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Wichita State University says it has formed a partnership with an engineering services company from India that it hopes will eventually create new jobs and avoid big layoffs in the aerospace industry. John Tomblin is the director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State. He told The Wichita Eagle that the agreement with ...

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The Topeka Zoo has euthanized a 24-year-old giraffe that had been sick for a while. Jesse the giraffe was euthanized Wednesday. The zoo reported its failing health in late March. The zoo says the giraffe suffered from laminitis, a disease that causes tenderness and inflammation in the hooves. Zoo director Brendan Wiley said in ...

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Police are warning residents of a scammer who's claiming to be retrieving recalled vehicles. Wichita Police Lt. Dan East said that two recent incidents involved a suspect who may have been the same person. He says the man walked into a Wichita public schools office and said he was with a local car dealership and ...

11 years ago
Family members of a woman killed by a teenager who drove the wrong way on a Kansas highway say more should have been done to keep him off the road after he told deputies he had taken LSD. Two women and 16-year-old Dominic Stolfi were killed in the collision Sunday morning on Kansas 254, hours after ...

11 years ago
The final statistics from the 2014 Smoky Hill River Festival Have been complied. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, with its "vibrant mix of outdoor art, live entertainment, exhibiting artists, children's activities, and tempting food" the festival is a v"isible and influential community masterpiece". Here are some highlights: WHO CAME: Festival attendance was 62,860 for 2014, an increase ...

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A Salina man is booked into jail for sending obscene photos of himself to a man and woman last Friday. Police arrested 34-year-old Victor Burkholder on Tuesday for promoting obscenities. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Burkholder contacted a 31-year-old female and 31-year-old male on Facebook, then allegedly sent unsolicited pictures of his genitals to both victims through ...

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Democratic challenger Paul Davis is shrugging off a national Republican figure's suggestion that critics of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback are akin to the evil "Eye of Mordor." Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made the reference to "The Lord of the Rings" Monday during a rally in Wichita for Brownback. Santorum said that like the ever-open evil eye ...

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A man with a legal concealed gun was asked to leave a movie theatre in Salina on Tuesday. After other customers saw the gun and complained, theatre staff asked the man to leave. When the man became upset, police were called. KAKE TV reports that the man, who had a concealed carry permit, was upset the ...

11 years ago
Locally grown foods aren't just for farmers markets anymore. A growing network of companies and organizations is delivering food directly from local farms to institutions like hospitals and schools, eliminating middlemen from farm to fork. They're increasing profits for smaller farms and bringing consumers healthier foods. These so-called food hubs have helped transform locally grown foods into ...

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Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts has maintained his big fundraising advantage over tea party challenger Milton Wolf in their Republican primary race. Roberts' re-election campaign disclosed Tuesday it had raised nearly $797,000 in cash contributions from April through June. Wolf's campaign reported raising almost $341,000. The three-term incumbent began the quarter with nearly $2.25 million in cash on ...

11 years ago
A national tea party group is backing challenger Milton Wolf's bid to unseat Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts in the state's Republican primary. The Atlanta-based Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund announced Tuesday that it has endorsed Wolf. The group described Wolf as the right conservative candidate to fight Democratic President Barack Obama's agenda in Washington. Spokesman Kevin Broughton ...