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Casey
Donahew
Band hits
Hugoton

SPLIT IN HAYSVILLE

Lady Redskins drop close match to

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LPD warns
of back to
school safety

By ELLY GRIMM
Leader & Times

Liberal Police Department

The Casey Donahew Band

frequently does shows throughout
Kansas, and Sept. 10, the Hugoton
area will have the chance to
experience seeing him in person.
Donahew will be one of the acts on
the bill for the High Plains Music
Festival Sept. 10 at Dirtona Raceway
in Hugoton. He will also be joined by
fellow musicians Clare Dunn, Mike
Ryan and the Chance Anderson
Band to round out the evenings
musical entertainment.
It's our first time in that town, but
we've spent a lot of time in Kansas,
especially over the past eight years,

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A group

supporting a state question to allow the medicinal
use of marijuana in Oklahoma is rallying at the
state Capitol.
More than 100 people chanted let us vote
during the rally Tuesday in the buildings second
floor rotunda.
The group Oklahomans for Change wants
elected officials, including Gov. Mary Fallin and
Attorney General Scott Pruitt, to know there is
widespread support for legalizing marijuana for
medicinal purposes. Supporters also have been
critical of Pruitts rewrite of the language that will
appear on the ballot.
A pro-marijuana group gathered more than
67,000 signatures within 90 days to qualify the
medical marijuana question for the ballot, although
the proposal likely wont appear until 2018.
State officials say the group waited too long to
get the question on the November ballot.

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Feds to distribute
$53 million to states
to fight opioids

Pro-medical marijuana
group rallies at
Oklahoma Capitol

Dress Like a Farmer Relay brings out

young farmers at Five State Fair Page 5

The new school year has

officially begun. There are
also two new schools and
several new school zones
with which to become
familiar. The Liberal Police
Department will be closely
monitoring traffic at these
locations.
Here are some tips to
follow to help keep everyone
safe:
Children old enough to
walk or bike to school should

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WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration says it will distribute $53 million to 44 states
in an effort to curb opioid abuse.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia
Burwell says the funding will focus on reducing
over-prescribing of pain killers, increasing access to
treatment and making sure the antidote naloxone is
widely available.
The administration is also calling on Congress to
provide $1.1 billion in new money, saying legislation
recently signed into law didnt do enough to expand
treatment. That bill authorized $181 million in new
spending.
Steve Williams, the mayor of Huntington, West
Virginia, said in a conference call announcing the
funding that opioid abuse is so common he carries
an overdose reversal kit with him. He says federal
funding is urgently needed so people seeking
treatment dont have to wait months.

Farmers in training

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Kansas to use nearly $1.2M

in federal funds to fight Zika
TOPEKA (AP) Kansas officials say they will
use nearly $1.2 million in federal funds to fight
the spread of the Zika virus.
Eleven people in the state have been infected
with the virus, which is primarily spread through
mosquitoes, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.
The state has received the funds under three
cooperative agreements with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. The funds are

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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach responds to

questions outside the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
after delivering an argument in the legal fight over how the
state of Kansas enforces its proof-of-citizenship
requirement for voters who register at motor vehicle
offices on Tuesday in Denver. The case was before the
Appeals Court after a federal judge in May temporarily
blocked Kansas from disenfranchising about 18,000 who
registered to vote at motor vehicle offices without
providing citizenship paperwork such as birth certificates
or naturalization papers. AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Kansas Supreme
Court asked to order
grand jury on Kobach
Steven Davis, a Lawrence Democrat, wants an
investigation into the Republican secretary of
states handling of online voter registrations
By JOHN HANNA
AP PoliticalWriter

TOPEKA A former legislative candidate has asked the

Kansas Supreme Court to order the appointment of a grand jury
to investigate Secretary of State Kris Kobach after a county
judge rejected the request.
Steven Davis, a Lawrence Democrat, wants an investigation
into the Republican secretary of states handling of online voter
registrations. Davis gathered enough signatures under a Kansas
law that allows citizens to petition for grand juries, but Douglas

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Help Wanted signs go unanswered

at some small businesses
By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
AP BusinessWriter

NEW YORK Small

businesses that cant find the
right people to fill their job
openings may be suffering
from a Great Recession
hangover.
Their futile searches may
partly reflect a healthier
economy more people have
jobs, reducing the pool of
applicants and the success rate
of broad strategies like online
job postings. For some, the
challenge is finding staff with
very specific technology skills.
Changes in the workforce can
also make it difficult, especially
among younger people who
may prefer big cities and have
different work goals. Nearly a
fifth of small business owners
surveyed by American Express
this spring said finding the
right staff is their biggest
challenge while expanding
their companies.
But owners can also make
life difficult for themselves.
Some hold to inflexible models
developed during the recession
like posting complex jobs for
relatively low pay and many
candidates say no because they

get better offers. Some

employers are still trying to hire
one person to do the work of
two or three, a tactic that
might have worked several
years ago but not now, says
Steve Lindner, CEO of The
WorkPlace Group, a recruiting
firm based in Florham Park,
New Jersey.
Youre asking for way too
much versus what youre
willing to pay, Lindner says.
The recovering economy
helped many entrepreneurs
launch companies, but also has
made hiring tougher in some
areas. Paul Turanos 3-year-old
restaurant, Cook, has six
openings including a bartender,
servers and a sous chef. The

Boston area is filled with

upscale restaurants like Cook.
Its frustrating because I
dont know how to change it,
Turano says. Weve tried
agencies, online, back to basics
like hanging a sign in our
window that says, Come join
our team.
Cook offers incentives like
vacation and a retirement plan.
But Turano is also up against
changing attitudes many
people he interviews decide
they dont want to do the hard
work a restaurant requires.
The ripple effect from
business closures during the
recession has also complicated

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