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Bracket Watch: Release of Top 16 Will Provide Clarity

The NCAA tournament selection committee will release their current top men’s teams Saturday afternoon, which will give insight into what they value most.

Sports Illustrated

Man jailed in Lawrence for more than five years before charges were dropped files lawsuit

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who was jailed in Lawrence, Kansas, for more than five years and released after charges were dropped has filed a lawsuit alleging he was deprived of his constitutional rights.

Tribune News Service

Amid U.S. TikTok bans, a few balk at writing its name in law

Banning TikTok from government devices enjoys bipartsan support across the U.S. But a few Democratic legislators in Kansas object to expanding a ban imposed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly because they don’t want a state law to target a company by name

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Officer, pedestrian and police dog die in Kansas City crash

Authorities say a driver has collided with a Kansas City police cruiser, killing an officer who made an arrest in a notorious quintuple homicide nearly a decade ago, the officer’s police dog and a pedestrian

The Independent UK

Editorial: If you’re tough on crime, you better celebrate Missouri setting Lamar Johnson free

Ricky Kidd. Carrody Buchhorn. Keith Carnes. Floyd Bledsoe. Kevin Strickland. Lamonte McIntyre. Olin “Pete” Coones Jr. Missouri or Kansas threw all of them behind bars — many of them for a long, long time — for crimes they swore they didn’t commit.

Tribune News Service

LOCALIZE IT: Advocates fear state push to erase trans people

The Independent UK

States' push to define sex decried as erasing trans people

A bill in Kansas and similar legislation in at least seven other states have LGBTQ-rights advocates worrying about a sweeping Republican-led effort to erase the legal existence of transgender men and women

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Biden nominee was praised for helping free Kevin Strickland. It’s now being used against her

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kate Brubacher’s work to free Kevin Strickland from prison, overturning the longest known wrongful conviction in Missouri history, won her praise in Kansas City. But that work may be slowing down her confirmation to become the U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas.

Tribune News Service

‘It’s shameful’: Critics say GOP bill in Kansas House could wipe out LGBTQ protections

A bill proposed last week by a Kansas Republican lawmaker mirrors in part two Democratic measures that deal with eliminating unlawful racist language from homeowners association and other housing documents.

Tribune News Service

DNA could crack a notorious Florida cold case — with infamous suspects

TAMPA, Fla. — The Walkers’ wood frame cottage stood plain and white, surrounded by pasture land and hardwood forest. There in tiny Osprey, on the southern tip of the vast Palmer Ranch, the family’s nearest neighbor was half a mile away.

Tribune News Service

Kansas City Chiefs face new call to drop ‘insulting’ name and symbol

Group gathered outside Arizona stadium to protest the team’s name and the insulting gesture and chant performed by its fans

The Guardian - US

Pompeo flexes Trump cred at Kansas event, but does he support his former boss in 2024? ‘Oh goodness no’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Returning to Wichita, Kansas, for an event promoting his new book, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn’t mince words when asked if he supports Donald Trump’s 2024 bid for the presidency.

Tribune News Service

Infighting intensifes with Kansas GOP set to pick new leader

Republicans are fighting over who will lead the Kansas GOP for the next two years

The Independent UK

Everything to know going into this year's Super Bowl

Here's everything you need to know about Super Bowl LVII, with some help from our member stations KCUR in Kansas City and WHYY in Philadelphia.

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Keystone Pipeline operator identifies what caused the record-setting Kansas oil spill

Structural issues caused by “bending stress on the pipe” and “a weld flaw” are to blame for the Keystone Pipeline’s oil spill in rural northern Kansas earlier this winter, according to pipeline operator TC Energy.

Tribune News Service

Mike Pompeo, on national book tour, returns to Kansas. Is there a road to the presidency?

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been a Baskin Robbins manager, the top of his class at West Point, an Army officer, a lawyer, an entrepreneur and a Kansas congressman. He’s directed the nation’s spies and sat down with dictators like Kim Jong-Un.

The Independent UK

Firm: Faulty weld, pressure on pipe led to Kansas oil spill

The operator of an oil pipeline says a faulty weld at a bend in an oil pipeline contributed to a spill that dumped nearly 13,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek

The Independent UK

Group: 1-in-5 U.S. adults will bet on this year's Super Bowl

The gambling industry's national trade group predicts that 1-in-5 American adults will make a bet on Sunday's Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs

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Deep in storage in Kansas City’s Black Archives: Ku Klux Klan robes. Here’s why

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In the back storage area of the Black Archives of Mid-America, among rows of shelves, sits a box containing a chilling and eerie sight to behold: a set of Ku Klux Klan robes, complete with a pointy hood.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Eagles’ Darius Slay angered all of Missouri by stating Kansas City is in Kansas, even though he’s right

Kansas City, Kansas is — in fact — an actual city!

Dynamite News

Impact Of Hyper-Palatable Foods Revealed In New Study

Findings from scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the University of Kansas may provide more exact recommendations regarding the food you put on your plate if losing weight was one of your new year's resolutions. Read further on Dynamite News:

USA Today Sports Media Group

Texas vs Kansas Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Texas vs Kansas preview, prediction, and breakdown for the college basketball game on Monday, February 6

Tribune News Service

Kansas Republicans say 'Election Day' should mean Election Day. Is that possible?

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kansas Republicans have repeatedly said they want “Election Day” to mean Election Day as they weigh new rules to restrict mail-in ballots and drop boxes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chinese balloon soars across US; Blinken scraps Beijing trip

Aside from the government response, fuzzy videos dotted social media as people with binoculars and telephoto lenses tried to find the “spy balloon” in the sky as it headed southeastward over Kansas and Missouri at 60,000 feet.

The Independent UK

Kansas commits $304M to chip plant to lure federal funds

Kansas plans to give $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to a semiconductor company in its largest city to build a huge new factory

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