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DALLAS (AP) The tightknit congregation at a Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff over the weekend traces its roots back to a gathering organized over 20 years ago by a handful of families who were new to the area.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas suspended two fraternities for hazing earlier this month, but officials don’t plan to share their investigation with police.

TOPEKA — The Kansas Chamber wants the Legislature to deploy a big chunk of the state’s budget surplus toward shrinking tax rates and making one-time economic investments while restraining government regulation, electricity costs and court involvement in K-12 funding decisions.

MOUNDRIDGE – In the middle of a couple of school years filled with edginess due to a health pandemic, Moundridge United School District 423 also needed to find a new leader and they found one rich in motivating and challenging the district while being young at heart.

BOSTON (AP) — Navient, a major student loan collecting company, agreed to cancel $1.7 billion in debt owed by more than 66,000 borrowers across the U.S. and pay over $140 million in other penalties to settle allegations of abusive lending practices.

TOPEKA — Dec. 15, 2021, began as just another day for Chris Pelton, a rancher living in Paradise, but in a matter of hours a ravenous wildfire flipped his life, home and livelihood upside down.

It’s time for the annual Topeka Farm Show. ​ According to Brock Nelson from Tradexpos in Austin, Minnesota, the show is January 11-12-13, at the Stormont Vail Events Center.