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Ten of this year’s most destructive weather events cost a combined $170 billion in damages, according to a new study. Hurricane Ida, a tropical storm that pummeled much of the eastern U.S.

A crew from the Guinness Book of World Records is recording a video of a new world record holder. And where do you suppose this world record holder is found? Would you believe, in rural Kansas? Today we’ll meet a family which is producing longhorn cattle that are setting global records.

Just before Thomas Randele died, his wife of nearly 40 years asked his golfing buddies and his co-workers from the dealerships where he sold cars to come by their home. They gathered to say goodbye to a guy they called one of the nicest people they’d ever known – a devoted family man who gushed about his daughter, a golfer who never bent the rules, a friend to so many that a line stretched outside the funeral home a week later.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An upcoming addition to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will have a forwardlooking focus that’s flexible as space exploration evolves.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Like many travel magazines, Conde Nast Traveler is looking ahead to travel trends and destinations for the coming year. But CN Traveler editors have taken a different tack, choosing destinations, digital director Stephanie Wu says, “based on some of our favorite reasons to travel, from exhilarating food and drink scenes and historic sites to explore, to new places to soak in the great outdoors.”

Have you been around the world? Visited more than 100 countries? Then congratulations: You’re part of an exclusive travel club. Ron Levin has done both.

Recovering from recent intense storms and fires has placed a stranglehold on many in agriculture. On Dec. 15, Kansans watched as a derecho, an intense, widespread and fast-moving storm, rolled across the prairie.

Kansas county health officers continue to leave their jobs in significant numbers after losing the power they formerly had to take any steps necessary to slow the spread of outbreaks of disease, says soon-to-retire public health official Gianfranco Pezzino.

Brandy Carlson has a lot to be nervous about. Her husband would have been released from his prison term at Hutchinson Correctional Facility in September if he had received good time credit, as the family expected, for his kidnapping sentence.