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The Kansas State High School Activities Association voted to sanction girls flag football as an official sport, giving teams more opportunities for competitions, funding — and recognition.
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This week on "The Range," bluster, boom and bust in Wichita. Also, foraging for the elusive morel mushroom. -
Musician Kelley Hunt closes out the Wichita Jazz Festival this Saturday and says that she welcomes performing in the sometimes blurry lines between blues and jazz. -
Salary, benefits and administrative support key to retention decisions. -
The national campaign, which started in 1991, encourages women to raise funds, volunteer on work sites and spread the word about affordable housing. -
Harvester Arts is hosting a thesis show for Wichita State artists that closes Friday. Torin Andersen caught up with Sloane Dyer and Branden Lawless to hear more about their thesis exhibit and the anxieties of putting it together.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta/APDirk Kempthorne, a Republican, was elected mayor of Boise at age 34 and served seven years before serving one term in the U.S. Senate and then as governor until 2006. -
IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty ImagesThe second-in-command of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist organization in India, rarely speaks to the Western press. Here's what he said about his group's controversial history.
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The bronze sculpture is on display inside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of a new exhibition on the impact and cultural importance of statues. -
Authorities have filed murder charges against the roommate of a Bangladeshi doctoral student who disappeared with his girlfriend from the University of South Florida. -
Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released hours after the Justice Department said it would allow firing squads for federal executions. -
Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region. -
Two runners in this week's Boston Marathon stopped to help a racer who had collapsed just short of the finish line. NPR's Scott Simon says their generosity is its own kind of "personal best."
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Think you don't know what phonotactics are? Even our youngest English speakers do! You might just not realize it...
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