Deb Oyler talks about some of the books available through the Imagination Library program at her Finney County United Way booth Tuesday at the Hot Spot Event Center during the Western Kansas Community Foundation Match Day. Oyler is the executive director of the local United Way. The various organizations and agencies to benefit from the day had booths set up to give individuals more information when making donations. BRAD NADING/GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM
BOSTON – Republican Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday he won’t seek a third term as governor of Massachusetts, where his party is bitterly split between supporters and foes of former President Donald Trump.
GENEVA – The U.N. migration agency says the coronavirus pandemic appears to have accelerated “hostile rhetoric” against migrants in the world and “radically altered” mobility, projecting in a new report that travel and other COVID-19-fighting restrictions could dampen migration worldwide as long as they remain.
BERLIN – A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich on Wednesday, injuring four people, one of them seriously, German authorities said. A column of smoke was seen rising from the site near the Donnersbergerbruecke station.
Councilman Andre Dickens wins Atlanta mayor race over Moore ATLANTA – City Council member Andre Dickens won a runoff election Tuesday to become Atlanta’s next mayor, riding a surge of support that powered him past the council’s current president, Felicia Moore, after finishing second to her in November. Moore had been the leading candidate by a wide margin in the first round of voting on Nov.
Grain Prices at Garden City Co-op Wheat: 7.98 Corn: 5.93 Milo: 5.73 Soybeans: 11.36 Schwieterman Inc. reported Chicago Live Cattle Futures December February April Last: 137.075 139.10 142.10 High: 137.425 139.75 142.625 Low: 136.525 138.40 141.55.
The following Kansas Lottery numbers were drawn Tuesday night: Mega Millions: 7-8-26-30-39-17; Megaplier: 2 Lucky for Life: 9-25-29-40-42-14 2 By 2: Red: 2-20; White: 22-25 Pick 3: Midday: 3-3-4; Evening: 5-3-3 Wednesday’s Powerball, Lotto America, Super Kansas Cash, 2 By 2 and Pick 3 numbers were not available as of press time..
SENIOR CENTER PINOCHLE Leo Smith won high in two tables of Senior Center Pinochle on Nov. 17 at the Senior Center of Finney County.
Coyotes are on the prowl in Kansas, but mainly in rural areas. “When we look at abundance trends, the population of coyotes has increased three-fold since the fur market crashed in the late 1980s,” Drew Ricketts, a wildlife management specialist with K-State Research and Extension, said in a release.
The sound of celebratory music, the light of candles and the smell of potato pancakes filed the Statehouse rotunda Monday, as Gov. Laura Kelly, Secretary of State Scott Schwab and a host of Jewish leaders lit a ceremonial menorah in honor of Hanukkah.