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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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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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Giving birth without a doctor or midwife present or foregoing prenatal care are increasingly popular practices. They're attracting people who mistrust the healthcare system or believe in all-natural approaches to birthing.
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Of the seven races a Democratic campaigning organization has targeted to hold or flip in Kansas, six are in the Kansas City area.
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Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain,
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The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Amanda Litman, co-founder of the PAC Run For Something, about the results from the Aug. 11 Democratic primary elections.
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The federal lawsuit alleges that the service from the president's media company violates the Constitution. Meanwhile, Trump Media executives say they have signed up more than 10 customers.
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Utah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human trafficking survivors.
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Karoline Leavitt will continue to be an outside adviser, Trump said
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The New York-based string quartet's new album Rhythm Nation teems with beats ranging from West Africa and Venezuela to jazz standards and Janet Jackson.
Commentary & Podcasts
On this week's Past and Present, Jay Price reflects on his love of often unloved musical instruments.
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