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Cessna Aircraft Co. is instituting rolling furloughs for 200 workers at its plant in Independence, Kan., as the Wichita-based aircraft-maker wrestles with what it calls “a supplier issue” on its Mustang line ...

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Wichita enacts steeper fees for false security and fire alarms

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Published June 8, 2010 at 12:34 p.m.

False alarms on home and business security systems will cost users more money starting Aug. 1 ... And that’s expected to help recover some of the costs the city incurs responding to about 25,000 alarms a year — 98 percent of which are false calls ... Wichita City Council members voted 4-3 to approve the new rules. Council members Sue Schlapp, Jim Skelton and Paul Gray opposed it ...

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Teen Arrested After Attack On Neighbor

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Published June 8, 2010 at 12:27 p.m.

Wichita police arrested a 13-year-old girl Monday after they say she attempted to stab her neighbor ...

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Mayor's Family Bike Day Saturday in Riverside Park

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Published June 8, 2010 at 12:02 p.m.

WICHITA — As part of a campaign to promote healthy living, the city of Wichita is inviting cyclists to a morning of rides and demonstrations in Central Riverside Park on Saturday ... The first Mayor's Family Bike Day will take place from 9 a.m. to noon in the park's main parking lot. It is the second event in Mayor Carl Brewer's 2010 initiative on the importance of individual and community health ... The event will feature guided bike rides along the Arkansas River bike path, bicycle

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Delano establishment to be restaurant and entertainment complex in addition to a bar

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Published June 8, 2010 at 10:32 a.m.

WICHITA — A few Delano dwellers have expressed concern over the new business coming to the former Davis Furniture space, but Chris Ruffin says not to worry ... "It's going to be a restaurant and entertainment facility and a bar," says Ruffin, who is director of real estate for his father Phil Ruffin's Ruffin Properties. "It's not going to be just a bar." ... The 15,000-square-foot space will be divided into a restaurant and a bar ...

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USD 259 to host construction fair for minority companies

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Published June 8, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.

Wichita Public Schools will conduct a construction fair later this month to inform minority and woman-owned contractors about upcoming school bond work ...

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Via Christi hospital to open Aug. 2

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Published June 8, 2010 at 9:47 a.m.

Via Christi Health will open its $93 million west Wichita hospital on Aug. 2 ...

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USD 259 to sue three Wichita companies over work at Allison Middle

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Published June 8, 2010 at 9:15 a.m.

For the second time in three months, Wichita Public Schools will sue local companies over what it considers substandard renovation work from the 2000 bond issue ...

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Showers, thunderstorms possible later today in Wichita area

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Published June 8, 2010 at 7:42 a.m.

More showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for the Wichita metropolitan area this morning and again later today and tonight, forecasters say ... Highs should reach the upper 80s or low 90s under partly cloudy skies today, before the storms roll in. Some of the storms could be strong, forecasters caution, with winds of up to 60 miles an hour and quarter-sized hail. Winds can be expected to gust above 30 mph ... Overnight lows should settle in the low 70s, with intermittent showers

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Wichita lawyer faces Rwanda threat

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Published June 8, 2010 at 7:40 a.m.

A timely letter from Kansas may have kept a Wichita lawyer out of jail last week in central Africa ... Kurt Kerns has traveled to Rwanda during the past year to interview witnesses in a federal case in Wichita involving a Kansas man accused of participating in that country's genocide 16 years ago ... As part of that case, Kerns had consulted with Peter Erlinder, a law professor from Minnesota, whose opinions on the genocide were critical of the current Rwandan government ...

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