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KMUW
Former Coldwater, Kansas, mayor Joe Ceballos surrendered to federal immigration agents at a detention center in Wichita on Wednesday. He has said voting was an “honest mistake” because he believed his permanent legal status allowed him to vote.
Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga
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Kansas News Service
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing moving the Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center and the National Soybean Germplasm Collection from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, where they've both been housed for decades. -
A group of south Kansas landowners and ranchers had hoped the Kansas Corporation Commission would reject Evergy’s proposal for a new major transmission line. Instead the energy company got the okay to build the line up to the Flint Hills perimeter. -
Former Mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, Joe Ceballos pleaded guilty in April to voting as a noncitizen, which he says was an honest mistake. Now he’s being ordered to federal immigration detention. -
In 2016, before the Legislature repealed much of Brownback's 2012 income tax agenda to restore fiscal integrity to the budget, Moody's dropped the state's credit rating from stable to negative. -
Currently, both Blue Cross and Aetna are health plan options, with 35,400 employees enrolled in the former and 4,500 in the latter.
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China Pool/Getty Images AsiaPacAt the summit, the Chinese leader placed Taiwan, a key point of friction between the U.S. and China, at the center, calling it "the most important issue" between the two countries. -
Matteo Farinella/Columbia University's Zuckerman InstituteA hearing system that monitors brain waves could help people with hearing loss communicate in noisy environments.
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Until recently, Jonathan Gross was a Trump political appointee at the Department of Justice and worked on its "Weaponization Working Group." He has now become a vocal critic of the department. -
Much of the focus of the ongoing redistricting war has been on which political party will come out on top. But it's voters who will pay a cost, say voting experts and voting rights advocates. -
U.S. school districts worry it could get even more expensive to prepare a meal under new federal dietary guidelines, as they also contend with cuts to programs that helped them buy local food. -
In the age of fast fashion, it can be hard to find garments that are both well constructed and made with quality materials. Here are four things a fashion expert checks before buying new clothes. -
Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.
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Ethan Covey
Acclaimed singer-songwriter returns with new album that further explores the reaches of heartache and heartbreak.
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