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Leadership Parsons takes on park project
By The Sun Staff The Leadership Parsons class from the Parsons Chamber of Commerce is going to raise money for and contribute labor to improvements at the rookie field at the Babe Ruth diamonds in...
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City to look at cutbacks
By Jamie Willey Parsons Sun Parsons city commissioners on Monday will consider making funding cuts to several outside agencies supported by the city. City Manager Fred Gress is recommending the cu...
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LCHS students need money for trip
By Colleen Surridge Parsons Sun ALTAMONT — Labette County High School drama students continue to work toward raising funds to participate in the 2010 American High School Theatre Festival in Edi...
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Chetopa students help observatory
From Chetopa High School CHETOPA — Chetopa High School physics instructor Tim Blankenship wanted to illuminate his students more through their educational experience while meeting state standard...
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Man faces more than 70 charges
By The Sun Staff A Labette County man made a first appearance Friday on an attempted aggravated robbery charge, as well as a nearly 20-page indictment alleging 72 charges in a separate case. Jeffe...
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Neosho Democrats The Neosho Democratic Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the basement meeting room, 100 S. Main, Erie. Refreshments and door prizes. Story Hour Miss Willie will read “The Ni...
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GPDA, firm discuss plant cleanup
By Colleen Surridge Parsons Sun Following the transfer from the U.S. Army of 2,600 acres of clean property, the Great Plains Development Authority’s focus is now on environmental cleanup of portio...
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Robbery fails at Pumpin’ Pete’s
By The Sun Staff A Neodesha man is in custody after he allegedly attempted to rob a clerk at Pumpin’ Pete’s, 116 S. 32nd, late Tuesday night. Parsons Police Chief John Keele said a man armed with ...
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Guthridge students win Elks essay contest
By Colleen Surridge Parsons Sun Standing before students at Guthridge Elementary School who were assembled in the gymnasium Thursday, Parsons Elks Lodge member J.J. Johnson expressed how proud the...
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Court convicts man of assault
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By The Sun Staff A Parsons man was convicted Thursday of aggravated assault. Kenneth D. Leroy, born in 1963, 2604 Stevens, faced two cases in Labette County District court, one alleging aggravate...
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Farm history meeting The Southeast Kansas Farm History Commission will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Parsons Research Center conference room on the campus of Parsons State Hospital and Trai...
CST brings workers from around world
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By Jamie Willey Parsons Sun The parent company of a local tank manufacturer brought 28 people from its global sales staff to Parsons on Wednesday. The sales staff and representatives of CST Indu...
Jobless rate rises in Kansas
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Unemployment throughout the state increased by nearly 1 percent in January, while the jobless rate increase in Labette County exceeded 1 percent. The Kansas unemployment rate rose to 7.1 percent i...
CST brings workers from around world
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By Jamie Willey Parsons Sun The parent company of a local tank manufacturer brought 28 people from its global sales staff to Parsons on Wednesday. The sales staff and representatives of CST Indu...
Physician begins practice in Parsons
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From Labette Health Dr. Javine Horani, a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, has joined Labette Health and is now seeing patients. Horani has been in private practice in Colorado Springs, ...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, along with Gina Owens from Seattle, Wash.,left,  whose daughter, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care,  Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill. center, and others, arrive for a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.


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AP - A 31-year-old mother from Colorado was one of seven Muslims arrested this week in Ireland in an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, the woman's parents said Friday.
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Pakistan's army troops remove a dead body from the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a doctor said, underscoring the relentless security threat to the nation.


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Thai anti-government demonstrators converge at a check point in Wang Noi, Thailand, Saturday, March 13, 2010.  Thousands of 'Red Shirt' demonstrators were expected to converge on Bangkok this weekend for a massive rally.  (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city.


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