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Associated Press
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June 30, 2015
- The emergency room at Topeka’s Veterans Administration hospital is scheduled to reopen after being closed more than a year.
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Associated Press
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June 30, 2015
- The Overland Park City Council has agreed to give $25,000 to a planned memorial commemorating a 1981 hotel disaster in Kansas City.
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June Jewett
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June 30, 2015
- Long before World War II, Holland stood by us all the way. Huguenots (French Protestants) rose up against the atrocities being committed by the Catholic Church against all other religions. Many fled to Holland to escape torture and death.
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By Elvyn Jones
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June 30, 2015
- Baldwin City residents aware of where the city’s tap water comes from probably paid more than casual interest to the Lawrence City Commission’s early 2016 budget discussions.
That’s because during a budget workshop last month the Lawrence City Commission was presented a proposal to raise that city’s water rates in 2016 and 2017.
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Associated Press
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June 30, 2015
- Westar Energy says a U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on toxic emissions at power plants could save the company millions.
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Staff reports
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June 30, 2015
- Veteran Lawrence Journal-World reporter and columnist Chad Lawhorn has been named managing editor of the newspaper.
As managing editor, Lawhorn will oversee the Journal-World’s staff of editors, reporters and photographers as well as the news staffs for The World Company’s weekly newspapers in Baldwin City, Tonganoxie, Bonner Springs and Shawnee.
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June 30, 2015
- As she was explaining her reasons Friday for volunteering for last week’s ICan Shine bike camp at Baldwin High School, Laura McCall suddenly noticed young campers engaged in something she would not have thought impossible four days earlier.
“Look, they’re racing,” she said, pointing at two campers vying for inside position as they raced around a practice track set up on a Baldwin High School parking lot. “On Monday, they didn’t even know how to ride. To see how far they’ve come is amazing.”
