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Former Wichita musician Jenny Wood suffered near-fatal injuries in a 2019 car accident that have left her suffering life-threatening grand mal seizures. Despite her struggles, she says she's determined to keep moving forward with music and life.
Local news
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As many as 100 million or 200 million birds will fly northward along the Central Flyway on Saturday night. Kansas, Missouri and neighboring states lie in the hottest of hotspots.
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Solar flares are causing a geomagnetic storm that should make it possible for Kansas City and other cities in the middle of the country to see the aurora borealis, which can usually only be glimpsed in northern latitudes. The best views are expected around midnight.
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It’s been a year since NASA kicked off an effort to provide farmers with useful information garnered from satellite images of Earth. The program includes research at two universities in the Midwest.
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City officials, including Mayor Lily Wu and City Manager Robert Layton, announced new steps for homelessness policy at the Justice Together Nehemiah Assembly.
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“Truth” is the new release from Robin Macy and Kentucky White, out on Friday, May 10.
NPR News
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Report from the Pew Research Center says Hispanic women in general continue to face pressure to play traditional roles, despite advances in educational attainment and entrepreneurship
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This comes after a yearlong listening tour by a bipartisan working group in the Senate.
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Inflation eased last month, according to a report Wednesday from the Labor Department, which means people feeling stretched by high prices and high borrowing costs could feel a little relief soon.
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Scientists are looking at the ways humans change the planet — and the impact that has on the spread of infectious disease. You might be surprised at some of their conclusions.
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Robert Fico was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday, but his deputy prime minister said he believed Fico would survive.
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Powerful synthetic opioids and drugs like meth and cocaine still flood U.S. communities, fueling historically high overdose deaths.
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President Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to events on June 27 with CNN and Sept. 10 with ABC News. They're opting out of a plan from the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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KMUW's Fletcher Powell says a new literary adaptation is worth the effort.
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