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Newsweek
April 26, 2018
A 66-year-old Kansas man was arrested Sunday and charged in connection with an 18-year-old cold case. ... Following interviews with several people who had knowledge about the murders and the missing girls, investigators determined that Busick, Warren Phillip “Phil” Welch II and David PenningtonÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 26, 2018
A policy change that would have meant more people spending the night or weekend in the already crowded Jackson County jail was put on hold ... new policy, saying the shortened hours for bonding out prisoners would also mean more detainees jammed into the detention center in downtown Kansas City.
KSNT News
April 26, 2018
It's now the 6th leading cause of death in Kansas today. In The ... What we need to understand is there are people being diagnosed in their 40's, and in their 50's as well." ... We don't know who that person is or how old they are, but we do believe that they are currently here on this planet," says Bradley.
The New Food Economy
April 26, 2018
Wichita State University forecasts Kansas's annual population growth next year will fall by half again, holding steady at a paltry 0.4 percent for the next 40 years. Dozens of Kansas's rural counties now average less than 10 people per square mile, while towns I remember from my childhood have almostÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 26, 2018
Kang's friend Kevin Panlilio said he regretted not getting together more often and called Kang "the type of person that sheds light on people." Ahangama Rathanasiri, a monk at the Toronto Maha Vihara Buddhist Meditation Centre, said the brutality of the attack that claimed one of their members left manyÃâà...
Kansas City Star (blog)
April 26, 2018
"But one time when I wore my hijab to school, people made fun of it." So she wears it to the mosque and when she prays, but very rarely in public. When I ask her what the kids at school said, she shuts down. She says she doesn't remember, her eyes, big and brown and hurt with the memory she won'tÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 26, 2018
More cases of measles in students were reported in Missouri this week and health officials in three other states warned their residents that a traveler from Missouri may also have exposed them to the virus. Bill Snook, a spokesman with the Kansas City Health Department, said there are now 10 cases ofÃâà...
Lawrence Journal-World
April 25, 2018
Under current Kansas law, however, people who don't itemize deductions on their federal returns may not itemize on their state returns. The result would be that those people could end up paying more in state taxes. The Senate's tax bill, Substitute for House Bill 2228, would change that so people who takeÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 9, 2018
Federal prosecutors have charged 40 people in an alleged international drug trafficking and money-laundering scheme, including two people in Kansas. Juan Duarte-Tello, 44, and Diana Aurora Holguin-Gallegos, 30, both of Kansas City, Mo., are charged with working as couriers who transported largeÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 9, 2018
Police were investigating a possible homicide following a shooting Friday morning in south-central Kansas City. Police were called shortly before 10 a.m. to the 6000 block of South Benton Avenue and found a woman sprawled on the front porch of a residence. Paramedics' efforts to revive her wereÃâà...
Kansas City Star (blog)
March 9, 2018
I used to dream of the thriving downtown we have today — a streetcar, a walkable community and a happily hipster hodgepodge of people and places. But in all my downtown ... Kansas City is the fifth most economically segregated city in the country, and economic disparity correlates with racial disparity.
HuffPost
March 9, 2018
In order to preserve the Kansas law, he will have to show that noncitizen voter registration is a substantial problem and that nothing short of the state's proof-of-citizenship law can stop it. Kobach's office has identified 129 people who have attempted to or successfully registered since 2000, but he says thatÃâà...
KSNT News
March 9, 2018
“There was no smuggler's fee and has never been,” Ryan wrote, adding that there are “plenty of people willing to work in western Kansas without having to ... A fifth ex-worker confirmed the general accounts of those who allowed their names to be used but asked for anonymity because that person also hasÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 9, 2018
The bill, as it passed the House, would make it a crime under Kansas law for a person to possess a firearm if they were convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense within the last five years. State law currently bans people convicted of a felony domestic violence offense from keeping a gun,Ãâà...
The Marshall Project
March 8, 2018
“People who don't know me are going to look at me like I'm a horrible person for being on that list,” she said. Lawmakers have long justified ... But Kansas went furthest, adding an array of lesser drug crimes; roughly 4,600 people in the state are now registered as drug offenders. As deaths from opioids rise,Ãâà...
KCTV Kansas City
March 8, 2018
The band's 2018 North American “After Laughter Summer Tour (Tour 5)” with Foster the People will arrive at Starlight Theatre on July 7. Tickets go on sale March 16 at 10 a.m.. The amphitheater and arena tour kicks off June 12 in St. Augustine, FL and make stops across the U.S. and Canada includingÃâà...
WIBW
March 1, 2018
(AP) — A Kansas agency says it inadvertently sent health-related personal information of about 11,000 people to its business partners. The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services announced Thursday that it became aware on Feb. 23 that an employee sent an unauthorized e-mail with theÃâà...
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