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• Gallery Alley isn't going away, at least not for another six months

  23-05-2018 14:52
  Artist Josh Tripoli and Rebekah Lewis painted a mural in Gallery Alley in downtown Wichita with the help of volunteers. The art project was inspired to get young people downtown and get people excited about their city.
  
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• A new 'home'

  23-05-2018 09:50
  Tribune-Star/Joseph C. GarzaA larger living room: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology freshmen Trent Shephard of Warsaw and Hunter Crumly of Springfield, Ill., study in the living room of the newly renovated student union on Tuesday on the Rose-Hulman campus. Tribune-Star/Joseph C. GarzaPlenty of green space: The renovation of the student union at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology wasn't just on the inside but the outside as well with more green space surrounding the structure itself for stude
  
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• Woman who shot Kansas abortion doctor moved to halfway house

  23-05-2018 05:13
  An anti-abortion activist who shot and wounded a Kansas abortion doctor and firebombed clinics in Oregon and other states in the 1990s was released Tuesday from federal prison to a halfway house to finish her sentence, sparking fears for the safety of abortion clinic workers. The Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, Minnesota confirmed Rachelle "Shelley" Shannon has been released, and sent to a halfway house where she will finish a 20-year sentence related to two Oregon cases of arson and
  
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• Wichita member of Insane Crips gang indicted on drug, gun charges

  23-05-2018 05:13
  Charles L. Hervey, 21, of Wichita, is a member of the Insane Crips gang and was charged with multiple crimes, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a release . He is charged with two counts of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a user of controlled substances and one count of maint
  
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• Liquor store employee shot robber in leg as he ran away, police say

  23-05-2018 02:50
  An employee shot one of two suspects after a liquor store robbery in southeast Wichita on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Officers called to F&K Liquor at Lincoln and Woodlawn at around 12:30 p.m. found an 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his leg, Officer Charley Davidson said.
  
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• Community mural brings Wichitans downtown

  23-05-2018 02:50
  Artist Josh Tripoli and Rebekah Lewis painted a mural in Gallery Alley in downtown Wichita with the help of volunteers. The art project was inspired to get young people downtown and get people excited about their city.
  
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• Brewer picks another ex-mayor Kansas governor's race ticket

  22-05-2018 21:53
  Former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer has picked another ex-mayor from the state's most populous county as his running mate for the Democratic nomination for governor. The 55-year-old Morrow was a Gardner City Council member before serving as the Johnson County city's mayor for more than four years.
  
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• West Kellogg in Wichita has a new restaurant as of Monday

  22-05-2018 19:35
  On Monday, Jose Ayala opened his new La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant in the spot at 5905 W. Kellogg formerly occupied by Monterrey Mexican Grill , which closed in December after 13 years in business. This is an expansion for the Ayala family, which has run its original La Hacienda at 1138 N. Nelson Drive in Derby for the past four years.
  
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• Mountain biker killed by cougar was a native Kansan. He did nearly everything right

  22-05-2018 19:35
  People rarely get more than a brief glimpse of a mountain lion in the wild. Lion attacks on people are rare, with fewer than a dozen fatalities in North America in more than 100 years.
  
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• Tyler Barriss, man accused of fatal 'swatting' call, to appear in court Tuesday

  22-05-2018 17:02
  The 25-year-old Los Angeles man who is accused of making the "swatting" call that led a Wichita police officer to fatally shoot a father of two in late December is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning. It's the first time Tyler Barriss will be in court since his extradition hearing in Los Angeles, days after his Dec. 29 arrest.
  
