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Fort Hays State University President Tisa Mason told Ellis County leaders on Tuesday that new partnerships and donations from the community could keep the museum open into next year.
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Kansans for MarshallSen. Roger Marshall’s campaign used images from two Kansas businesses in a recent attack ad against Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton without the businesses’ knowledge or approval. Marshall’s campaign said it had changed the images — but as of Monday night, the old version was still running on television. -
Morgan Chilson/Kansas ReflectorSouthwest Kansas cattle operations were disrupted in late September when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came through and detained immigrants. Businesses had to stop or delay work because employees didn't show up.
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Many in the Hispanic and Latino communities in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal, where most ICE activity was located, returned to work this week. But their fear persists and they aren't yet leaving their homes or returning to regular activities, multiple immigrants said. -
State lawmakers considered Wednesday streamlining the application process for federal benefits so people who qualify for cash assistance and food assistance can receive both through one application. -
Banned Books Week launched in 1982 in response to a surge in the number of book challenges in libraries and schools. This year's theme is "Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read." -
People have harvested wild foods for millennia, but learning how to do it today is harder, because fewer people have those skills. These groups are teaching people to eat "field to fork" again. -
Across the central U.S., more communities are passing ordinances to regulate renewable infrastructure development. A University of Missouri study examines the economic impact of renewable energy in rural areas.
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Steven Senne/APCornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations. -
Jeremias Gonzalez/APMore than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests.
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Hill co-starred in HBO's Somebody Somewhere and has hosted drag king shows and queer cabarets. "This is my mantra … if you don't see yourself represented, go out and represent yourself," he says. -
Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood. -
Endgame and Avatar have been jockeying for the title for years now. -
The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign. -
State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night.
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André Cymone looked around one day and released that funk, a genre he grew up playing and listening to in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was largely absent from contemporary musical conversations. He's bringing it back.
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