Garden City man arrested for aggravated battery
Fernando Monjaras, 19, of Garden City, was arrested at 7:45 a.m. on aggravated battery and attempted injury to a pregnant woman. Rosalba Valles, 18, reported the assault during an argument after she traveled to Liberal for a parenting class with Monjaras, the father of the unborn child. She was treated for injuries and released from the hospital.
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Garden City
Mike Utz
Fernando Monjaras
Maple St
Utz
Rosalba Valles
Monjaras
Valles
Haskell County Sheriff’s Office
Southwest Regional Medical Center
Liberal
Liberal Police Department
Man Sought For Alleged Battery in Garden City
Garden City police seek a Hispanic man 20 to 30 years old, 5 6 to 5 8 feet, wearing a dark long sleeve shirt, who grabbed a woman as she shut her car door near North Main Street around 5 50 am. The victim, Miranda Perez 29, activated her car horn and lights before fleeing. Investigation ongoing.
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Garden City
Mike Utz
Miranda Perez
North Main Street
Utz
Perez
Holcomb police investigate four car burglaries at high school
Holcomb police responded Monday afternoon to four automobile burglaries in the Holcomb High School parking lot. Two windows were broken, stereos stolen from all four cars, plus speakers and amplifiers from one vehicle and about $55 taken. Total loss about $1,950. A school employee saw the damage and a possible vehicle description was noted. Four to six juvenile males may be involved. none are Holcomb High students. The chief suspects gang members by description.
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Holcomb
Holcomb High School
N. Jones Ave
Jeff Sharp
Sharp
Holcomb High
Farmland completes sale of pork division
Farmland Industries Inc. completed the sale of its pork division to Smithfield Foods Inc. on Tuesday after a bankruptcy judge approved the deal in a Kansas City proceeding. Road condition hotline provided as 1-800-585-7623.
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Kansas City, Mo
Ap)farmland Industries Inc
Smithfield Foods Inc
Public meetings on pipeline comment period set in three counties
Landowners in Scott, Lane, and Finney counties have until Nov 24 to comment on a Cheyenne Plains Pipeline Co. proposed 340 million dollar gas line. The 380 mile 30 inch route would pass through Colorado and Kansas, ending near Greensburg, with public meetings in Scott City Fort Morgan and Burlington and draft environmental impact statements available locally.
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Scott
Lane
Finney
Cheyenne Plains Pipeline Co
el Paso Corp
Colorado
Kansas
Scott County
Lane County
Finney County
Hodgeman County
Cheyenne
Wyo
Greensburg
Midwest
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Catherine Brungardt
Ford County
Spearville
Brungardt
Aquila
George Minter
Kansas City
Minter
Garden City
Cheyenne Plains
Max Morgan
Scott City
Scott County Fairgrounds
Fairground Road
Quality Inn
US. Highway
Fort Morgan
Colo
Old Town Museum
S. 14Th St
Burlington
Scott County Library
Eighth St
Finney County Library
E. Walnut St
Boy Scouts help family build character and community
Craig Wheeler, 46, Commerce Bank exec, guides his sons Jacob 13 and Aaron 10 in Boy Scouts Santa Fe Trail Council in southwest Kansas. The council spans 19 counties with about 3200 youths, including districts Buffalo Range and others. Wheeler serves on health and safety risk management, leads Webelos, and emphasizes self reliance and service. United Way funds support scouting, with Hispanic Pack 76 expansion and a 2004 $15,000 grant anticipated as part of a $475,000 campaign running Aug to Nov.
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Craig Wheeler
Idaho
Commerce Bank
Jacob
Aaron
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts
Kansas
Buffalo Range
Finney
Greeley
Hamilton
Kearny
Lane
Scott
Wichita
Clark
Ford
Grant
Gray
Haskell
Hodgeman
Meade
Morton
Ness
Seward
Stanton
Stevens
Wheeler
Council
Webelos
Spanish Peaks
Walsenburg
Colo
Cub Scouts
Cathy
Wheelers
Kenneth Henderson
Garden City High School
Greeley, Finney
Scott County Sheriff’s
Garden City
Kevin Randall
Finney County United Way
Randall
United Way
Attorney general targets fraud against elderly and disabled
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline announces a Vulnerable Adults Task Force to prioritize consumer complaints involving seniors and disabled residents. The effort partners with AARP Kansas Advocacy and Protective Services and the Kansas Bankers Association to educate and coordinate anti fraud campaigns across agencies and local groups. Since March the office has logged about 400 vulnerable adult complaints, with overall consumer complaints rising from 4200 in 1995 to 8500 in 2000.
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Topeka
Phill Kline
Kline
Aarp Kansas Advocacy and Protective Services
Kansas Bankers Association
North Topeka
Bryan Brown
Stacy Jeffress
Jeffress
New Twenty Dollar Bill Fails at Some Machines
As the new 20 dollar notes circulate, automated payment machines at grocers and Sprint stores fail to accept them. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing says outreach was expanded after the 1998 redesign, with upgrades planned by vendors and operators to ease acceptance.
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Wichita
US Treasury Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Bureau
Dawn Haley
Washington, D.C
Postal Service
Haley
U.S. Postal Service
Dillon Grocery
Sprint
Dan Wilinsky
Wilinsky
Andrew Jackson
White House
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Boy
Kyle Ochampaugh
Third Street
Ochampaugh
Santa Fe Trail Boy Scout Organization
E. Fulton St
Bob Beck
Santa Fe Trail Council
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