Emporia Reopens Hostess Plant Brings Jobs and Investment
The revived Hostess Brands facility in Emporia adds 30 million in improvements and plans a Friday ribbon cutting for a 36 000 square foot warehouse. A Saturday festival features Twinkie themed events as the plant aims to produce 1.6 million Twinkies daily. About 300 nonunion workers are employed with 50 more expected as the city regains jobs lost in 2012.
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Budget debate eyed as Kansas schools seek funds
Kansas education board members push for 2 to 3 percent funding increases amid lean finances and uncertain revenues. Gov Brownback and lawmakers weigh short term boosts while a Shawnee County court panel reviews a 2010 suit on fair distribution, adequacy of totals, and aid to poorer districts.
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Testing woes force Kansas to delay results and review CETE contract
The Kansas State Board of Education voted 9-0 to not publish any CETE test results this year due to DDoS attacks on the KITE system that disrupted English and math testing. CETE shielded servers, but officials say attacks persist. Critics urge contract reevaluation as 2014 is deemed transitional and not used for school evaluations.
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Hutchinson
John Bacon
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Kansas
Jana Shaver
R-Independence
Aggravated battery charge dropped in pool shooting case
Lawrence teen Alex Caprice Sanders 18 faced aggravated battery and criminal possession of a firearm charges for a May 31 pool shooting at Grove Apartments in Lawrence. The aggravated battery count was dismissed at a Thursday preliminary hearing, but Sanders remains bound over on criminal by a felon. Trial set for Sept 17. bond reduced from 80,000 to 20,000.
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Cheryl Kunard
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kunard
Trial rents second warehouse as front for a drug scheme
Bauman testified that a second California warehouse served as a front. He said Phillip Alarcon and Los Dahda had keys and Dahda stayed there occasionally. The fallout with Dahda followed Alarcon drying marijuana, odor, and Bauman complained Dahda said nothing.
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