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Rural residents fear post office will face cuts
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — The card from California arrived at the Ellsworth Post Office, addressed only to "Grandma and Grandpa, Rural Route, Ellsworth, Kansas." In rural Kansas, mail clerks are expected to have encyclopedic knowledge of who lives w...
Kansans struggle without high-speed internet
COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan. (AP) — The internet service was so bad at Citizens State Bank in Cottonwood Falls that its computers could hardly handle a routine update from Microsoft. So not too long ago, bank vice president Matt Lindamood loaded up the PCs...
Sand mines booming in Kansas but neighbors object
LINWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Northeast Kansas farmer Mark Tinberg views his work as a calling. But the land is vanishing out from under him. More than 600 acres of crop fields he tended have been lost to commercial development over the years. Factories, w...
Iowa student's invention helps pigs avoid getting squished
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The story of how an Iowa college student came to invent life-saving wearable technology for pigs sounds a bit like an infomercial. Matthew Rooda was working in a massive swine-raising operation while going to school and g...
