Tragedy unites two towns over a girl’s cancer fight
Jamie Woods of Wapello Iowa and his daughter Shelby five face a brain tumor diagnosis with surgery in April and ongoing chemotherapy. Family and communities in Garden City Scott City and local banks establish the Shelby Woods Fund to help with medical costs. A balloon prayer gesture from Garden Valley Church reaches Shelby in Iowa, seen as a hopeful sign.
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Jamie Woods
Shelby Woods
Garden City
Scott City
Wapello
Iowa
Chem-Ii
Shelby
Sue Woods
Scott County Sheriff’s Office
Jamie
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Sue
Woods
Dennis Woods
Betty
Jim Lopez
Betty Loper
Governor vetoes funding for a dozen items in budget
In Topeka Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoed about twelve line items in Kansas budget including 200000 for a new white collar crime unit and 624005 for renovating the Kansas Bureau of Investigation lab in Great Bend. Attorney General Phill Kline objects, saying fights crime.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
Great Bend
Sebelius
Phill Kline
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kline
Great Bend Lab
Kansas
KBI
Securities Commissioner
Bank
Insurance
Lynn Jenkins
Nicole Corcoran
Jenkins
Luminarias marked the Relay for Life at Garden City High
The Garden City High School track hosted the Relay for Life timed to begin at 7 p.m. with 12 hours of walking. Kris Cossman and dancers kept luminarias upright against wind as 35 teams joined to honor survivors and the fallen. About 100 survivors attended the reception, and organizers reported around $40,000 raised so far with proceeds to come.
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Memorial Stadium
Finney County Relay For Life
American Cancer Society
Garden City
Cossman
Dixie Beery
Hanna
Carr
Roni Knight
SBC and union resume talks as four day strike continues
SBC Communications and the Communications Workers of America resumed bargaining in Chicago New Haven and Pleasanton after a day of picketing in 13 states. About 100000 SBC workers are represented by the union and Kerry urged SBC to stop using lower paid contract workers while pressuring higher health care costs.
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San Antonio
SBC Communications Inc
SBC
Communications Workers of America
Chicago
New Haven
Conn
Pleasanton
Calif
CWA
Candice Johnson
Austin
Texas
Johnson
Walt Sharp
Garden City
Seventh Street
Detroit
Los Angeles
Sharp
John Kerry
Edward Whitacre
Kerry
Senate Majority Leader Lana Oleen Not Seeking Re Election
TOPEKA Kansas Senate Majority Leader Lana Oleen of Manhattan announced she will not seek re election this year. The move comes as another GOP leader retires in the waning days of the session. Oleen cites redirecting her energy and notes her long tenure since 1988. Governor Kathleen Sebelius praised her leadership and dedication to education.
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Senate
Topeka
Lana Oleen
Oleen
Manhattan
Dave Kerr
Hutchinson
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
GOP
Kathleen Sebelius
Lana
Sebelius
Bill Reardon
Reardon
Kansas City
House
Clinton urges global outlook to curb partisanship
Former President Bill Clinton told about 12 000 at the University of Kansas that American politics must shed partisanship and foreign policy must adopt a broader global outlook. He urged cooperation, highlighted a world with shared humanity, and urged joining international groups and treaties while avoiding neocolonial aims.
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Kansas
Bob Dole
Dole Institute of Politics
Clinton
Bush
Iraq
United States
Dole
America
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington
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Finney County
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