Garden City Jazz Band and Show Choir Schedule Reminders
Garden City High School jazz band performs Saturday at noon in Stevens Park with a rain alternative to Clifford Hope Auditorium. Paul White directs. The Modern Show Choir offers a Sunday 7 p.m. benefit concert in Clifford Hope Auditorium with free will donations. Proceeds aid travel for a May 30 to June 2 cruise. Lance Cpl. Bryan M. Lampe of Garden City completed the Basic Assault Amphibian Vehicle Crewman's Course at Camp Pendleton.
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Garden City High School
Stevens Park
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Paul White
Garden City High School Modern Show Choir
Marine Corps
Bryan M. Lampe
Christine Lampe
Garden City
Marine Corps Base
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Lampe
Derby soldier buried with military honors
Sgt. Jamie Maugans 27 and Staff Sgt. Justin Galewski were among four soldiers killed April 15 near Kandahar as they disposed of Soviet era rockets. More than 350 mourners filed past Maugans’ casket in Derby and he was buried with full military honors. In another incident, Lyle L. Eslick 53 of Mullinville died when his pickup struck a freight train on U S 54 in Ford County after reportedly failing to look up at unprotected tracks.
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DERBY
Afghanistan
Jamie Maugans
Maugans
Kansan
Justin Galewski
Olathe
Kandahar
Kingsdown
Kansas
U.S. 54
Ford County
Kansas Highway Patrol
Lyle L. Eslick
Mullinville
Eslick
Man convicted of killing K.C. woman
Andrew Jackson, 43, was found guilty of first degree murder, conspiracy, and kidnapping in the June death of Delesha Williams, 29, a Kansas City Missouri woman. Williams was beaten, stabbed, and strangled in her home and later run over in a Kansas City Kansas wooded area. Jackson faces life in prison with possible parole in 50 years. Co-defendant Bovi Combs, 30, was convicted of the same charges last month. Shecora D. Clanton, 22, also faces charges.
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Kansas City
Kan
Andrew Jackson
Delesha Williams
Williams
Jackson
Bovi Combs
Shecora D. Clanton
Telegram Corrects Errors Policy Contact Numbers
The Garden City Telegram states its policy to correct errors and provides two contact numbers. Readers are urged to report mistakes by phone at 275 8500 and road conditions via the hotline 1 800 585 7623.
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Garden City
Garden City Faces Tough Hire for Journeyman Linemen
Garden City Electric Dept struggles to hire certified journeyman linemen as pay lags behind national rates. The city relies on an apprentice program begun in 1996 to train eight to ten journeymen, with current enrollments growing to six to eight. The program, run with Wheatland Electric, includes 8000 hours of hands on training and 545 hours of instruction in safety and technical skills.
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Garden City Electric Department
Garden City Human Resources
Jim Berry
Electric Department
Cliff Sonnenberg
Sonnenberg
California
Wheatlands
Berry
U.S. Department of Labor
Labor Department
Wheatland Electric Co-op
Wheatland Electric
Scott City
Thornburgh presses redistricting deadline worries
Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh warned that stalled congressional redistricting could disrupt the Kansas primary calendar. Negotiators failed to meet to draft a final plan, risking shifts that could push back filing deadlines and complicate Aug. 6 primaries. Thornburgh noted possible calendar changes if lawsuits challenge the plan.
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Topeka
Ron Thornburgh
House
Kansas
Lawrence
Dennis Moore
Thornburgh
Legislative
State Board of Education
Congressional
Board of
Woman indicted in fraud case in three states
Deborah Lorraine Law 47, former president of a Great Bend mortgage firm, indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita on two counts of wire fraud and one of mail fraud. She is married to Barton County Community College President Weldon Law, who announced plans to resign in June to head Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield Illinois.
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Wichita
Great Bend
Deborah Lorraine Law
Law
Barton County Community College
Weldon Law
Lincoln Land Community College
Springfield
October trial set in civil suit against pharmacist
The first of hundreds of lawsuits against Kansas City pharmacist Robert R. Courtney and two drug makers is set to begin Oct 7. Georgia Hayes, who has ovarian cancer, claims Courtney diluted drugs and that Lilly and Bristol-Myers knew or should have known but failed to act. The Jackson County judge scheduled the trial, expected to last two to three weeks, as a potential indicator for the remaining cases. Courtney faces 17.5 to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to 20 federal charges.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Robert R. Courtney
Georgia Hayes
Courtney
Eli Lilly & Co
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jackson County
Lee Wells
Leavenworth
Kan
Lilly
Bristol-Myers
Grant Davis
Hayes
Davis
Kansas gambling bill faces grim Senate action delay
Kansas lawmakers debate a House passed plan to allow slot machines at five pari mutuel tracks and one at-large site. Senate committee amendments cut the at-large site and reduced operators' shares, shifting funds to horse and dog owners and to southeast Kansas development. Lawmakers weigh revenue needs against gambling concerns amid tribal casino relocation talk in Wyandotte County.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
John Vratil
Leawood
Vratil
Chris Steineger
Ckansas City
Steineger
Sedgwick County
Les Donovan
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