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Britt Oller, and members of 429 other Pratt families and individuals are not likely to forget something special that happened in January 2021 anytime soon.
Two anonymous donors paid off more than $95,000 in medical bills at Pratt Regional Medical Center.
“I found out about it through the mail,” said Oller, who is a postal worker for the U.S. Postal Service in Pratt.
“I kept seeing these letters that I was delivering that had a red line across the top and said ‘take notice, open right away’ or something like that. I remember thinking that I hoped these people would all get their important news,” Oller said. “When I got home later that night I was surprised to see we had a letter like that in our mail too.”
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: $49.6 million (versus $42.6 million in 2019) and $12.4 million in Q4 2020 (versus $11.4 million in Q4 2019)
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Pratt County COVID-19 updates from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday, January 6, 2020 listed 17 new, positive cases of the coronavirus since the Monday, January 4 report. There are now 40 recorded active cases with 45 hospitalizations and 21 deaths in Pratt County. Total number of positive cases are 711, with 671 cases listed as recovered. There are currently no COVID-19 vaccines available at this time.
According to Pratt County Health Department Director Darcie Van Der Vyver, a small allotment of COVID-19 vaccines was received and administered to first responders and front-line healthcare workers. However, no additional vaccines have been received in Pratt County at this point. To get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine, please complete the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T2J2V9R. If you have already completed this survey, no further action is needed, Van Der Vyver said.
Year in Review: 2020 was memorable in so many ways
Pratt Tribune
Editor’s Note: It’s time to look back at the year just past - 2020, and remember the notable stories that were published in the Pratt Tribune. It was a memorable year in many ways. While many of the stories of 2020 focused on the coronavirus, it s coming, it s going, it s effect on the Pratt community and larger area, our number 1 top story for 2020 was about something entirely different. Without a doubt,
Mammoth tusk found, was the top-attention getter this past year. It was a feel good, exciting experience that carried over into state and national publications, with a special piece that culminated in a digital Inside Edition production. However, the top picture choice for 2020 came down to community, our children, and the extreme efforts of leadership in our school systems and I couldn t help awarding Pratt Tribune s top picture of 2020 to the poignent lineup at Libery Middle School of students celebrating
This screenshot taken from a Kiowa County Sheriff’s officer’s dashcam video shows the moment Deputy Jeremy Rodriguez struck former Kansas City Police detective Lionel Womack with his police pickup.
(CN) A Black former police detective who suffered severe injuries when a sheriff’s deputy “intentionally swerved” at him and ran him over with a truck sued the officer for damages in Kansas federal court.
Lionel Womack claims deputy Jeremy Rodriguez’s actions were intentional and violated his constitutional rights.
The Aug. 15 events that led to the lawsuit can be seen in a graphic dashcam video posted by The Associated Press. The footage shows the 35-year-old Womack fleeing, shirtless and unarmed, through an open field with multiple police trucks in pursuit.