Unemployment Up In Franklin County In December
Franklin County posted 4.4 percent unemployment in December up from 3.9 percent in November with 667 people jobless out of a 15 149 workforce. Year over year unemployment fell from 4.9 percent. Other area counties saw mixed results with Anderson Coffey Miami and Osage also rising while several counties reported decreases.
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Anderson
Coffey
Miami
Osage
Economy slows but still growing in 2003 fourth quarter
The Commerce Department reports 4 percent GDP growth in Q4 2003, down from 8.2 percent in Q3 and below the 4.8 percent forecast. For all 2003, growth was 3.1 percent, the strongest since 2000, while payrolls fell to show just 1,000 new jobs in December and 2.3 million total losses since January 2001. Analysts expect hiring to improve later this year.
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Commerce Department
United States
Bush
Kansas Day activities at Eisenhower School inspire learning
Marty Birrell of Prairie Park Nature Center discussed Kansas wildlife with students while showing a beaver pelt. Fourth grader Krista Bonzo and first grader Jonathan Branson used a map and toy car to imagine traveling Kansas as teachers organized square dancing rag dolls quilts Kansas cake and Kansas bingo at Eisenhower Elementary.
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Marty Birrell
Prairie Park Nature Center
Lawrence
Kansas
Eisenhower School
Eisenhower
Krista Bonzo
Jonathan Branson
State of Kansas
Lawmakers push for bigger Army amid surprise 30,000 rise
U S lawmakers complain at a Capitol Hill hearing after Defense Secretary Rumsfeld authorized an emergency rise to 510,000 Army personnel from 482,400. They seek permanence and question funding, while Pentagon cites new capabilities over sheer headcount. army stress from Iraq terror war and global commitments is cited.
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Defense Department
Capitol Hill
Iraq
Jack Reed
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Army
Peter Schoomaker
Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Schoemaker
Fourth graders present Kansas Day portraits in Garfield gym
Garfield Elementary students dressed as famous Kansans for Kansas Day science fair style presentations. Erica Roberts portrays astronaut Ron Evans with a papier mache helmet while Cody Garner embodies Charles Lindbergh and Abby Shumway enacts Carrie Nation. Roberts notes Evans is a distant relative and her father attended the Apollo 17 launch.
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Garfield
Kansas Day
St. Francis
Cody Garner
Kansas
Charles Lindbergh
Chris Garner
Lindbergh
Atlantic
Evans
Abby Shumway
Carrie Nation
Blast at Afghan weapons cache kills seven U S troops
In Ghazni province Afghanistan a blast at an old weapons depot used by U S forces killed seven soldiers and wounded three with another missing as investigators weigh accident versus possible booby trap. An Afghan interpreter was wounded. Local officials say the arms included rifle ammunition and mortar rounds as troops worked to defuse them near Dehe Hendu about 90 miles from Kabul.
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Afghanistan
U.S
Dehe Hendu
Kabul
Ghazni Province
Bryan Hilferty
Hilferty
Haji Asadullah Khan
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