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Wichita band The Velvet Fever releases its newest recording, "Freewriter," this weekend. The band's Jason and Katie Hendry say the collection's title track was partially inspired by a photo taken by bassist Brian Bontrager, and with it, they wanted to create musical settings that closely reflected the lyrics.
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A number of changes are in place ahead of the fall semester, with more issues set to come up.
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The critically acclaimed Minneapolis musical duo The Cactus Blossoms have two performances in Kansas this weekend.
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Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, previously received $600,000 from the county, which settled various lawsuits over the raid for a collective $3 million last fall.
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The Department for Children and Families has lowered the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payment error rate from 9.13% to 7.8%, which means the state may have to pay about $20.6 million to the federal government because it didn't achieve an error rate below 6%. The state still has time to achieve that milestone.
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Kansas professor falsely accused of espionage wants university to pay for firing, harm to reputationFormer professor Feng “Franklin” Tao has asked KU to pay him for lost wages and an unspecified amount for “reputational injury, emotional distress, pain and suffering.”
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It's a twice-a-year injection that is remarkably effective in preventing an HIV infection. Distribution is starting. But questions are being raised about getting it to the areas that need it most.
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The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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In online focus groups, 10 of 12 Biden-to-Trump voters said they wouldn't automatically think negatively of a politician who identifies with socialism.
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Sailors and family members who were evacuated from U.S. bases in the Middle East months ago are waiting for the military to figure out what will happen to the lives they left behind.
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Bridgers' third solo album is her account of a time in which she retreated from the public eye, reeling from the effects of fame, a complicated love life and the sudden death of her father.
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A grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.
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As the sky darkened, gradually at first and then quickly, people broke into applause and cheered. It was the Spain's first total solar eclipse in more than a century.
Commentary & Podcasts
On this week's Past and Present, Jay Price reflects on his love of often unloved musical instruments.
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