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Is that parking ticket you got in Wichita legal? Maybe, maybe not
Wichita has decided to reinstate a controversial parking enforcement practice that has been declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court covering four other states, city officials said. Wichita has decided that it won’t scrap a method known as “chalking” tires,…
Rural Kansans Ask Lawmakers To Fix Slow Internet, Bad Highways That Are Holding Them Back
Rural Kansas communities hope to see roads, internet and taxes addressed in the upcoming 2020 legislative session. But some voters in the state’s southwest corner are worried that these decade-old issues will again take a back seat. On a Saturday…
Study determines central Topeka could support a full-service grocery store
After the Dillons food market at 1400 S.W. Huntoon St. closed almost four years ago, residents of central Topeka’s neighborhoods were devastated. “I knew it was coming, because me and the manager, Bob, talked a lot,” said Emma Ray, who…
Dog park proposed for Marion County Lake
Marion County Park and Lake is the newest proposed site of a dog park Marion’s girl scouts have been working on for months. The original proposed site was south of the Marion High School football stadium. When that didn’t work,…
Why Shawnee Mission Teachers – Already The Best Paid In Kansas – Are Asking For More Money
Negotiators for the Shawnee Mission School District and the teachers union are at an impasse and will now present their cases to a neutral party. On one side are teachers who feel overworked and underpaid. On the other side are…
County’s bill for autopsies tops $10,000
Marion County spent $10,216 in 2019 to have autopsies conducted in Kansas City and Wichita but there is no good alternative, said Karen Selznick, an assistant in Marion County Attorney’s office. According to Marion County’s 2019 reports, there were three…
Another push to save Century II, but will it help?
In an effort to help save Century II, a local group is petitioning to gain more than 5,000 signatures in hopes of moving the process one step forward. From buttons to yard signs and even t-shirts, Century II supporters are…
Pott. County Sheriff aiming to improve community outreach, launching new social media page
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Shane Jager (left) and Undersheriff Doug Adams (right) appeared on KMAN’s In Focus on Wednesday morning. (Brandon Peoples/KMAN) Some changes are on the horizon for outreach efforts for the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office. Shane Jager was promoted…
Topeka City Council OKs ordinance regarding panhandling
Topeka’s city government will ban pedestrians — including panhandlers — from interacting with people in vehicles at 23 of Topeka’s most dangerous intersections, though not at any other crossings. City council members voted 8-1 Tuesday evening to approve an ordinance…
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