Eaglets Face Lone Parent in Clinton Nest
Two bald eaglets hatched at Clinton Reservoir may grow up with only one parent after a single adult eagle has been seen since mid April. Dave Rhoades of the corps. Joyce Wolf of the Jayhawk Audubon Society note the nesting is a first for Kansas and exciting to observers. Officials have been notified and the eaglets appear to be thriving though hard to view.
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Clinton, Kan
Clinton Reservoir
Dave Rhoades
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Joyce Wolf
Jayhawk
Agencies add to drug fight with Guard and CAP
Gov. Mike Hayden announced Kansas will mobilize the National Guard and Civil Air Patrol to aid drug enforcement. The Guard gets 363000 from the Defense Department under the 1988 act, the CAP about 20000 from the Drag Enforcement Agency and the Forest Service. They will transport officers by helicopter to locate cultivated marijuana fields and move seized contraband, with ground radar for air smuggling detection. CAP planes will fly DEA and Forest Service agents to search fields.
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Topeka
Kan
Mike Hayden
Kansas National Guard
Kansas Civil Air Patrol
National Guard
Federal Defense Department
Hayden
Civil Air Patrol
The
Air Patrol
DEA
Forest Service
Wichita backs local minority-teacher funding program
Wichita officials launch a $1,500 annual tuition aid plan for high school seniors at Wichita State University or Friends University in exchange for a three year teaching pledge in Sedgwick County. The program aims to fund 20 students in its first year with $38,000 combined from city and district sources and a similar amount from the Growth partnership.
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Wichita, Kan
Wichita
Wichita State University of Friends University
Sedgwick County
Wichita-Sedgwick County
Crawford
Kansas Wheat Crop Sinks Amid Ongoing Drought
Kansas Agricultural Statistics reports 63 percent of the state's wheat in very poor condition and 26 percent in poor, with only 3 percent good or excellent. As of last week 93 percent short of surface moisture and 97 percent of subsurface moisture. Drought hampers pastures and feed grain supplies across areas.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Agricultural Statistics
KCPL to refund 1.4 million in excess fuel costs
The Kansas Corporation Commission approved Kansas City Power & Light Co. to credit $1.4 million to Kansas customers for excess fuel costs from a 127 day Wolf Creek nuclear plant shutdown in 1987 88. The average residential bill will drop about $4.40 next year. The refund stems from a 127 day shutdown at the Wolf Creek plant near Burlington that began September 27, 1987.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Kansas
Wolf Creek
Burlington
Teen warns peers about wine coolers and danger
A 15-year-old girl writes to Dear Ann Landers warning peers that wine coolers contain about 6 percent alcohol and can taste like fruit punch, leading to unnoticed drunkenness and trouble. The Washington Post article is cited, stressing safer choices and parental guidance.
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Ann Landers
Washington Post
Catherine O'Neill
Mary J
Georgetown
Library keeps book on shelves after witchcraft protest
Hays Public Library Board declined to ban The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder after a local parent, Steve LeClerc, requested removal. The seven member board unanimously voted to keep the book and deny restricting access, while a school committee review deemed it appropriate for libraries.
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Hays, Kan
Hays Public Library Board
Steve LeClerc
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
LeClerc
The
Navigators
Afta
Glenn Simmons
Wilson Elementary School
Dave Bassinger
Hays
Fred Kaufman
Kaufman
Reader questions weight gain after quitting smoking
Dear Dr Donohue explains quitting smoking often leads to weight gain, usually small but sometimes real. He notes weight tends not to accumulate in the abdomen for many, but abdominal fat signals higher heart disease risk via waist to hip ratio, and he concedes gaps in understanding why.
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DR. Donohue
P.P
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Johnson County
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Paul Morrison
Hamons
Miss Solaberry
Drug
Drag Enforcement Agency
U.S. Forest Service
KCPL
Mary
Chicago
Evanston
Cupid
Man
Library
Kid
Dr. Pael
Ottawa
VFW
Party P
Jamin' Lee
OBAC
S. Main
KFC
Pigeas Chicken
Main
Mrs
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Auburn, Kansas
National Hospital
Ransom Memorial Hospital
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