Kans for Kids Fighting Cancer Foundation has announced that a fund has been established for 23-month-old Kaito Richter, Great Bend, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. He is undergoing chemotherapy treatment in Wichita. He is the son of Amber Beverley and Nick Richter, Great Bend.
A Veterans Service Representative from the Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs will be at the Great Bend Kansasworks center, 1025 Main Street, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday to assist veterans and their families in applying for VA benefits. The Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs is a state agency that provides free assistance to veterans and their families with veterans' benefits. Call 785-625-8532 for more information.
Veterans families and guests are invited to bring children and grandchildren to visit Santa at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3111 at 2 p.m. on Saturday. It was previously reported open to the public. The Tribune regrets the error.
Dear Editor, Sixty-nine years ago, the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the sky over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was filled with Japanese planes. When the last of the attacking aircraft rejoined the Japanese fleet, 1,178 law wounded and 2,403 lay dead or dying. A great portion of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was in shambles. Thus began America's entry into World War II - five years that changed the world. The United States returned from World War ...
Dear Editor, I was wrong about Great Bend. It hasn't went to the dogs, it has went to the rich who want to make sure the rest of us are miserable and poor. You keep printing in the paper how normal Veterans Lake is. There is nothing normal and never will be as anyone driving down the street on Broadway to McKinley knows. Any one with a brain in their head knows that all those ...
When Ms. Nomatter Tagarira was sentenced to 39 months in jail for fraud, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and several officials were hoping to close the book on an embarrassing episode.
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate rose to near 10 percent. The national mood is grim. It used to be fun to sit and watch Donald Trump tell people they're fired but now it's like watching capital punishment on live television. President Obama spoke to troops in Afghanistan Friday, where he praised the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines but forgot the Coast Guard. ...
Kathryn Elaine Kimbrough, 54, of Great Bend, died Dec. 6 at her home. She was born Oct. 24, 1956, at Syracuse, the daughter of Loren and Peggy (Johnson) Thompson. She married Ronald Kimbrough on April 3, 1973, in Syracuse. She was a Kansas native with ties to California.
A juvenile motorist was involved in an injury accident on Maple St. at 9:25 a.m. Sunday. The driver was northbound in the 300 block and struck a parked vehicle in a yard at 314 Maple, continued north and hit a curb at Fifth and Maple, then struck the railroad tracks, a fence and a shed, then hit the residence at 917 Eighth St., and then an object flew in the air and struck ...
Those interested in forming a new Neighborhood Watch group in Great Bend are invited to attend a second preparatory/discussion meeting, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Rosewood Meeting Room, at 16th and Main. The first meeting of the group was held Nov. 17. Attendees were particularly concerned about a perceived large increase in incidence of burglaries in a northwest/midtown area of Great Bend. Scott Harper, with the Great Bend Police Department, ...
Two youths were taken to Russell Regional Hospital after two vehicles collided on Interstate 70 in Russell County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol online crash logs, Jeremy Lee Karnopp, 27, from Hill City, was driving a Chrysler Sebring convertible and Tina Charon Goldsmith, 34, from Glen St. Mary, Fla., was driving a Chevy van at 9 p.m. Sunday; both were westbound when Karnopp's car, which was in the left lane, ...
Barton County Sheriff A vehicle hit a deer in the 900 block of NE 100 Ave., three miles west and 1.5 miles south of Claflin, shortly before 6 p.m. on Friday. A vehicle hit a deer on U.S. 281 at mile marker 105 (by Schremmer Auction) at 6:18 p.m. Friday. A burglary at 625 U.S. 56 was reported Saturday. Someone broke into an abandoned house and stole items out of it ...
CLAFLIN - Martina M. Luebbers, 92, died Dec. 5 at Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita. Born March 17, 1918, at Marienthal, she was the daughter of Martin and Anna (Lauber)Younger. She married Joseph Luebbers on May 3, 1949, at Hoisington. He died March 15, 1977. A longtime Claflin resident, coming from Hoisington, she was a homemaker and the Claflin librarian from 1971 to 1988.
PRATT - Basil L. "Bud" McManaman, 88, died Dec. 6 at South Wind Hospice in Pratt. He was born June 10, 1922, in Pratt, to Basil and Iva (Greenstreet) McManaman. He married Margaret Lou Patton in 1945, and a daughter, Candy was born to this union. She preceded him in death in 1948. He married Pauline Lawrenz on May 26, 1954, at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Pratt. She survives.
If the 2010 elections weren't bad enough for Democrats, here comes the "six-year itch." With the exception of Bill Clinton's second term, the party that controls the White House loses seats in congress six years into a presidency. But there's a gathering sense among Democratic consultants who work on congressional campaigns that their party could buck the trend in 2014 for a number of reasons, not least because Barack Obama is finally fired up and ...
Online chat host: Good morning, cyber pals. As you know, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the psychiatric "bible," is to be released this month. It will include "Internet-Use Disorder" - also referred to as Internet addiction - as a condition recommended for further psychiatric study. Our guest today is Dr. Adam Von Cybercruncher, America's leading authority on Internet addiction.
Power company and electrical contracting company crews were busy Wednesday morning cleaning up about a half-mile stretch of power poles north of Great Bend snapped and broken by violent winds that swept through the area Tuesday night.
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