Franklin County student places 65th in state spelling bee
Central Heights seventh grader Devin Kueser placed 65th of 105 at the All Kansas Spelling Bee in Topeka after winning the Franklin County spelling bee in March. Gen Gillespie of Salina won the regional title.
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Franklin Countian
Central Heights
Devin Kueser
Topeka
Kueser
Ronald
Janet Kueser
Franklin County
Gen Gillespie
Salina
Ex-wife and son slain. ex-husband kills self in Kansas
Neighbors found Janice Whittington 43 and her son Benjamin 4 shot dead at a Maple Hill area home. the ex-husband Ronald Whittington 41, a rural mail carrier, was found nearby with a shotgun. Police say the triple tragedy likely occurred Friday when the woman went to collect belongings. bodies discovered Saturday. sheriff identifies victims.
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Maple Hill
Kan
Kansas
Wabaunsee County
Old
Ronald Whittington
Janice Whittington
Benjamin
Whittingtons
Man Shot by Emporia Officer During Burglary Probe
Emporia Kansas police say an officer shot and killed a man after gunfire during a burglary investigation in the early hours. Officers went to a central residence around 3:30 a.m. as multiple suspects fled on foot before the exchange. The wounded suspect died a short time later.
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Emporia
Kan
Robert Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Feuding Koch brothers begin trial over stock sale
In Wichita Kan the Koch family founders brothers Bill Frederick Charles and David Koch head into jury selection in a multi billion dollar dispute over stock sales from 1983 The suit seeks more than 1 billion arguing underpaid proceeds and hidden refinery gains while the defense maintains no wrongdoing and frames the case as a business dispute The case filed in 1985 has seen a gag order limiting comments from the parties and their lawyers.
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Charles
David Koch
Charles Koch
Koch Industries
Chemical Technology
Bill Koch
Florida
Koch Crime Commission
Kansas
Frederick Koch
Europe
New York
Pine Bend, Minn
David
Sam Crow
Crow
Endangered Rivers List Highlights Hanford Reach and Missouri
A national conservation group names the Hanford Beach of the Columbia River as North America’s most endangered river and urges a 90 000 acre wildlife refuge. The Missouri River Chattanooga River and Lower Snake River also appear on the 1998 list with threats from pollution and development. Senator Murray and Representative Dicks back Wild and Scenic protection for Hanford Reach amid concerns over farm runoff and damming.
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Hanford Beach
Columbia River
Washington State
North America
Clinton
United States
Richland, Wash
American Rivers Organization
Lorraine Bodi
American Rivers’ Northwest
Seattle
Missouri River
Midwest
Chattahoochee River
Snake River
Potomac
Pocomoke
Maryland
Passaic River
New Jersey
Blackfoot River
Montana
Kern River
California
Apple River
Wisconsin
Pinto Creek
Arizona
Rebecca Vodder
American Rivers
Patty "Murray
D-Wash
Norm Dicks
Hanford
Hanford Reach
Northwest
Snake
Columbia
Chattahoochee
Apple
Kansas
Water tests planned after vinyl chloride in rural Kansas pipes
Doniphan County Kansas reports vinyl chloride contamination in drinking water from older PVC pipes. EPA adds 50000 dollars to expand Midwest testing this spring and summer. Vinyl Institute funds lab analysis in Iowa and Nebraska while Missouri and Kansas begin sampling.
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Ansas City
Kan
Doniphan
Environmental Protection Agency
Midwest
Jennifer Morris
EPA
Kansas City
Tan Epa
Vinyl Institute
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
The
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Wirsees
Knife wound in parking lot fight ends in arrests
Police said a dispute over a parking space escalated Friday afternoon into a fight in which a knife was used. Hubble Ashley Hill, 19, of Pomona, was booked on suspicion of aggravated battery and released on $1,000 bond. James Frederick Collins, a 52 year old truck driver from Lee's Summit Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of battery and released on his own recognizance. Both were arrested near South King Street after officers recovered a survival knife.
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Hubble Ashley Hill
Pomona
Franklin County
James Frederick Collins
Collins
Hill
South King
Mindy D. Carlson
Indiana Road
Clifford J. Sheler Jr
Georgia Road
Sheler
Teresa Maria Lewis
S. Cedar
Men report assault with hammer at Pine Manor Apartments
Ottawa residents Dale E. Gray and Bret Eugene Morelet reported an aggravated assault early Saturday when a man chased them with a hammer at Pine Manor Apartments about 3 45 a m He broke a window in Gray s car as they left The suspect s name was not released and no arrests had been made The two men said they were involved in an ongoing feud with the suspect
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Ottawa
Pine Manor Apartments
Dale E. Gray
E. Logan
Bret Eugene Morelet
S. Locust No. 1
Gray
Morelet
Multiple arrests and incidents reported in Franklin County
The sheriff's news lists arrests including Kevin L. Duty on I-35 for suspended license and Bryan K. Blanton for two counts of battery. It covers domestic battery arrests, DUI and revoked license suspicions, protective custody, a dog bite victim, thefts, vandalism, and several police and medical incidents across Ottawa, Richmond, Princeton, and Williamsburg with dates Friday to Sunday.
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Kevin L. Duty
Wellsville
Bryan K. Blanton
Osawatomie
Jed’s Bar & Grill
Princeton
Franklin County
Tina Marie Mader
Garnett
Eisenhower Road
Richmond
Ronald J. Morris
Kansas Highway Patrol
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
S. Main
Country Mart
S. Princeton
Olathe
South McGinnis
Rantoul
Walter Weems
Kentucky
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Doris Swank
Thomas Ferguson
Helen Buffington
McKenzie Daniels
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Williamsburg
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Joe Petty
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John Leonard Rose
S. Lincoln
Briggs & Stratton
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Michelle L. Gardner
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Verna J. Mitchell
Gregory A. McMahon
E. Central
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Courthouse Square Apartments
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Osage City
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