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The law will help protect people from criminal prosecution if they seek medical help for someone experiencing a drug overdose.
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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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This week on The Range...why trivia rules at one Wichita cider house. Also, we talk with a Wichita woman who’s on a mission to share her Native pride.
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There’s no shortage of options for trivia in Wichita … there’s usually a game somewhere every night of the week. But one trivia gathering has become one of the zaniest contests the city has to offer.
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“Truth” is the new release from Robin Macy and Kentucky White, out on Friday, May 10.
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On this month's "In the Mix," Carla Eckels talks with a Wichita woman who’s on a mission to share her Native pride.
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Barbecue is the man who convinced many of Haiti's gangs to stop fighting each other and start fighting the government. He spoke to NPR about his latest plans.
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A new type of traveler is part of the post-pandemic reset at U.S. hotels, along with fewer daily cleanings and pancake-slinging machines.
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From California to North Carolina, students staged chants and walkouts over the weekend in protest of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza.
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Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction.
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After initiation rites – including circumcision – the boys leave their families to take charge of the herds, driving them high into the mountains. It's a way of life that climate change is testing.
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Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.
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After weeks of preparation, crews are scheduled to conduct a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.
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Book reviewer Suzanne Perez says she used to avoid contemporary romance novels. But the latest book by rom-com queen Emily Henry proves what all the fuss is about.
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