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Jeff Michael Jones, of Ransom, was arrested at 1 p.m. Friday and released just before 7 p.m., according to a booking sheet from Ness County Sheriff Brandon Mitchell. -
Energy regulators and industry experts warn that the state’s delays to major projects amid backlash from residents could create rolling blackouts and strangle growth of other industries that need power. -
The Art's Molino & Market name is a nod to the more than 30,000 pounds of corn per week milled at the Kansas City, Kansas, factory where items from Art's Mexican Products, originally established in 1961, continue to be made today. It's now run by Marissa and Mark Gencarelli of Yoli Tortilleria. -
The state is investing in a declining ecosystem to benefit landowners and wildlife. -
Some government officials said they understand the community's anger, but warn that many of these contracts fall outside their jurisdiction.
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Rex Buchanan/Kansas Public RadioLuther Taylor was a talented baseball player who made it to the Major Leagues and the World Series in the early 1900s. This Kansas native was also deaf. Commentator Rex Buchanan has his story. -
Original stone at the Dighton High School StadiumIn 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration, throwing a lifeline of meaningful work and wages to a nation in the grip of the Great Depression. The federal program had far-reaching effects for the nation's poor and downtrodden, at one point employing more than three million people across the country. -
Matthew T Rader, https://matthewtrader.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHello Radio Readers! This is Marit Ehmke coming to you from west-central Kansas in Lane County. As I was on the tractor the other day, racing the coming rain to knock down very healthy weeds, it occurred to me that we’re such at the mercy of what the wind brings our way. -
This week we revisit recent performances by the many talented students of the West Texas A&M University School of Music!
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