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1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (523+ words) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — KSHB 41 News anchor Lindsay Shively offers coverage on a wide variety of topics, Reach out to Linsday via email. Over a 1,000 miles away and 25 years later, a steel beam from ground zero stands in Overland Park. The…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1124+ words) For nearly four decades, Joe Martin worked to make wheat better suited for the farmers and fields of western Kansas. Today, his influence remains planted across the state, carried through varieties, genetics and a wheat breeding program he helped shape…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (909+ words) Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor’s daughter who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a spouse into office, has died. She was 94. Kassebaum Baker died Friday of natural causes, according to her son, Bill Kassebaum....