Ellis County budget hearings begin three day review
Ellis County Commissioners launched a three day budget proposal session to align 1999 plans with 1998 totals and a 3 percent contingency. County Attorney Tom Drees defended not cutting 3 percent, citing 89 percent of his budget tied to salaries and the need to keep victim-witness and office staff adjustments within the pay plan.
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Ellis County
Commission
Keith Kingsley
Vernon Berens
Tom Drees
Drees
Harvest prep amid hail wreckage across Kansas fields
Farmers brace for a busy harvest as combines and trucks are readied while hail from Memorial Day weekend battered Ellis Rush Ness Trego Gove Logan and Thomas counties. Wheat losses run high with reports to come Friday and June 30. KDHR launches 33rd Annual Wheat Harvest Program plus a Hill City office to connect farmers with custom cutters and laborers.
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Smoky Hill
Ellis
Rush
Ness
Trego
Gove
Logan
Thomas
Ness-Irego
Rush-Ellis
Eldon Thiessen
Kansas Agricultural Statistics
Thiessen
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Ray Crumbaker
Kansas-Colorado
Goodland
Barton County
Crumbaker
Brewster
Kansas Department of Human Resources
KDHR
Hill City
C.W. Hamilton
Colby
Hamilton
FDA warns of risks as Viagra deaths reach sixteen
The FDA notes 16 deaths linked to Viagra use, seven during or after sex, urging caution for heart patients and those on nitroglycerin. Doctors stress sexual activity can be risky for older men with heart disease, while Pfizer cites widespread use and argues Viagra remains safe for appropriate patients.
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Washington
Pve
Ira Sharlip
San Francisco
American Urological Association
William Steers
University of Virginia
Urology
Steers
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Lorrie McHugh
American Heart Association
Pfizer Inc
James Muller
University of Kentucky
Body Found As Rescue Efforts Continue At Grain Elevator
One body recovered and tissue identified as another of four workers missing after the DeBruce Grain complex explosion near Wichita. Two others remain unaccounted for as debris blocks access with five to six tons of steel and concrete. Rescuers, aided by heavy equipment, press on amid hope for survivors.
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Associated Press
Sedgwick County
DeBruce
Haysville
Ken Cox
Sedgwick
Corrie May
DeBruce Grain Complex
Wichita
Centrol
Paul DeBruce
DeBruce Grain
Kansas City
Howard Goin
Noel Najera
Victor M
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