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The only thing more fun than being a first responder

at Ashleys Furniture HomeStore Saturday was being a

CHILD

of a
first responder
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County first responders

called into action for drill at
Arkalon Ethanol plant
The plant does safety drills
quarterly, and Clark said Saturday
mornings drill was the most
inclusive one conducted, having
included the fire department,
EMS, and the hospital
By ELLY GRIMM
Leader & Times

Emergency responders were called

to a fire having broken out in the area
of the Arkalon Ethanol plant at

around 10 a.m. Saturday.

It was not cause for worry among
the citizens of Liberal, however, as the
fire was merely a drill situation being
participated in by employees at the
plant. The idea for the drill came
about several weeks ago when staff at
the plant met with the Liberal
Emergency Planning Committee
about conducting it.
We threw out the idea with the
committee we wanted to do a fire
drill, it had been a little while since

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FSBC to host concert Saturday

Tickets are $10 in advance
and $15 at the door. Kids 7 to
12 can get in for $5, and
children 6 and under are free
By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times
One Christian group from Dallas
and another from Pine Bluff,
Arkansas, are headed to Liberal this

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Weather officials
say 8 tornadoes
hit State of
Kansas last week
WICHITA (AP) Weather officials say early
information shows that more than a half-dozen
tornadoes touched down in Kansas last week.
Damage surveys conducted by National Weather
Service meteorologists have preliminarily confirmed
eight tornadoes in Kansas on Thursday. One of the
tornadoes was an EF-3. No injuries were reported.
The Wichita Eagle reports officials are still
gathering information about tornadoes reported in
southeast Kansas on Thursday night, so totals could
change.
The strongest of Thursdays tornadoes touched
down in Saline County and stayed on the ground
for more than six miles, with peak winds of 140
miles an hour and was 140 yards wide.

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Fallin calls Trump

comments on women
totally unacceptable

Oklahoma Tax
Commission hires
new auditors,
increases salary
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The Oklahoma Tax
Commission is hiring new auditors and hiking their
pay in an effort to improve compliance with tax
codes and increase state revenue.
The Oklahoman reports that the commission
hopes to bring in more than $50 million in new
revenue by tightening enforcement. The plan
comes as state government continues to suffer from
budget challenges.
The commission has hired 20 new auditors so far
and is seeking 33 more. Commission spokeswoman
Paula Ross says starting salaries have risen from
about $2,200 a month to about $2,700.
A bill approved this year ordered the commission
to find and decrease fraud, increase its audit staff to
catch people failing to file their taxes or underreporting what they owe, and ensure proper reporting
and collection of gross production taxes.

weekend, and a group from a local

church will take part in the concert
as well.
Visionz of Destiny from Dallas
and Revived from Pine Bluff, along
with Pastor Washington and the
Girls from Liberals Heaven Open
Gates Ministry, will perform
Saturday evening at First Southern
Baptist Church.
Demetrious Werner, daughter of

Chancellor: KU cant ban

concealed guns in sensitive areas
The governing Kansas Board of Regents
has directed the universities to develop
more detailed policies by October for the
safe storage and handling of guns on
campus, and to determine which buildings
will see beefed-up security
LAWRENCE (AP) The University of Kansas
chancellor knows firing a gun on campus areas with
pressurized gas cylinders, rocket fuel and other
combustibles might be disastrous, though she frets
the school still cant ban firearms in such places.
In Kansas, where gun owners can carry
concealed without a license or training, public

universities as of July 2017 must allow anyone 21 or

older to have concealed firearms on campus in
buildings that dont have security measures,
including metal detectors an option widely
considered cost-prohibitive for the majority of
campus buildings.
The governing Kansas Board of Regents has
directed the universities to develop more detailed
policies by October for the safe storage and
handling of guns on campus, and to determine
which buildings will see beefed-up security.
Bernadette Gray-Little, the University of Kansas
chancellor, told the University Senate on Thursday
there are high-security labs and other campus areas
where shooting a gun would be dangerous, the

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Oklahoma workers compensation

system under new scrutiny
ByTIMTALLEY
Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY Three

years after passage of sweeping
legislation
that
revamped
Oklahomas workers compensation system, courts are scrapping
significant parts of the law in
decisions that say the regulations
violate the state constitution and
do not provide adequate
protection to workers.

The new regulations were touted

by the Republican-controlled
Oklahoma Legislature as a way to
reduce the cost of workers
compensation insurance for
employers and improve health
outcomes for injured workers by
moving the workers compensation
system from an adversarial courtbased system to an administrative
one.
But since the new law went into
effect on Feb. 1, 2014, 38 provi-

sions have been found unconstitutional, invalid or inoperable. And

while dozens more challenges
remain pending before state trial
and appeals courts, including the
Oklahoma Supreme Court, a new
research report on the cost and
efficacy of workers compensation
systems in all 50 states and
Washington, D.C., says that while
the cost of workers compensation
insurance in Oklahoma has

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www.leaderandtimes.com

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma Gov. Mary

Fallin says shes disappointed and offended by the
comments Donald Trump made about women in 2005,
but she didnt pull her endorsement of the Republican
presidential candidate.
In a statement posted on
Twitter during Sunday nights
presidential debate, the Republican governor said that both
Trump and Hillary Clinton are
very flawed and have made
mistakes. Fallin, who served as
an honorary chairwoman of a
Trump fundraiser in Norman
FALLIN
last month, said she hoped that
Trump would use the debate to
demonstrate he has the character and leadership skills
to be president.
Also Sunday, Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said on
Facebook that Trumps comments were disgusting
but said it was hypocritical for Clinton to criticize
Trump because of her own personal failings.

Parents problem:
Watch debate with
kids, risk awkward talk
By KRISTENWYATT
Associated Press

DENVER Parents watching Sunday nights presidential debate with their children faced a dilemma: Let
their kids witness political history
or send them to bed early to
avoid an awkward conversation?
The debate started with a
question from an audience
member who asked whether
the candidates feel they are
modeling
appropriate
behavior for youth, noting that
the last presidential debate
couldve been rated as MA
mature audiences.
It quickly proved to be an apt
observation. The second question,
from CNNs Anderson Cooper, was
about Republican nominee Donald Trumps vulgar
2005 comments describing grabbing womens genitals.
Trump responded by calling it locker room talk, then

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