Fire arson dog to aid in Home Lumber blaze probe
Emporia investigators enlist Avon a four year old yellow Labrador retriever as part of a national arson response team to help determine the cause of the $1.5 million fire at Home Lumber Company Three firefighters were treated for minor chemical burns and a fire truck was damaged as crews battled smoke filled flames that began Sunday morning and burned chemicals treated lumber shingles and paints in the building
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Burned Home Lumber Co
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Home Lumber Company
James Woydziak
Topeka
Thomas
Woydziak
Newman Hospital
Missouri marine joins Cuba travel protest
Wayne Blumhorst, 58, a Slater farmer and ex Marine, says the United States wrong to ban Americans from visiting Cuba after an illegal seven day trip. He traveled with about 190 fellow U S citizens aged 3 to 86 organized by the Freedom to Travel Campaign, meeting Cuban citizens during their trip near Slater.
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Florida
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Freedom To Travel Campaign
Travel ban on Cuba shapes US Cuban ties and penalties
A Cuban travel ban under the Trading with the Enemy Act and the 1992 Cuba Democracy Act restricts most US citizens from visiting Cuba. Journalists researchers and relatives of Cubans may travel. unauthorized visits incur up to 10 years imprisonment and a 250000 dollar fine. Authorities froze funds and seized mementos from a Freedom to Travel campaign trip, while a suit pressed the administration to end travel restrictions.
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Roberto Robaina
Blumhorst
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Freedom To Travel Campaign
Medea Benjamin
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Freedom To Travel
Benjamin
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Clinton
Houston
Nature trail honors deceased boy Jason Miller at Crawford State Park
A new Deer Run Nature Trail near Farlington Lake opens with a dedication ceremony to memorialize 15 year old Jason Miller. The quarter mile loop, built by family friends and Kansas wildlife staff, cost about 2500 dollars with material donations from local companies. State officials praise private public cooperation and the project supports youth wildlife education. Dorothy Miller spoke of Jason’s love of nature and his poems about the lake.
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Jason Miller
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
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Crawford County
Dorothy Miller
Jason
Drywood Creek
Pittsburg
Phil Martin
Bob Grant
Cherokee
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