Roundup Fire Destroys Deerfield Mobile Home
The Kearny County Sheriff investigates a Tuesday afternoon mobile home fire on 410 Avenue B in Deerfield. Firefighters, deputies, and Emergency Management responded at 2 01 p m. The home owned by Gregorio Banda is a total loss. Bobbi Knoll had moved items in but wasn’t living there. An electrical short is suspected as the cause.
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Kearny County
Bobbi Knoll
Deerfield
Jarboe
Knoll
Vandalism and Burglary Probed at Bancroft Street Homes
Garden City police investigate two vacant-house break ins on Bancroft Street between 8 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday. In the first, paint was smeared on carpet and walls, sinks were plugged, a flood attempt caused $5,500 damage. In the second, a hot tub was damaged with its cover, totaling $150.
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Bancroft Street
Garden City
Mike Utz
Fine arts open house at GCCC Thursday event preview
Garden City Community College invites the public to an open house in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building from 6 30 to 8 30 pm on Thursday. Attendees can view ticket sales for Wiley and the Hairy Man and observe an open rehearsal for the children s production and a 7 30 pm performance by the College Singers ensemble.
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Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
GCCC
Michael Gehmlich
Mercer Gallery
David Kinder
Brian McCallum
Garden City
Doug West
Benefit Dinner and Dance for Marine Veteran Butch Robinson
A benefit event supports Robert Butch Robinson a Garden City resident and U S Marine Corps veteran battling cancer. The dinner at 4 p m and dance at 6 p m Sunday at the American Legion 125 W Pine St costs 5 per plate with raffles a bake sale and an auction featuring hotel stays jewelry restaurant and salon certificates and other items.
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Robinson
U.S. Marine Corps
Garden City
American Legion
W. Pine St
Conflicting testimony at trial in Garden City rape case
In Finney County District Court Andrew Coffield 20 faces rape and aggravated criminal sodomy charges from a Feb 19 party encounter with a 22 year old woman. Det. Bill Powers testified Coffield admitted consensual sex on the hood of a car after initially denying a single partner, while the woman testified she blacked out and later learned someone was having sex with her.
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Garden City
Finney County District Court
Andrew Coffield
Bill Powers
Coffield
Eighth St
Powers
Lucille Douglass
Douglass
Finney County
Tamara Hicks
Doug Heit
Heit
Iraqi Constitution compared to US model at Constitution Day
Lt Col Mike Duttamo, back from Iraq, urged about 40 at Garden City Community College to view Iraqs proposed Constitution as similar to the US and European democracies while noting unique challenges. He described a Parliament, executive, a president and prime minister, a supreme court, and protections for religion and speech with Islam as state religion.
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Iraq
Mike Duttamo
U.S
Dittamo
Kansas Army National Guard
130Th Field Artillery
Garden City Community College
Duttamo
Supreme Court
Duttama
Saddam Hussein
Saddam
Baghdad
Energy crisis highlighted at Kansas renewable energy conference
At a two day Kansas energy conference officials and regulators heard Randy Udall warn that rising natural gas costs threaten a tough winter and that America must pursue renewable fuels. He noted Kansas has become a net importer of fossil fuels and warned self sufficiency in conventional petroleum may never return.
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Topeka
Hns
Randy Udall
Udall
Community Office of Resource Efficiency
Kansas
Texas
Regents adopt policy on meningitis vaccinations
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a policy requiring all incoming dormitory residents at six state universities to obtain a meningitis vaccination or sign a refusal waiver starting fall 2006. About 14,000 housing students, representing roughly 16 percent of enrollments, are affected.
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Topeka
State Board of Regents
University of Kansas
Wichita State University
Emporia State University
Fort Hays State University
Kansas State University
Pittsburg State University
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
Reggie Robinson
National Meningitis Association
Colorado
Iowa
Missouri
Oklahoma
University of Missouri
Aaron O'Neal
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Fine Arts
Robert
Butch” Robinson
CTANA
PRICE
Random Garden City
Brad Nading
Constitution Day
Jamie Quinonez
Quinonez
Dale Theye
Theye
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