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Mobile grocery truck to open in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — It won't be long before a grocery store on wheels pulls up in the Cowley County towns of Burden, Udall and Dexter. The Cowley County Anchor Mobile Market will be one of the first mobile markets in the nation trying to solve t...

 

Kansas man gives back to community through soup

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — In 2016, Walter Clemons had a heart attack. God saved his life, he said, so now he's giving back, one pot of soup at a time. "It's a blessing to be able to help them," Clemons told The Wichita Eagle . "It just does something f...

 

Son of BTK victim tells his story of faith

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — In 1996, five years after his mother's murder, Jeff Davis painfully wrote the first edition of his book. It didn't get much attention. Yet the book did inspire a letter to Davis, signed only as "A Taxpayer." The Wichita Eagle r...

 

Kansas school helps students with discipline records

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Maniah Martinez, 14, doesn't like sitting still. She stands up from her desk while doing school work, fidgets during lunch, and leans back in her chair and plays with her sweater during group time. When she made an A on a g...

 

Kansas hospital begins using new ambulance for infants

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — On a recent Tuesday afternoon, the neonatal ambulance pulled up at Wesley Medical Center. The back doors swung open and a power lift lowered the cot, carrying a tiny baby in an incubator, to the ground. Within minutes, the b...

 

Greek iconographer shares religious art knowledge in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Theodoros Papadopoulos has painted images of Christ, the Virgin Mary and angels that cover the walls and ceilings of churches. Those images are not decorations, he said. Rather, they are a way of "meeting with the divine." "...

 

Kansas churches get creative with baptisteries

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Rachel Bocobo remembers being baptized twice in traditional baptisteries at the front of a sanctuary, people looking up at her from the pews. Those times, once as a child and later an adult, she chose to be baptized because she w...

 

Anti-drug mentor deals with son's drug-related death

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Lynn Gilkey and her husband, David, had just loaded two dozen young people they mentor on a bus for a spring break trip in March that was supposed to give the teens hope. When word came that one of the teens supposed to make t...

 

Wichita group follows church model without religion

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — People at Wichita Oasis start showing up at around 10 a.m. on Sunday morning, drinking coffee and chatting before the music begins. Once children are safely in the large playroom — complete with a chalk wall, a tent and ple...

 

Wichita men pray before Eucharist overnight for 33 years

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — It's peaceful in the chapel at 3 in the morning, with only the sound of a softly ticking clock or the occasional rustling from the two men kneeling, one clasping a rosary. Two candles flicker at the sides of the Eucharist; the c...

 

Jackson students explore virtual reality

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Tommy Lowe, 15, felt the heart pumping in his hand as he pulled it out of the screen in front of him. With a flick of his wrist, he turned the beating heart around, then clicked a button to make it beat faster, then faster ...

 

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