ANTI SMOKING GROUPS IN KANSAS ARE TRYING TO GET KANSAS LEGISLATORS TO RAISE THE CIGARETTE TAX BY A DOLLAR. THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AND THREE OTHER ANTI SMOKING GROUPS PUT ADS IN SEVEN CITY’S PAPERS TODAY TO PUSH KANSANS TO CONTACT THEIR LAWMAKERS ABOUT SUPPORTING THE TAX INCREASE. THE TAX HIKE WILL RAISE AROUND 75-MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE STATE ALONG WITH POSSIBLY DISCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM SMOKING.
TWO NORTHEAST KANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE PROPOSED A MERGER. THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL DISCUSS MERGING THE SABETHA AND ACTELL DISTRICTS TOMORROW AT THEIR MONTHLY MEETING. IF THIS DOES PASS, THE RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICTS WILL VOTE MAY 25TH AND THE MERGER WILL TAKE EFFECT JULY FIRST. THE DISTRICT WILL BE BASED IN SABETHA.
A FORMER PASTOR IN LEAVENWORTH HAS BEEN SENTENCED FOR LYING ABOUT ARSON AT HIS CHURCH. MARVIN CLAY HAS THREE YEARS PROBATION AFTER HE ADMITTED LYING ABOUT A FIRE AT SUNFLOWER MUSSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH IN 2008. CARVA LEE WHITE HAD TOLD CLAY OF HER PLANS TO BURN THE CHURCH AND THE TWO PLANNED TO MAKE MONEY BY HIRING A CONTRACTOR WHO WOULD PAY THEM KICKBACKS DURING THE RENOVATIONS.
A TOPEKA MAN HAS BEEN GIVEN ALMOST 11 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR TRYING TO ROB A FEDERAL AGENT. 35-YEAR OLD PHILLIP WILLIAMS PLEADED GUILTY TO THREE DRUG CHARGES. WILLIAMS WENT WITH ANOTHER MAN TO A TOPEKA HOTEL TO SELL COCAINE AND A HANDGUN. THE PERSON HE WAS SELLING TO WAS AN UNDERCOVER AGENT WITH THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES. OFFICIALS SAY THE TWO MEN TRIED TO ROB THE AGENT AND TOOK HIS GUN.
A SECOND HERING IS SCHEDULED IN THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS DAY UNDERWEAR BOMBER. THE COURT SPOKESMAN SAYS IT SHOULDN’T LAST LONG AND UMAR FAROUK ABDULMATALLAB ISN’T EXPECTED TO BE THERE. HE IS IN FEDERAL PRISON IN MILAN MICHIGAN.
TRANSCRIPTS OF SIX AND A HALF HOURS OF AUDIO INTERVIEW OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY WILL BE OUT NEXT YEAR. THESE INTERVIEWS WERE DONE IN 1964 JUST MONTHS AFTER HER HUSTBAND WAS ASSASSINATED AND DONE BY HISTORIAN AND FAMILY FRIEND ARTHUR M SCHLESINGER JUNIOR. THE KENNEDY’S DAUGHTER CAROLINE WILL BE THE EDITOR AND WRITE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK. SHE DECIDED TO RELEASE THE INTERVIEWS SAYING “IT IS A PRIVILEGE FOR HER TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF HER PARENTS BY MAKING THE UNIQUE HISTORY AVAILABLE.”
CONAN O'BRIEN WILL BE BACK IN LATE NIGHT IN NOVEMBER. THE UN-NAMED SHOW WILL BE ON TBS TAKING GEORGE LOPEZ’S SPOT AT 10'O-CLOCK CENTRAL TIME AND PUSH HIM BACK TO 11. O'BRIEN HAS BEEN OFF THE AIR AFTER JAY LENO GOT HIS TONIGHT SHOW SPOT BACK ON NBC. HE WILL NOW BE COMPETING HEAD TO HEAD WITH LENO.
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