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Kansas county chooses not to observe COVID 'emergency'
SEDAN, Kan. (AP) — Greetings from Chautauqua, the only county in Kansas where COVID-19 isn't an emergency. This bucolic and remote county, nestled on the Oklahoma border 100 highway miles southeast of Wichita, is the only place in Kansas that i...
Kansas prisons have some expectant mothers behind bars
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Alexa Baugh eagerly waits for the day she can hold her son outside of a Kansas prison. The 25-year-old from Hutchinson sees her son, Angel, on weekends whenever her parents make the trek to the Topeka Correctional Facility. B...
Police chief who killed active shooter speaks publicly
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — When Hesston police chief Doug Schroeder sat down at his desk to take an exam on workplace violence, he didn't know he'd need that knowledge that day. Nine miles away, Cedric Larry Ford was in his trailer taking a video on his p...
Kansas man opens tattoo parlor after 25 years in prison
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Forrest Stucky was recently released from prison and started asking around about tattoos. Luis Gutierrez's name kept coming up, so Stucky went to Gutierrez's new shop to get a tattoo on his neck. "Usually, if you want some rea...
Students in Kansas school learn gun handling for class
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Mary Beth Fulk teaches a class based on life skills at Fairfield High School: changing a tire, writing a resume and properly handling and shooting a .357 magnum. This is the second year Fulk has taught the handy work e...
