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NPR triggers terrorist alarm with 'fertilizer'
BEVERLY HILLS - God bless America, and how's everybody? NPR asked its audience to call Congress and fight GOP efforts to end federal funding Friday, saying NPR gets criticized as often for being too conservative as they get criticized for being too liberal. The phones rang off the hook. The FBI had just issued a warning asking Americans to watch out for anybody using fertilizer for anything besides lawn care. President Obama held a press ...
Pederast suspect leads cops to himself
Fortunately for police, disguising his e-mail address did not occur to him. Kyle D. Gore, 23, of Naperville, Ill., was arrested for allegedly downloading child pornography on his computer. Police identified Gore as the man trying to find people online who could help him have encounters with children, using the address "kdg31087@aol.com." It was an unimaginative identifier for someone of Gore's initials and born, as Gore was, in 1987. Are those shoes in your ...
America is too much like Sheen -- Browns
Watching Charlie Sheen's outbursts is a great entertainment for Americans. Here is a guy who has it all, fame, fortune, a great career and it is all crashing in on him because of addiction. We all know that Charlie Sheen is one 911 call from the morgue. He has made the ambulance trip before, and he doesn't see it coming. Denial is a classic symptom of drug addiction. Here is Charlie in his own words ...
It’s Duke vs. North Carolina today in ACC title game
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Nolan Smith refused to let a toe injury stop him. Virginia Tech couldn't do it, either.
AP TOP 25
No. 1 Ohio State 68, Michigan 61 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jared Sullinger had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and No. 1 Ohio State boosted its bid for the NCAA tournament's top overall seed with a 68-61 victory over rival Michigan in the Big Ten semifinals Saturday. The regular-season league champions and defending tournament champs will play in a record-tying third straight championship game Sunday against sixth-seeded Penn State. Illinois also played in three ...
Big 12 Tournament Championship
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The loudest, heartiest cheers of the night were for Thomas Robinson, even though five of his Kansas teammates scored more points.
Cougars rebound for third
HAYS - Playing for third place at the Class 1A-Division II basketball tournament is a hollow feeling.
Fine replicas
Barton Community College Executive Director of Institutional Advancement Darnell Holopirek and Hoisington USD 431 Superintendent Bill Lowry show the Sandzén reproductions that the district recently received to take the place of the original pieces sold at auction last summer. These high-quality photo reproductions take the place of the originals, sold for $170,000. Artist Birger Sandzén painted the original watercolors and donated them to the school. Money raised will be used for scholarships. Two plaques ...
Area briefs for March 13
Program showcases Costa Rica and its rainforest wilflife
False alarm keeps Barton County officers busy
A man reported an overturned truck on the highway on the curves west of Hoisington at 2:20 a.m. Thursday. Patrolmen thought they were looking for an injury accident, so Hoisington Emergency Medical Service was also dispatched. Nothing was found, so all curves in the county were checked by Ellinwood, Hoisington and BCSO units.
CKMC continues partnership with eye banks
Central Kansas Medical Center has a long history of collaborating with Heartland Lions Eye Banks to secure sight-saving corneal-tissue donations. And this relationship will continue after CKMC's name changes to St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center on May 1.
For March 13, 2011
Barton County Sheriff A Chevy Blazer driven by Garrett Hayes was northbound on SE 110 Ave. at 7:40 a.m. Thursday when he reportedly ran the stop sign, hitting a van driven by Cassandre Batchman, who was westbound on SE 30 Road. No ambulance was dispatched, but Batchman sustained a small cut to her thumb and the van went in the ditch. A BCSO patrol car struck a deer in the 1300 block ...
Kelly Jean Phelps 1964 - 2011
CENTRALIA, WASH. - Centralia resident Kelly Jean Phelps died at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Wash., on March 9, after a long battle with breast cancer.
Christopher Louis Divis 1984 - 2011
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Christopher Louis Divis was born July 31, 1984, at Sioux City, Iowa. He was confirmed April 26, 1998, at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton, Iowa. Chris attended Maple Valley Anthon-Oto High School and graduated in the class of 2002. While in high school, he worked as a Certified Nurse's Aide, and most recently was training to become a Licensed Practical Nurse at Western Iowa Technical Community College. Employed at ...
Randall Eugene Oliver 1921 - 2011
WICHITA - Randall Eugene Oliver, 89, passed away March 11 at Lakewood Senior Living Center in Wichita. He was born Sept. 15, 1921, in Madison, the son of Willis Monroe and Amy Freelove Holland Oliver. He graduated from Madison High School in 1939. He retired from the U. S. Navy and had served during World War II in the Pacific.
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