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State health officials say humans are safe, especially if the milk they drink is pasteurized -
The lawsuit was filed in Barton County District Court in the final days of a bitter race between Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and Democrat Adam Hamilton. -
A spokesperson for the Republican Women's Caucus Fund said the group had "absolutely no involvement" with the texts that prompted a call for an investigation. -
Kansans will see a constitutional amendment on their November ballot that relates to citizenship and voting. -
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) encourages residents across the state to practice safety measures this Halloween. DPS says people can help prevent accidents with simple precautions: high-visibility costumes, remaining vigilant behind the wheel and watching closely for trick-or-treaters. “Halloween should be a night of fun and celebration, not a night of tragedy,” said Bryan Rippee, Texas Highway Patrol Chief. “We’re asking everyone to do their part.” DPS shared that child pedestrian fatalities from vehicle collisions are more than twice as likely to occur on Halloween than on any other day of the year. DPS’ top tips: DPS says active... Read more »
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National Child Labor Committee; Library of Congress Prints & Photographs # 2018677808In 1902, my great-great-grandfather H.B. Kliewer gained his U.S. citizenship. He had been living in Hillsboro, Kansas, ostensibly orphaned when his father died shortly after the family emigrated from Russia in the late 1880s. Until a few days ago, I had only a vague outline of this story. I knew my family had emigrated from Russia as part of the larger Mennonite migration discussed in David Laskin’s The Children’s Blizzard, but I was unfamiliar with the texture of this family’s settler story. -
Tune in this week to enjoy two compositions, one featuring a harpsichord and the other a piano! -
Some folks might be able to skip watering during the winter where they live...but here on the High Plains, you'd do well to keep an eye on the moisture in your soil, or things might get a bit more dry than your trees would like! -
Kansas Historical Society, Kansas MemoryI am Martin Fulmer from Goodwell, OK, here for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2026 Fall Read. Growing up in the Carolinas, I never thought of blizzards as part of my weather vocabulary. Hurricanes, yes. But blizzards belonged somewhere else. Melanie Benjamin’s The Children’s Blizzard reminded me that weather has a way of making such distinctions meaningless.
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