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The State Board of Education plans to announce the next commissioner during its April 14 meeting.
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A proposed bill would allow governments to privately award higher-value construction contracts for county buildings, bridges, highways, dams, turnpikes and parking lots.
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Senate majority leader's amendment forbid sports on Sundays, Wednesday evenings
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Governor pushes for 2.5% increases, points to Legislature's automatic 4% hike
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More than 40% of the population lives in a rural part of the state but only 20% of the state's attorneys practice there.
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The KBI and local law enforcement executed raids late last year on smoke and vape shops in Concordia, Montgomery, Abilene, McPherson, Pratt, Salina, Topeka and Wichita.
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The Army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters on a training run hovered near the hillside home of Kid Rock as the outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump saluted their crews.
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A Florida airport was cleared to be renamed after President Donald Trump on Monday, hours before the president revealed plans for a Miami skyscraper planned to house his presidential library.
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No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport's final weekend in consecutive years.
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Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy.
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The K-pop group has officially returned from its four-year hiatus bigger than ever. Based solely on first-week sales, there's only one artist who has done any better.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky about a new class action lawsuit against the Justice Department and Google over the release of identifying information about victims.
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The suit is centered around the alleged attempt on Anssaf Ali Mayo's life. But it raises broader questions, including about the role of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen's civil war.
Commentary & Podcasts
Maggie Smith is best known for her poem Good Bones, which went viral in 2020. Her new collection, A Suit or a Suitcase, is an emotional, mind-opening study on the relentlessness of time.
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