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Hamilton graduates from KWU
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SALINA, Kan. — Kansas Wesleyan honored its fall graduates Friday evening during its annual Fall Graduation Recognition Ceremony, held in Mabee Arena.

Twenty graduates were recognized, and Lesa Dunn, assistant professor of sport and exercise science and KWU’s 2021–22 exemplary teacher of the year, delivered the evening’s keynote address.

Among the graduates was Cleon Hamilton of Hinesville.

Kansas Wesleyan University is a private, nonprofit, four-year college located in Salina, Kan., and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Its mission is to promote and integrate academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being and social responsibility For more information, visit www.kwu.edu.

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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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