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“I wanted a little better, especially in front of the home crowd, but I just didn't have it today, I guess.”

It's hard for Trisa Nickoley to grasp the reality that her running career - the college portion of it anyway - is rapidly coming to an end. via Topeka Capital-Journal

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“I am just suggesting you mix it all together and plant it all in the same field.”

Blends are consistently the fourth leading variety planted in Kansas. Jim Shroyer, K-State Extension agronomy specialist, listed several reasons for this fact in his presentation at the Small Grain Solutions ... via High Plains Journal

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“The group isn't all sadness. People there tell you you will have joy again. 'Hope' is a very important word in our meetings.”

In July 1992, Susan and Gary Chan sat in their car outside of the building where a Compassionate Friends meeting was being held and debated whether to go in. via Topeka Capital-Journal

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WHO : Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA officer whose identity was disclosed in 2003, will address the 21st annual Media and the Law Seminar - "Fourth Estate or Fifth Wheel: Government Curbs on Free Speech" ... via The University of Kansas

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“We've done our work at this point”

Revenue estimators projected Wednesday that the state would bring in $130 million less than expected over the next two years -- in part because of the federal economic stimulus package. via The Wichita Eagle

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What do you think mega-mergers such as the Delta-Northwest Airlines deal will do to air fares? 1. They'll go way up. via WIBW-TV Topeka

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Even before the killing of 33 people on the Virginia Tech campus a year ago today, northeast Kansas universities were upgrading their security systems. via Topeka Capital-Journal

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“Safety is not an accident; youth can take specific actions to be safer drivers and passengers”

To encourage teen drivers to talk to each other about the importance of traffic safety, the Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansas Department of Transportation have formed a new scholarship contest to promote Youth ... via Kansas Highway Patrol

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Published Monday, April 7, 2008 at 10:52 a.m. CDT Shawnee County emergency management director Dave Sterbenz will represent the county on the Northeast Regional Council, which administers federal homeland ... via Topeka Capital-Journal

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“It doesn't seem to get any easier”

One day in October 2006, Ann Mock got a call at her home in the south-central Kansas town of Harper from her 23-year-old son serving in Iraq. via Topeka Capital-Journal

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