The 2024 Wichita Jazz Festival ends Saturday night with a performance from the Tierney Sutton Band. Sutton, a nine-time Grammy-nominated vocalist, says that while writing material for a new album with the San Gabriel 7, she was struck by the realities of racism in American history.
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- Democratic Governor Laura Kelly says she’s not involved in an effort to get the Kansas City Chiefs to relocate to Kansas.
- Officials from the University of Kansas and Wichita State University will hold a groundbreaking for the first phase of their new biomedical campus next month.
- Republican Congressman Jake LaTurner of Kansas says he will not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives this November.
- Military veterans facing legal issues could soon get help from a new law clinic at the University of Kansas.
- The remains of a Norton soldier who died during the Korean War have been identified.
- Hog prices have started to stabilize after one of the worst years on record.
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