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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...
The 'personality of Sedgwick County' retires at 91
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — If you sit at the reception desk at the Sedgwick County Courthouse long enough, you might end up saving somebody's job — or maybe somebody's life. And Eula West sat at that desk for a very long time — since 1969. Do the math...
Netflix films hit documentary series in Kansas
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) — It's a drizzly Thursday afternoon on the football practice field at Independence Community College, and coach Jason Brown berates his players with a profanity-laced speech about marijuana. "Weed is getting ridiculous in the...