept at 20,000.
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Senate
Graves
Tanner
House
Anthony Hensley
D-Topeka
Senate Education
Dwayne Umbarger
Hall
Ulysses
Dietz
Officials warn finance bill fails to cover districts needs
Garden City may rely more on its property tax funded local option budget as costs rise and state funding stagnates. Ulysses district maxes property tax at 25 percent and faces salary, staffing, and program pressures. District leaders say changes are needed soon amid a tight 2002 election year funding outlook.
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Hall
Garden City
Ulysses
Gasoline tops 2 dollar mark with gas prices rising
Gas prices push past $2 a gallon amid tight supplies and refining disruptions. Analysts warn prices could reach $3 if supply issues worsen, while consumers vent about high costs and pump rage across the Midwest and West. FT C report finds no oil industry collusion. OPEC may raise quotas later this year to offset earlier cuts.
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Adam Sieminski
Deutsche Banc
Alex Brown
Cedric Norwood
Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
U.S
Europe
Asia
Midwest
Tesco
Los Angeles
Wood River
Ill
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Saudi Arabia
Ali Naimi
CNBC
Wall Street Journal
Board weighs mentoring program coexistence at schools
The committee discussed adding a Youth Friends mentoring option alongside Big Brothers Big Sisters, sparking a dispute over overlap. Board members approved two half time technology mentors funded by a $60,000 state grant to help teachers integrate computers. A tour of Alta Brown and Florence Wilson schools highlighted major renovations and new classrooms before noting a closed session on negotiations.
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Kay Ermish
Garden City High School
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Charles Stones
Youth Friends
Bill Clement
Ermish
Pippenger
Tammy Herlan
Bernadine Sitts
Herlan
Steve Karlin
Karlin
Alta Brown
Florence Wilson
Jerry Bell
Axis Nightmare lands at Garden City airport amid WWII history
Garden City hosts a stop by the Axis Nightmare B-25 at GC airport, marking the city as a historic WWII pilot training site and halfway point between Springfield and Minneapolis. Local officials and aviation groups welcome about 50 members, with residents and students learning about the Doolittle Raid and WWII heroes.
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Vallejo
Springfield
Ill
Minneapolis
Garden City
America
Mike Sherman
EAA
AFA
Don Blackman
Flight
Carolyn Werner
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Eit
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Ste 31
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Wichita
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8Th Street
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