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Crimestoppers Murder Mystery - Steven Norton
Found: 3 Days 43 Minutes ago
KAKE 10 News - A 14 year-old sniper shooting in Wichita remains unsolved and now Wichita Police are asking for new information...
Rain extinguishes hopes for bonfire
Found: 3 Days 1 Hour 51 Minutes ago
The Mirror - A bonfire that was planned for 8:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, Sept. 3 as part of homecoming activities was canceled because of muddy conditions
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Bonfire set for 8:30 p.m., weather permitting
Found: 3 Days 8 Hours 49 Minutes ago
The Mirror - A bonfire is planned for 8:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, Sept. 3 as part of homecoming activities. The bonfire, if weather permits, will be held in the valley southwest of Beatty Field on the other side of the high school acess road.
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Newcomers Not ‘New’ To Nelson
Found: 3 Days 12 Hours 45 Minutes ago
Osawatomie Graphic - Officially, they?re categorized as newcomers....
Jayhawk-Linn Volleyball Goes 5-1 At Home Invite
Found: 3 Days 12 Hours 45 Minutes ago
Osawatomie Graphic - The Jayhawk-Linn volleyball team reached the Class 3A state tournament for the first time in 23 years last season. It has aspirations of returning again this year....
Buffalo Spikers Show Heart
Found: 3 Days 12 Hours 45 Minutes ago
Osawatomie Graphic - The Prairie View volleyball team trailed 23-11 in the second game against Southeast in Saturday?s Jayhawk-Linn Invitational. Southeast was only two points away from forcing a deciding game....
Zogg Sisters Take To Ring
Found: 3 Days 12 Hours 46 Minutes ago
Osawatomie Graphic - Holding a 15-pound leather championship belt that sags down from her waist, 9-year-old Amy Zogg and her two sisters, Carina and Aubri, strike fear into the hearts of others when they?re in their fighting stances....
First-Teamers Shine For Prairie View
Found: 3 Days 12 Hours 46 Minutes ago
Osawatomie Graphic - Thunderstorms rolled into the area, cutting short Prairie View?s annual green-white scrimmage Thursday, limiting the varsity players to six series....
Technical college searching for ways to fund program
Found: 3 Days 15 Hours 30 Minutes ago
Wichita Eagle - Technical college searching for ways to fund programWith more than 200 students on its waiting list, the Wichita Area Technical College's adult basic education program is struggling to find a solution to its funding woes.Program staff and classes have been cut in the past two years, while demand for adult literacy and GED testing services grows, program officials said.A 2004 legislative mandate to separate technical schools from K-12 school districts caused the financial rift because the Wichita school district was no longer required to fund it.The split cost WATC's adult education program $827,000 to $1.5 million a year -- money that the school district generated through property taxes. The district cut off WATC starting in the 2007-08 school year....
Arena planners urge more parking
Found: 3 Days 15 Hours 34 Minutes ago
Wichita Eagle - Planners recommend Sedgwick County gain control of 2,400 parking spaces within four blocks of Intrust Bank Arena -- including 753 at the state office building -- as a partial solution to arena parking.Peak parking demand -- during sellout concerts and college and pro basketball games at the arena -- would require 5,000 spaces, based on a study by Walker Parking Consultants.For more than 90 percent of events, 2,667 parking spaces would be enough; for more than half of those events, 1,333 spaces would be enough, Scott Knebel, a principal planner with the Metropolitan Area Planning Department, told commissioners at their weekly meeting with staff Tuesday.Commissioner Tim Norton said he thinks the county -- and city -- should plan for more parking in expectation of redevelopment downtown. He advocates building a parking deck similar to the one at Gander Mountain at WaterWalk."The place where I think it should go is over in front of the maintenance barn"on Waterman, Norton said. "There's 200-plus, maybe 300 parking spaces there now. There's some additional space south of that right now that could be added on to, and I'd put a deck over that whole thing. That instantly would give you between 1,200 and 1,500 parking spaces. I think that serves a lot of masters."...
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