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Digging it

Sat, 02/23/2013 - 1:36am
Worried that she would get stuck in a foot of snow that fell on Salina, Connice Olsen sought help from the city of Salina's Neighborhood Services department Friday morning. "I called the number that was in the (Salina Journal) and a lady said ...
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Snow keeps road crews, law enforcement busy

Fri, 02/22/2013 - 4:01am
Hazardous road conditions kept state and local road crews busy and forced the Kansas Department of Transportation to close Interstate Highway 70 after a storm dumped more than 10 inches of snow across the area Wednesday and Thursday. "This storm ...
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Abilene mourns landmark

Fri, 02/22/2013 - 4:00am
ABILENE -- "It's a snowy day in Abilene," said Glenda Purkis, director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, as she answered the phone Thursday morning. "I usually answer the phone, 'It's a great day in Abilene,' but I co ...
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Snow keeps road crews, law enforcement busy

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:01pm
Hazardous road conditions kept state and local road crews busy and forced the Kansas Department of Transportation to close Interstate Highway 70 after a storm dumped more than 10 inches of snow across the area Wednesday and Thursday. "This storm ...
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Abilene mourns landmark

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:00pm
ABILENE -- "It's a snowy day in Abilene," said Glenda Purkis, director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, as she answered the phone Thursday morning. "I usually answer the phone, 'It's a great day in Abilene,' but I co ...
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Heavy snow greets commuters in NCKS

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 7:53am
Salina is blanketed and heavy snow was falling shortly before 7 Thursday morning while folks were reporting to work. In the downtown area, front-end loaders and pickup trucks equipped with blades were working to remove about 6 inches of snow from par ...
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Heavy snow greets commuters in NCKS

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 7:53am
Salina is blanketed and heavy snow was falling shortly before 7 Thursday morning while folks were reporting to work. In the downtown area, front-end loaders and pickup trucks equipped with blades were working to remove about 6 inches of snow from par ...
Categories: Local News

Kirby House damaged by fire

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 7:17am
ABILENE -- The historic Kirby House, 205 N.E. Third in downtown Abilene, was extensively damaged by fire Wednesday night. Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours in frigid temperatures as dozens of people huddled around, watching flames eat ...
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Heavy snow greets commuters in NCKS

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 1:53am
Salina is blanketed and heavy snow was falling shortly before 7 Thursday morning while folks were reporting to work. In the downtown area, front-end loaders and pickup trucks equipped with blades were working to remove about 6 inches of snow from par ...
Categories: Local News

Heavy snow greets commuters in NCKS

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 1:53am
Salina is blanketed and heavy snow was falling shortly before 7 Thursday morning while folks were reporting to work. In the downtown area, front-end loaders and pickup trucks equipped with blades were working to remove about 6 inches of snow from par ...
Categories: Local News

Kirby House damaged by fire

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 1:17am
ABILENE -- The historic Kirby House, 205 N.E. Third in downtown Abilene, was extensively damaged by fire Wednesday night. Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours in frigid temperatures as dozens of people huddled around, watching flames eat ...
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Kirby House damaged by fire

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 7:50pm
ABILENE — The historic Kirby House, 205 N.E. Third in downtown Abilene, was extensively damaged by fire Wednesday night. Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours in frigid temperatures as dozens of people huddled around, watching ...
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Kirby House damaged by fire

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 1:50pm
ABILENE — The historic Kirby House, 205 N.E. Third in downtown Abilene, was extensively damaged by fire Wednesday night. Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours in frigid temperatures as dozens of people huddled around, watching ...
Categories: Local News

Guardian angels

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 4:00am
It was the kind of sight that can bring on true panic in a parent. Veanna Loucks had just picked up a take-out pizza Friday evening when she glanced at her children in the back seat and saw something frightening. Brody, who is nearly 2, was stiff and ...
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Guardian angels

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 10:00pm
It was the kind of sight that can bring on true panic in a parent. Veanna Loucks had just picked up a take-out pizza Friday evening when she glanced at her children in the back seat and saw something frightening. Brody, who is nearly 2, was stiff and ...
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Hell on water

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 9:59pm
Friendships forged in grade school survived a cruise that began as planned but ended in a hellish ordeal. Eight women who spent their childhoods in Osborne collected much more to reminisce about well into their golden years after a cruise to Mexico w ...
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Hell on water

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 7:59pm
Friendships forged in grade school survived a cruise that began as planned but ended in a hellish ordeal. Eight women who spent their childhoods in Osborne collected much more to reminisce about well into their golden years after a cruise to Mexico w ...
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Brotherly(-in-law) love

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 1:44am
Doug Alt had a tonsillectomy at age 4 or 5, the only time besides birth in his 62 years that he'd been a hospital patient. But when he heard that his brother-in-law Lewis Smith, of Phillipsburg, was on a kidney transplant list, he had a premoniti ...
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Brotherly(-in-law) love

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 11:44pm
Doug Alt had a tonsillectomy at age 4 or 5, the only time besides birth in his 62 years that he'd been a hospital patient. But when he heard that his brother-in-law Lewis Smith, of Phillipsburg, was on a kidney transplant list, he had a premoniti ...
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A dress-up event

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 9:59pm
MINNEAPOLIS -- This past year, Scott McGrath didn't run the 5K as fast as he hoped. The Hays man blamed it on an ankle injury, but the fact he also was running in a red dress might have been a factor. "I slit the dress up the side to get a b ...
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