Slow Kansas Wheat Crop Heads Delayed by Weather
State officials report damp cool weather slows Kansas wheat development with only 90 percent headed by Sunday, well below last year's 98 percent and the five year average of 97. Corn planting at 61 percent trails 99 percent a year ago and the five year average of 96. Sorghum and soybean plantings show minimal progress at 3 percent, far behind prior years.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Kas
Graves leads POW MIA tribute on Statehouse steps
In Topeka Kansas a ceremony honoring prisoners of war and missing soldiers was held on the statehouse south steps as a POW MIA commemorative stamp was released by the U.S. Postal Service. Gov Bill Graves thanked attendees including former POWs and recalled his father’s World War II service.
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Topeka
Kan
Statehouse
U.S. Postal Service
Bill Graves
Graves
Hugoton Energy to Acquire Consolidated Oil in $110 Million Deal
Hugoton Energy Corp says it will acquire Consolidated Oil & Gas Inc of Denver for about $110 million. The deal, expected to close in September after stockholder and regulator approvals, involves about $35 million cash and the rest in Hugoton stock. Consolidated will own nearly half of Hugoton’s stock post merger, and its assets are largely in Kansas and neighboring states.
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Wichita, Kan
Hugeton Energy Corp
Consolidated Oil & Gas Inc
Denver
Oil and Gas Company
Consolidated
Hugoton
Hugoton Energy
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
North Dakota
United States
Kerkorian Drops Bid for Chrysler in $22.8B Offer
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian withdrew his takeover proposal for Chrysler Corp after a $22.8 billion bid to buy the remaining 90 percent, backed by ex-Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca, was rejected. He will not sell his 36 million Chrysler shares.
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Detroit
Kirk Kerkorian
Chrysler Corp
Kerkorian
Clinton OKs use of troops in Bosnia relief
President Clinton said he would make U S ground troops available to assist UN peacekeepers in repositioning in Bosnia if NATO requests aid for withdrawal or force reconfiguration. The move marks a shift from prior limits and could expose Americans to crossfire in the ongoing three year conflict.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Bosnia
Clinton
U.S
U.N
Yugoslavia
Congress
NATO
Air Force Academy
RMH weighs direct physician hires amid Seto aid debate
Ransom Memorial Hospital Board held a special session to discuss allowing direct hospital hiring of physicians and to consider aiding Casey Seto, a recruited doctor facing financial hurdles. Adrian Derousseau joined the RMH board, replacing Bob Green who resigns as trustee but remains as board lawyer. The group took no action after about three hours, noting industry shifts toward hospital employment but facing local opposition from physicians.
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Ottawa
Seto
RMH
Bob Bregant
Olathe
Bregant
Technology offers big promise and risks for schools
ILVER SPRING AP It is seventh hour at White Oak Middle School as 21 students work in a transformed classroom. Hastings Newbury uses a computer to explore graphics while Albert Davis tests a square root for a robotic arm. Veteran teacher Ken Seamon notes the change from industrial arts to technology driven learning. The piece examines how tech could open worlds and build skills for future jobs, but many schools lack basic tech, face costs, and worry about obsolescence amid training gaps.
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Ilver Spring, Ltd
White Oak Middle School
Hastings Newbury
Albert Davis
Ken Seamon
IRS forms make toilet paper for Ovington
IRS forms and waste paper from the northern Kentucky IRS center are recycled into toilet tissue and other paper products. Since November 1993 the program has moved over 2 million pounds of waste paper generating more than $55,000, with $25,000 saved on trash pickup. Funds go to offset tuition for low income children at the center's day care.
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Internal Revenue Service Center
Kentucky
IRS
Sue Ahr
IRS Center
Jet crashes into apartments near Sheppard AFB in Texas
A T-38 Talon from the 80th Flying Training Wing crashed into an Amber Falls apartment complex in Ichita Walts Texas at about 10 am. The impact killed at least three and injured three more. The two crew aboard ejected. their condition was not released. Parts scattered across a nearby campus and cars, with one woman in surgery after critical injuries.
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Ichita Walts
Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
Mike Cox
Amber Falls
80Th
Sheppard Air Force Base
Wichita Falls
Bethania
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