Quail Run Track Club Encourages Student Fitness
At Quail Run School in Kansas, about 80 fourth to sixth graders join a twice weekly track club. Colin Phillips, 12, runs 1.4 miles with friends, on trails near 1130 Inverness Drive. Nurse Barb Heeb started the parent-led program after budget cuts ended the previous school program.
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Mike Vader
Journal-Wort
Nikki McGrew
Serena O'Connor
Quail Run
Colin Phillips
Inverness Drive
Barb Heeb
Board backs school finance filing in Kansas Supreme Court
State Board of Education chair Steve Abrams said the board supports its legal brief asserting the Legislature failed to fix the school finance system. The brief labels the law an interim measure and notes it does not align with the court's constitutional standard. The case, with oral arguments set for May 11, centers on funding adequacy, distribution fairness, local tax options, and the impact on districts including the Sweet 17 such as Lawrence.
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Topeka
State Board of Education
Steve Abrams
Kansas Supreme Court
Abrams
Dan Biles
Atty
Phill Kline
Kline
Biles
Supreme Court
Lawrence
Kansas
Wichita
Insurgents Hit Funeral Killing Dozens in Iraq
Insurgents used a car bomb to target a funeral in northern Iraq killing 25 mourners and wounding over 50. The attack followed four days of deadly insurgent incidents across the country, amid reports of a held Australian man, Douglas Wood, shown in a militant video. The deceased included Iraqis and possibly others in a rising wave of violence as the new government faced threats.
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Iraq
San Francisco
Douglas Wood
APTH/AP
Wood
California
Kansans Feel Bite In Bedbug Comeback Across State
Kansas faces a rising bedbug problem with infestations reported in homes apartments and high end hotels. Kansas State University entomology expert Ludek Zurek notes worsening cases with at least 11 incidents in the past year across Lawrence Manhattan and Topeka. Lawrence exterminator Pete Haley reports handling five to six bedbug cases over about 18 months.
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Ludek Zurek
Kansas State University
Zurek
Lawrence
Manhattan
Topeka
Pete Haley
Haley Pest Control
Teens Elevate Style For Spring Pulse
In Pulse, teens keep casual uniform of flip flops T shirts and jeans but are adding brighter skirts bold accessories and ballet flats for girls while boys also dress up more this spring.
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Associated Press
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Mbell
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