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Most people see courts from the outside. But what really happens is nothing like you see on TV crimes dramas. Common Law shows you the justice system from the inside out, bringing you real stories from those who work in an American courthouse.
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Kansas.com As the Tanganyika Wildlife Park near Goddard begins its second season, it hopes to draw visitors with new exhibits — and baby penguins.
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Two African penguin chicks were born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in January. They are the first African penguin chicks born in Kansas. The warm-weather penguins currently weigh about four pounds each.
Sedney Valoissmith I was visiting my parents last week in Wichita who moved down there in June 2007. I come to visit Twice a Year.
Kansas.com The Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats will both play close to home for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
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Kansas' Tyrel Reed scores a breakaway layup against Kansas State in the second half Saturday night. Kansas defeated in-state rival Kansas State for the Big 12 Conference title and now both teams will wait to learn their NCAA Tournament fate. (March 13, 2010)
Kansas.com "I think dial-up should be outlawed," says Heidi Main, owner of an Internet coffee house in Junction City.
High-speed Web access still spotty in Kansas | Wichita and Kansas news | Crime, courts, weather, edu
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This story was prepared in part using the report "High-Speed Services for Internet Access," released Feb. 10 by the Federal Communications Commission.The full report and maps outlining broadband Internet ...
Kansas.com The Citation CJ4 was conceived around Cessna conference tables six or seven years ago, long before the recession began in 2008. Had they known the economic meltdown was coming, said senior vice president for engineering Dave Brant, they would have developed the plane anyway.
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Orders: More than 150Price: $9.04 millionFirst flight: Aug. 19, 2008Model: 525CFAA certification: March 12, 2010EASA certification: Second half of 2010First delivery: April 2010No. of 2010 deliveries: ...
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It would take a minimum of $156 million and three years to bring passenger rail service to Wichita, according to a study released Thursday by Amtrak and the state Department of Transportation.
Would you be a passenger?
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The Heartland Flyer, ready for departure to Oklahoma City from the Ft. Worth station. The train has an engine at each end and the seats in the coach cars are turned so passengers face forward whether coming or going.
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The city of Wichita will seek jail time for the owner of three pit
bulls involved in the fatal mauling of a neighbor's dog, a prosecutor
told a judge Thursday.
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Skeets, the pet dog of a 76-year-old Wichita woman, was killed when a neighbor’s pit bulls entered the woman’s backyard and mauled him.
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Find photos and coverage of Thursday night's Bon Jovi concert at Intrust Bank Arena.
Did you go? What did you think of the show?
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Bon Jovi performed at Intrust Bank Arena during The Circle Tour on March 11, 2010. They opened the show with "Blood On Blood." The band has been together for 26 years.
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Sedgwick County commissioner Kelly Parks, who apparently will not run for
re-election, did not comment except to say he would be making a statement Wednesday.
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WICHITA — Sedgwick County commissioner Kelly Parks will not run for re-election, board chairman Karl Peterjohn announced in an e-mail today.
Kansas.com Kansan Meriem Roby Anderson was one of about 200 women Wednesday who received a Congressional Gold Medal during a Capitol Hill ceremony.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (left to right) Frances Green, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn at Lockbourne Army Air Field, Ohio 1944. These women pilots were some of the first to ferry B-17 ÒFlying FortressÓ bombers. ...
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Developing on Kansas.com: Wichita
City Manager Robert Layton is calling for a 15 percent water rate hike
after discovering that the city's massive aquifer recharge project has
"flawed financial projections," the city reported this afternoon.
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Wichita City Manager Robert Layton is calling for a 15 percent water rate hike after discovering that the city's massive aquifer recharge project has "flawed financial projections," the city reported this afternoon.
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Kansas.com While lawmakers don't like the idea of increasing taxes, they are coming to an understanding that state programs can't be cut enough to make up the entire shortfall, saus Sen. Jay Emler, chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Revenue gained: $140 millionImpact: All utilities, including water, gas and electricity, would be subject to the state's 5.3 percent sales tax. Local governments tax the services already, but the state ...
Kansas.com The city's water utility director, David Warren, resigned earlier this week, he and others say. "After 39 years of public service, it's time for me to give it a rest," Warren said in an interview this afternoon.
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Warren has been the city's water utility director since 1989, and he oversees some of the city's most expensive and important projects.
