Fort Scott, Kansas · Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Events

As the Haitian people continue to recover the damage cause by the Jan. 12 earthquake, many local citizens are doing their part to help. According to Bourbon County Chapter of the American Red Cross Executive Director Whendi...
On Thursday, Feb. 4, Roy Allen Slates, 55, of Nevada, turned himself in to the Vernon County Sheriff's Office in response to two felony complaints filed in the Circuit Court of Vernon County relating to the Nov. 9, 2009,...
Six months after her first inquiry about the Rotary International Youth Exchange, Kelly Clow received confirmation that she will be going to Germany to live for the coming school year. Clow's interest in foreign study began...
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State news
  • Boeing's 747-8 freighter completes first flight
    EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter - the biggest plane the company has ever built - successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned....
  • Kan. House panel considers halting tax exemptions
    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas House committee is considering whether legislators should be allowed to grant new exemptions on state sales and property taxes....
  • Audit: Merged districts could save Kan. millions
    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Consolidating public school districts in Kansas could save millions of taxpayer dollars, although not enough to solve the state's budget crisis this year, according to a new report released Monday....
  • Kan. sec of state to leave for private sector job
    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas' top elections official announced Monday that he's resigning to take a top job at a Kansas City-area company that builds and manages government Web sites....
  • Defense seeks new trial in abortion shooting death
    WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Attorneys for a man convicted of murdering a high-profile abortion provider have asked a judge for a new trial or their client's acquittal, arguing the judge was wrong when he failed to instruct jurors that they could consider the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter....
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Quakes
Most recently recorded earthquakes in the Central U.S. from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (Times in Central):

Mag.WhenWhere
1.902/07 21:157 mi WSW of New Madrid, MO
1.302/07 20:547 mi WSW of New Madrid, MO
1.602/07 20:457 mi WSW of New Madrid, MO
1.602/07 06:227 mi WSW of New Madrid, MO
1.202/06 20:521 mi NNE of Gladstone, NJ
1.202/05 05:211 mi SE of South Cleveland, TN
1.502/05 04:501 mi NE of Peapack, NJ
1.402/04 05:185 mi W of Parma, MO
3.302/04 03:4112 mi NNE of Vega, TX
1.502/03 06:186 mi NNW of Tiptonville, TN
1.502/03 04:063 mi SSW of Dell, AR
2.502/01 17:4310 mi SSE of Arcadia, OK