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Blaise Mesa/Kansas News ServiceSome Kansas foster kids suffer 'extreme' instability as state still fails to fix longstanding issuesA new report reflects how Kansas is falling short of some its commitments to improve the state's foster system. -
Peggy Lowe/KCUR 89.3Attorneys for the family of Charles Adair, 50, whose death was ruled a homicide, saw body camera footage of his death Tuesday. It showed Wyandotte County deputy sheriff Richard Fatherley kneeling on Adair’s back for a minute and a half, they said. -
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Zane Irwin/Kansas News ServiceDetainees in a Cottonwood Falls jail describe sleeping on the floor in overcapacity cells. Amid a national deportation surge, this jail is one of the region’s primary immigration detention centers. -
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Sheila Brummer/Harvest Public MediaPopcorn festivals and even "popcorn capitals of the world" dot the middle of the country. Yet this ubiquitous snack is grown on fewer than 1,000 farms in the U.S. today.
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The field is growing more crowded as Republicans and Democrats line up to seek the Kansas governor's office. -
There's a math problem in Kansas high schools that KU graduate researcher and former high school math teacher Natalie Patton is trying to solve….The answer could be in implementing new strategies for learning. -
Kansas farmers are hurting after China’s retaliatory tariffs on the United States closed a major market for the state’s biggest crop. Despite a productive year, farmers across Kansas may not break even. -
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