Exploration Day gives Holcomb students glimpse of college life
Holcomb High School junior Ian Rupp attended Garden City Community College Exploration Day with 389 other juniors and seniors from 17 schools. He narrowed his criminal justice interest to K9 units after a police demonstration and plans to study at GCCC for two years before possibly transferring to Adams State University in Colorado.
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Garden City Community College
Alisha Guebara
Lesley Gutierrez
GCCC
Bee Gees
Gutierrez
Garden City High School
Ian Rupp
Rupp
Holcomb High School
Garden City
Adams State University
Alamosa
Colo
Southwest Kansas
Colorado
John Deere
Kenzie Becker
FBI Agent in Petraeus Scandal Linked to Tampa Case
FBI Special Agent Frederick Humphries II played a role in stopping a Los Angeles Airport attack at the start of 2000 and later fatally shot a knife threat at MacDill Air Force Base in 2010. He is now tied to the Petraeus resignation through the emails between Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley.
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Tampa
Fla
FBI
Frederick Humphries II
Los Angeles International
MacDill Air Force Base
Humphries
CIA
David Petraeus
Petraeus
Paula Broadwell
Jill Kelley
Science takes back seat in elementary schools
TOPEKA AP Elementary schools across Kansas and four neighboring states have sharply cut science instruction as teachers chase higher math and reading performance. George Griffith surveyed 900 plus teachers in Kansas Colorado Missouri Oklahoma and Nebraska for a doctoral study and found up to one in five report science grades on report cards.
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Topeka
Kansas
George Griffith
Trego
Kansas Board of Education
Colorado
Missouri
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Obama presses GOP on taxing rich to avert fiscal cliff
President Obama urged Republicans to let taxes rise on the wealthiest to ease the fiscal cliff threat and demonstrate flexibility. He welcomed bipartisan talk but warned against harming the economy, while Boehner called for cooperation and warned against raising rates. Dow dipped as markets gauged chances of a deal.
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Obama
Washington
Barack Obama
Congressional Republicans
House
John Boehner
Ohio
White House
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Kentucky
Senate
Ociated Press
Schwieterman Inc
Seeeere
Chicago
Annie's
Garden City Co-op
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