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Six people were arrested Monday on suspicion of trespassing in Greensburg. District Judge Daniel Love found probable cause for their arrest and set bond at $10,000 for each individual.None of the six lived in Greensburg, according to Love."They apparently were from Wichita," he said, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service apparently was going to take four of the six people, he said.They have not been formally charged, and their names were not available.

Link to site, Wichita Eagle

Russell Steen, a 48-year-old sales and delivery man for Taylor Printing, stood with his kids in the front yard of his house in Pratt, Kansas (pop. 6,500) last Friday night. “We were watching the lightning about 9:30, quarter to ten,” he told me. “It was one of those Kansas lightning storms that you tell people in L.A. about and they just don’t believe you. The whole sky was filled with it. It was amazing.” Steen doesn’t have cable. He doesn’t even have broadcast TV. Maybe he doesn’t need it. “I mean, that storm was something to see.” Eventually, he went...

Anybody watching CNN? Am I imagining things or did CNN actually dispel the Gov. Kat Katty Sebelius myth that they didnt have enough equipment? Also the AG of Kansas seemed to have backtracked on earlier statements that they didnt have enough for the cleanup and reconstruction. Now the story is they meant for future disasters they would be strained.

By Associated Press Monday, May 7, 2007 Greensburg, Kan.— Paramedic Annette Gasten and her German shepherd, Greta, had a grim weekend searching amid the piles of wreckage left by one of the strongest tornadoes to rake across the Plains. Every business on Greensburg’s main street was demolished and officials estimate as much as 95 percent of the town was destroyed. Tree trunks stood bare, stripped of most of their branches. All the churches were destroyed. At least eight people in this community of 1,500 were dead, putting the state’s total death toll at 10. No one was found Sunday in...

GREENSBURG, Kan. Four Fort Riley soldiers were arrested for looting from a store in Greensburg. Major General Tod Bunting, the state's adjutant general, said the soldiers came to Greensburg to help on their own, and were not part of any official detachment. Few details were available, but Bunting says the four went into a store last night and took more merchandise than the owner wanted them to take. He was not sure what store they went into, but it was one of the few buildings still standing after Friday night's storm. Bunting also did not know exactly what the soldiers...

Tornado Snatches Greensburg Treasure 1,000 pound Brenham pallasite meteorite comes up missing after tornado strikes Greensburg. by The Associated Press The tornado that razed the Kansas town of Greensburg also snatched one of its most valuable treasures. The thousand-pound Brenham pallasite meteorite is gone. Greensburg has drawn world-class meteorite hunters for decades to this remote Kansas hamlet. Trooper Ronald Knoefel says even the town's own extensive meteorite collection is gone. And the town's other claim to fame -- the world's largest hand dug well -- is buried under a mountain of debris. The nearby gift shop for the attraction had...

Updated: 12:26pm The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Greensburg was an EF-5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. A spokesman for the NWS office out of Dodge City estimates winds were near 205 miles-per-hour. The tornado was about a mile and a half wide. This is the first EF-5 and the first F-5 under the previous scale since the tornado that hit Moore, OK in 1999. That storm system spawned the Haysville Tornado.

May 4 2007--A large tornado caused extensive damage in Greensburg, Kansas this evening. The storm hit the Western Kansas town shortly before 10:00 p.m. KAKE storm chaser Lanny Dean was just a few miles away when the tornado hit. Dean has seen several homes destroyed on the southern edge of the community. KAKE's Nick VinZant is reporting sigificant damage in Greensburg with houses destroyed and others seriously damaged. Stay with KAKE and kake.com for updates on this storm.

They photographed generals and presidents. They also shot street scenes of ordinary Koreans doing their laundry and getting haircuts. It was 1953 and Roy Behrens and Dom Emanuele were serving as photographers at the tail end of the Korean War. "We photographed everything you can imagine," says Behrens, 74, who now lives in Tucson. Tucked into his portfolio of Korean civilians and American generals are shots of American actress Terry Moore in an ermine bathing suit, there for a USO show. Not all the assignments were so pleasant. With peace declared, Behrens shot photos of American bodies being delivered from...

<p>A group of Maryland lawmakers is seeking to have funding for a proposed high-speed maglev train project removed from that state's budget.</p> <p>The magnetic levitation train runs on a elevated track, or guideway, at speeds that may reach 240 mph. Maryland's maglev project would link Baltimore with Washington, D.C. It would take about 20 minutes to make the trek on guideways that are proposed to run parallel to a current Amtrak rail line.</p>