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LEADER&TIMES
OVERTIME
LIBERAL, HEIGHTS
COMBINE FOR FIVE
OVERTIMES
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Liberal homecoming court
is, from left, Alfredo
Banuelos, Emma Galindo,
Dennis Nava, Karen
Banuelos, Fall Queen
Maria Nunez, flower girl
Yazlene Martinez,
Homecoming Queen
Carolina Limon,
Homecoming King King
Daniel Rivera, crown
bearer Bren Kappelmann,
Fall King Alejandro
Gutierez, Timothy
Fitzgerald, Victoria Rios,
Sylman Pando and
Katherine Covert.
SCCC/ATS announces
cast list for spring
musical, Hairspray
Special to the Leader & Times
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Mentoring matters
in Kansas
Celebrating five years of keeping
Kansas youth safe through
background check grant funding
heart
champions
of
Daniel Rivera flashes his rock star sign to the crowd after Timothy
Fitzgerald places the crown on his head during Homecoming festivities
Friday in The Big House. L&T photos/Earl Watt
great, Rivera said.
Fitzgerald then led the Redskins to a
triple overtime win over Hays to move
Pancake
Board
presents
Salleys: The evolution
Baby Cakes Award
of a legacy
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Wrongfully convicted
Kansan seeks videotaped
interrogations
TOPEKA (AP) A Kansas man who spent
nearly 16 years in prison for a killing his brother later
admitted to testified for a measure that would
require law enforcement to record some interrogations.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and other law
enforcement groups oppose the measure, which
mandates recorded interrogations of suspects
arrested for capital murder, first-degree murder and
second-degree murder.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports a House
committee Thursday heard testimony from Floyd
Bledsoe, who was wrongfully convicted in the 1999
murder of Camille Arfmann in Oskaloosa. His
brother, Tom, originally admitted to the crime but
later recanted his confessions, which were not
recorded.
Floyd Bledsoe told the committee he might not
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By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times
Looking around Liberal and
Seward County, its hard to find
something the families of Bill and
E.J. Salley have not touched.
While E.J.s family had lived in
the area even earlier than that, the
heritage of the families began in the
early 1900s.
The family of William Edward
Salley from Missouri moved to
Kingman County in 1908, and a
short time later, the oldest son, Ira
R. Salley, came to Liberal and
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The Pancake Day Baby Cakes Award this year goes to Jovany Abel
Bustos, who was born at 7:28 a.m. on Feb. 10, the day after Pancake Day,
to Sara Valezuela and Joseph Bustos. He weighed 7 lbs., 5 oz. and was 20
inches long. The Baby Cakes award is presented each year to the first
baby to arrive on Pancake Day, or the closest day after, at Southwest
Medical Center. Jovany received a miniature chef's hat embroidered with
the Pancake Day logo, a plaque, and a basket of baby necessities from
the Pancake Day Board. In addition, the family received child
development information and a gift of childrens board books from
Russell Child Development Center. Courtesy photo
Police: Shooting at
Phoenix-area school
was a murder-suicide
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
and PAUL DAVENPORT
Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. A
shooting at a suburban Phoenix
high school that killed two 15year-old girls and caused panic
among parents was a murdersuicide, police said.
Police announced that a
suicide note was found at the
scene of the shooting Friday
morning near the cafeteria area
of Independence High School in
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