Harvest yields rise as Karnal bunt fears spread
In Argonia Kansas farmer Francis Drouhard reports excellent wheat quality and mid to upper 40 bushels per acre expected in southern fields. Yet anxiety grows over Karnal bunt quarantines and possible spread via custom cutters from infected areas. Kansas authorities push for USDA cleaned equipment certificates to protect the state’s billion bushel wheat crop.
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Argonia
Francis Drouhard
Drouhard
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas
Texas
Kansas Department of Agriculture
USDA
Lisa Taylor
Danville Cooperative Assn
David Andra
Department of Agriculture
Andra
Ken Kohlenberg
Danville
Charges filed in drive by that killed 16 month old
In Wichita two men, Jermaine Lowe aged 21 and Michael Walker aged 20, face felony murder charges in a drive by shooting that killed 16 month old Lexus Mathis who slept on a couch in her home. Both suspects are jailed on a 1 million dollar bond each and forbidden to make calls from Sedgwick County Jail to prevent witness intimidation. The shooting occurred early Sunday and police say it was gang related. Lexus died after more than 14 hours of life following abdominal surgery at Via Christi Saint Francis Campus.
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Wichita
Jermaine Lowe
Michael Walker
Clark Owens
Sedgwick County
Owens
Lowe
Walker
Lexus Mathis
John Speer
Lexus
Via Christi Regional Medical Center
St. Francis
Shuttlecock sculpture taken down for Nelson-Atkins expansion
The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City will store the second of its four giant Shuttlecock outdoor sculptures as the museum undergoes a storm sewer upgrade. The 5,000-pound piece, created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in 1994, was removed in anticipation of mid-2005 completion. two sculptures will remain on the lawn.
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Kansas City, Mo
Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art
Claes Oldenburg
Coosje van Bruggen
Nelson-Atkins
Cropduster walks away from crash near Argonia
Tracy Copenhazer, 37, of Anthony, was piloting a cropduster spraying near Argonia when the engine quit at 9:30 a.m. The plane flipped in a wheat and soybean field half a mile south of U.S. Highway 160 near Milan. He walked to the highway and rode with a semi driver to Harper Hospital. minor injuries included stitches to two fingers.
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Aronia
Argonia
U.S. Highway 160
Milan
Harper Hospital
Sumner County
Gerald Gilkey
Tracy Copenhazer
Anthony
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Roxana Hegeman
Associated Press
Danville Cooperative Assa
Eaner
Jonnie Paxson
GiYsen
Renfrew
PEC Tator
Nelson
Cropduster
Crash
Rmitan
Cally
Lawrence
8Th & Mass
Iris
Baldwin City
Zareo
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