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Leavenworth community grappling with waste control issues at landmark
After complaints of slow trash pickup, one sanitation company is proposing a new transfer station to speed things up. However, not everyone likes the location the company wants, since it threatens a local landmark.
Court ruling blocks new Title IX rules in dozens of SC schools
A federal court ruling in Kansas that temporarily blocks changes to the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules applies to more than two dozen South Carolina schools, Attorney General Alan Wilson announced Wednesday. More than half of all U.S. states, including South Carolina, filed or joined multiple lawsuits in the wake of the administration’s rewrite […] The post Court ruling blocks new Title IX rules in dozens of SC schools appeared first on SC Daily Gazette.
Highland Community College and Wichita Tech Honored with 2024 KBOR Data Quality Awards for Excellence in Data Reporting
At the June 2024 Data Quality and Planning Conference hosted by the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR), KBOR President and CEO Dr. Blake Flanders presented Data Quality Awards to Highland Community College and Wichita State University Technical College (Wichita Tech). Jeff Hurn, Director of Institutional Research at Highland Community College, attended to receive the award.
Former reporter settles with police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper, plans scholarship
LAWRENCE — Deb Gruver felt heartbroken and violated when police raided the Marion County Record last year. As a reporter at the newspaper, Gruver knew that powerful people in town weren’t fans of the accountability journalism she and her colleagues produced. But when police rolled up to the office on Aug. 11, 2023, she didn’t […] The post Former reporter settles with police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper, plans scholarship appeared first on Kansas Reflector.
Topeka sought seed funds to build more bike lanes. Build Kansas said no.
The Build Kansas Advisory Committee rejected a proposal from the city of Topeka to use federal grant funds to build seven bike lanes across the community. The board rejected the $3.3 million price tag levied on the Build Kansas fund, which would have unlocked more than $13 million in U.S. Department of Transportation funds to construct the bike lanes. The city contributed $0 to the project, relying on the Build Kansas fund to contribute the entire local...
Cold case cracked: Charges filed in 2017 murder of KCK 15-year-old
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Nearly 7 years after the murder of a 15-year-old working at a Kansas City, Kansas, laundromat, charges have been filed in the death of Harmon High School sophomore December Htoo. Htoo, remembered as a bright and talented student, singer, son, brother and athlete, was closing...
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