Campaign to curb drunken driving launches in area
Law enforcement agencies including Ottawa Police and Franklin County Sheriff's Office will work with 100 agencies statewide through Sept 7 to crack down on drunken driving under the national drive Drunk Driving. Under Arrest. Ottawa Police Chief Dennis Butler urges sober driving and notes detectors will trigger tests for any alcohol hint. A KS DOT grant funds efforts including a poster contest for children with prizes like bike helmets and a Hutchinson hotel getaway.
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Ottawa Police
Franklin County Sheriff's Office
Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office
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Ottawaks
Grand Prairie Hotel
Hutchinson
Kansas unemployment climbs to 7.7 percent in July
Kansas unemployment rose to 7.7 percent in July, the seventh straight month with year-over-year job declines. The Wichita metro area reached 9.9 percent as aviation layoffs hit four counties. Manufacturing losses totaled over 22,000 year over year, while construction and financial services added jobs, signaling mixed signals about a potential early stabilization.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Department of Labor
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Department
Wichita
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Harvey
Sedgwick
Sumner
Bryan Derreberry
Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce
Alison Felix
Federal Reserve Bank
Kansas City
Felix
Federal Reserve
Jackson Hole
Wyo
Ben Bernanke
U.S
Derreberry
Kansas to host swine flu summit next week
Governor Parkinson and Kansas health officials will hold an invitation only swine flu summit on Monday in Topeka. The meeting will be broadcast to six statewide locations as Kansas reports H1N1 in 49 of 105 counties with one death.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Mark Parkinson
Kansas Health and Emergency Management
Kansas
Meth lab seizure leads to two arrests in Wellsville area
Franklin County deputies and Wellsville police joined by the DEA to arrest McCracken and Culbertson after a mobile meth lab search yielded meth ingredients. A K 9 indicated drugs, with processing materials found in the vehicle. Both suspects remained in jail pending court hearings. the case ties to a 2006 kidnapping and prior assault charges.
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Culbertson
Franklin County Sheriff’s Department
Gillespie
Franklin County
Craig Davis
Davis
Kansas City
Wellsville
Sheriff's Department
Ottawa Police Department
Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Basra to get new 65,000 seat soccer stadium by 2013
Kansas City firm 360 Architecture wins a 500 million contract to design a 65,000 seat stadium in Basra Iraq with a 10,000 seat training campus. The project aims to land the Gulf Cup of Nations and is funded by Iraq with security walls and checkpoints planned amid regional tension.
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Kansas City, Mo
Iraq
Kansas City
360 Architecture
Basra
George Heinlein
U.S
Gina Leo Stingley
Populous
HOK
Heinlein
Harley-Davidson weighs Kansas City site for York plant move
Harley-Davidson is considering four states for relocating its York Pennsylvania motorcycle assembly plant. Company officials toured Murfreesboro Tennessee, Shelbyville Indiana and Kentucky, and Kansas City Missouri to assess options. A decision is due later this year as Pennsylvania offers incentives to keep the plant.
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Harley-Davidson Inc
Pennsylvania
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Shelbyville
Ind
Kansas City
Bob Klein
Harley-Davidson
Harley
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