Franklin County Farm Bureau wins Best Award at state meeting
The Franklin County Farm Bureau earned the Best Award at the 81st Kansas Farm Bureau state conference in Wichita for political education efforts including three Legislative Coffee sessions in Ottawa and two lobbying events at the Statehouse. Harlan Page accepted the award, with Mike Streebin representing Franklin County at the President's Conference.
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Franklin County Farm Bureau
Kansas Farm Bureau
Mike
Peggy Streebin
Louise
Jack Wray
Donna Eichenberger
Harlan Page
John McFarland
Jeff Casten
Almeda Edwards
Wichita
Ottawa
Statehouse
Mike Streebin
Franklin County
KFB
Farm Bureau
Three Richmond men arrested in Garnett burglary case
Franklin County and Anderson County officers teamed to arrest John W. Calcott 18, John Charles Boase Jr. 23, and John Christopher Ginger 20 on felony burglary and theft charges plus misdemeanor property damage. They seized stolen tools and a suitcase as witnesses linked Calcott to the scene. all have court appearances. Boase and Ginger posted $1,000 bonds while Calcott posted $5,000. Ginger has prior burglary related convictions and probation.
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Richmond
Franklin County
Anderson County Sheriff's Department
John W. Calcott
John Charles Boase Jr
John Christopher Ginger
Anderson County District Court
Calcott
Franklin County Sheriff’s
Boase
Ginger
Nintendo
Wal- Mart
Ottawa man charged with three felonies after hammer attack
Ottawa police say 34 year old Michael Lee Osburn attacked a 37 year old woman with a hammer during a domestic dispute at 810 W Std. He allegedly struck the woman’s 14 year old daughter and threatened to kill a 15 year old friend. Franklin County prosecutors filed aggravated battery and aggravated assault charges plus two misdemeanor counts. Bond set at 10,000 with Osburn in jail.
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Ottawa
Michael Lee Osburn
Ron Puterbaugh
Osburn
Franklin County Attorney’s Office
Franklin County
Puterbaugh
Beaver
Edwin Smith
Pittman
Normand
Meier
Franklin-Douglas County
Lafayette County
Edwards
Oklahoma
Lyon
Douglas County
Police recover loaded revolver tied to three state crime spree
Odessa Missouri police recovered a loaded revolver linked to a three state crime spree during Thanksgiving weekend. Suspected biker Dean Edwin Beaver faces charges across three Kansas counties. Two accomplices, Raynika Normand and Michael Pittman, were charged with aggravated robbery in Franklin County.
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Franklin County Sheriff’s
Allen Campbell
Pittman
Normand
Beaver
Kansas City
Campbell
Stanley
Emporia
Ottawa
Bush unveils tax plan aiming at working poor and middle class
Former President Bush outlines a tax package touted as compassionate conservatism. The plan lowers rates to four brackets, doubles the child tax credit, expands tax-free education savings, and would eliminate estate taxes. It also preserves the research credit and ends the Social Security earnings limit for older retirees.
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Bush
Associated Press
Forbes
Clinton
Congress
Genome mapping on chromosome 22 moves science forward
Scientists announce a landmark map of chromosome 22 detailing about 700 genes, representing 1.1 percent of the estimated 61 000 human genes. The international team reports 97 percent of the chromosome’s genetic material and signals progress toward genome-wide therapy advances and a completed draft genome next spring.
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Nature
Ian Dunham
Sanger Centre
Cambridge
England
Nature Report
Local Police Roundup Sees Teens Arrested On License Warrants
Daily Report covers arrests including Michael C. Sheets 17 of Williamsburg on suspicion of driving without a license and Justin Guyett 19 of Garnett held on a Franklin County warrant for probation violation. Thefts and vandalism across Wellsville Rantoul West Franklin Pomona and area, with items stolen including air equipment tools, gas and a VCR, totaling several thousand dollars. Multiple juveniles arrested for theft at Wal Mart and other incidents with police reporting recoveries and bonds.
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Michael C. Sheets
N. Oak
South East Avenue
Williamsburg
Justin Paul Guyett
Kelly Reeder
S. McGinnis Ave
Rantoul
Ryan Poe
Stafford Road
West Franklin
Pomona
Billy J. Adams Jr
Apt
Adams
Michele D. Goracke
Idaho Road
South Princeton
Goracke
Michael F. Deegan
Keokuk
Main
Marc Steven Whatley
Lawrence
North Main
Douglas County
Robert and
Tiffany Hogue
Burlington
Wis
Mercedes
S. Princeton
Joy Annette Ewbank
E. Hamblin
Shawn D. Markley
S. Pecan
Ottawa infant survives crash as parents die in accident
Aryka Finch, 3 months old, remained in serious condition at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City after a crash that killed her parents Stacie Meckel, 16, and Eric Finch, 19. Codie Prochaska, 19, also in serious condition at KU Medical Center, was one of four in the car that crossed the center line into a U-Haul truck on US-59 north of Ottawa.
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Aryka Finch
Ottawa
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
Codie W. Prochaska
Ing
Stacie M. Meckel
Eric J. Finch
Prochaska
KU Medical Center
Anderson County school board to meet Thursday
The Anderson County USD 365 Board of Education will convene at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Anderson County Junior Senior High School music room. Discussion items include technology and a request by the ACHS Student Council to attend a conference in California next month.
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Garnett
Anderson County
USD 365 Board of Education
ACHS
California
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