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Design firm files multimillion-dollar lien against American Heartland Theme Park developer
Could a $5.5 million demand for payment mean heartbreak for developers of a $2 billion theme park in northeast Oklahoma?. Make it a $2.5 billion theme park. Rising construction costs, design changes, and the tardy $5.5 million payment have cast doubt around American Heartland Theme Park and Resort and related Three Ponies RV Park and Campground, at Vinita. The project has been questioned in some quarters since it was announced last July.
GMFS Quapaw Farmers Market!
Michelle Bowden and Jean Ann Blalock with the Quapaw Farmers Market came in this morning to talk about their customer appreciation day coming up tomorrow! They appreciate ALL of their customers, so much they want you to come have lunch with them!! Each customer will get a FREE Burger and a small bag of chips. It will be on May 17th from 10 am-2 pm (or until supplies run out) and will be located at the Quapaw Farmers Market & Food Hub. By attending you will receive a free ticket to be in a drawing to win a Beau Jardin charcoal grill, a barbeque tool set, charcoal and lighter fluid, and $100 in additional vouchers from Quapaw Casino! You can learn more by visiting their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/QuapawFarmersMarket.
32-year-old cold case gets a new look in a southeast Kansas homicide
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. – For over three decades an eight-inch blood-stained knife blade remained securely packed away in a cardboard evidence box. Officials removed it from the back of a young Kansas woman, murdered just nine days after her wedding. The broken knife recovered by deputies from Jennifer Bryan...
One dead in Motorcycle crash in Southeast Kansas
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Kan. — One man is dead after a motorcycle crash near Coffeyville, Saturday night. The Kansas Highway Patrol says it happened shortly before 8:00 p.m. A motorcycle, operated by Charles Morris, 50, of Coffeyville – was Eastbound on US 166, near County Road 5900 when he left the road and struck a culvert.
100-year-old basket returns home to the Modoc Nation
At the Modoc Nation in northeast Oklahoma, Syd Colombe works to preserve her tribe’s history and culture, spanning more than 14,000 years. She is a member of the Modoc Nation and a descendant of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She said part of her job is to seek out lost...
The Next Step collecting gently worn shoes in Joplin and Carl Junction
JOPLIN, Mo. — If you have a gently worn pair of shoes, or even a pair you bought but never wore, an area non-profit would like to have them. The Next Step – Joplin is an organization dedicated to helping those in the homeless community “take the next step” to a better life.
“Even if you think it’s the smallest thing, call us,” Southeast Kansas authorities emphasize they never quit looking into Judd murder
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Kan. — In part one of our special report, you got to know Jennifer Judd – a Picher, Oklahoma native who was brutally murdered in her Baxter Springs apartment 32 years ago. Now, we take a look at the day Jennifer died – and the frustration surrounding this decades-old investigation.
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