Phillipsburg Riverless Festival celebrates 13th year in town
In Phillipsburg Kansas the annual Riverless Festival drew crowds despite lacking a river. Neal Holliday and downtown retailers launched the event in the mid 1980s to lure shoppers, growing into a summer tradition with shade trees lining the courthouse square.
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Phillipsburg
Wichita
Arkansas
Salina
Saline
Ellis
Big Creek
Kirwin Reservoir
Kansas
Phillips County
Neal Holliday
Holliday
Federal panel urges ban on human cloning work
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission says creating a cloned human is morally unacceptable and urges Congress to ban cloning experiments aimed at making a person while allowing lab research with human and animal cells. It recommends a sunset clause in three to five years and continued federal funding ban on such research.
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Arlington
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Lawrence H. Miike
State Department of Health
Hawaii
Clinton
Kansas school merger issue resurfaces in Erie debate
Residents of Erie in Neosho County push to consolidate three high schools Erie St Paul and Thayer arguing one school would save money for computers buildings and programs while smaller communities fear losing their schools and independence. Local leaders and lawmakers warn consolidation remains a politically charged topic with a history of failed attempts.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bill Graves
Graves
Mike Matson
Kansas House
Tom Bishop
Wichita
House
Senate
Bishop's
Bill Mason
el Dorado
House Education Committee
Education Committee
Erie
Neosho County
Erie High School
St. Paul
Thayer
Robert McKinney
Richard Reinhardt
Derie
McKinney
Collision leaves one dead in Rush County crash
In Rush County a head on collision Saturday afternoon near Liebenthal on U S 183 left 43 year old Rhonda L Alfrey dead and four youths injured. The pickup driver William L Elder 19 of Bison was treated and released while Alfrey's three children remained in stable condition at Hays Medical Center. Trooper Mark Deterding said Elder appears to have fallen asleep at the wheel.
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Liebenthal
Ellis
Rush County
Rhonda L. Alfrey
U.S. 183
Hays
William L. Elder
Bison
Alfrey
Hays Medical Center
Elder
Mark Deterding
Kansas Highway Patrol
Jurors urged to look beyond monster image in McVeigh case
In the Oklahoma City bombing penalty phase, defense attorneys urged jurors to see Timothy McVeigh as a complex individual rather than a monster. They depicted him as hungry boy, Gulf War veteran, and reliable Army colleague while acknowledging the 168 deaths. The defense seeks life in prison rather than execution, presenting witnesses including former Army comrades to humanize him.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
Army
McVeigh
Branch Davidian
Waco
Texas
Richard Burr
Burr
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