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• Kansas judge weighs evidence in deadly hoax call case

  22-05-2018 17:02
  This 2015 file booking photo released by the Glendale, Calif., Police Department shows Tyler Barriss. Barriss, who is accused of making a hoax call on Dec. 28, 2017, that led to police shooting an unarmed man in Wichita, Kan., is scheduled to return to court Tuesday, May 22, 2018, in Wichita where a judge is set to decide if there is enough evidence to put him on trial for involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
  
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• Old Town's newest nightclub will feature go-go dancers, wall-length video screens

  22-05-2018 14:37
  Next month, Fever Nightlife will open at 116 N. Mead, the latest club to occupy that seemingly ever-changing space. And it will really be two nightclubs in one - one side of the club will play Top 40 music and the other will play exclusively Latin music.
  
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• Land purchase voids need to replace bridge

  22-05-2018 09:49
  Held a 90-minute executive session to review city administrator applications and narrow the field to the finalists.
  
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• Architect Kenton Cox left 'such a legacy' in Wichita and area school districts

  22-05-2018 05:16
  Kenton Cox of Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture shared drawings of what later became Wichita's Northeast Magnet High School in 2011. Cox, an architect with Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey, managed educational building projects in Kansas and elsewhere.
  
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• Watch: More than a dozen arrested after occupying Kobach office

  22-05-2018 00:42
  Police arrested more a dozen people Monday after they occupied a room in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office to protest his positions on voter identification and immigration. The Advanced Learning Library is getting the books from the old downtown library moved over currently as they get ready for their grand opening June 16. Sedgwick County Commissioner Richard Ranzau, who had been openly critical of fellow commissioner Michael O'Donnell during public meetings, reacts to the news tha
  
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• Wichita in 'Best Cities for Jobs 2018'

  21-05-2018 22:24
  Last year's publication contains a more detailed explanation of how the rankings capture current year-growth, mid-term growth, and momentum. Despite this news, Wichita leaders are in denial.
  
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• Owners of Wichita's only Cajun restaurant planning a new concept for the west side

  21-05-2018 10:19
  Members of the Granger family, founders of Da Cajun Shak at 6249 E. 21st St., have long wanted to expand their business to Wichita's west side. Chris Granger, who opened Wichita's only Cajun restaurant in 2005, said his wife, Pattie, and son, Tim, have signed a lease on a west-side space.
  
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• Group's fresh approach to F&I training pays off

  21-05-2018 07:59
  Wichita, Kan., dealership group Brandon Steven Motors has transformed its finance and insurance operations and lifted F&I profit per vehicle by updating training techniques and adjusting processes. Dan Mason, corporate platform finance director at Brandon Steven Motors, has transformed the dealership group's finance and insurance operations and lifted F&I profit per vehicle by putting his managers in the hot seat.
  
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• Day-Two Restored 1968 Chevelle Time Capsule

  20-05-2018 20:39
  For more than two hundred million years, dinosaurs pummeled the Jurassic landscape. Yikes, they were all over the place.
  
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• Kansas Profile | Farm To Fork program brings different county perspectives together

  20-05-2018 16:09
  That statement is based on the belief that sharing food in a family setting can help people bridge their differences. Today we'll learn about an innovative county organization which has put this concept into practice with a nationally award-winning program called Farm to Fork.
  
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• Severe Thunderstorm Warning Source: Weather Central

  20-05-2018 11:33
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• Brewer, running mate to visit Hutch Wednesday

  20-05-2018 07:21
  Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Carl Brewer, Wichita, will announce his running mate Tuesday in Topeka, in front of the newly unveiled Brown v.
  
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• Editorial: State's aid to Cargill cause for concern

  20-05-2018 02:59
  Earlier this week, Kansas taxpayers learned about a questionable economic development deal that rewards Cargill with $1.6 million in funding for essentially reducing its workforce and then bringing it back to existing levels over a 24-month period. The state's interim Commerce Secretary Bob North defended the deal, saying, "The purpose for the PEAK retention package was to keep the headquarters in Wichita rather than lose the project to another state." Let us first state we are glad Cargill is r
  
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• Next round of severe storms to rattle central US into Saturday evening

  19-05-2018 22:37
  Following a plethora of damaging wind and hail reports in the western Plains on Friday, the next round of severe thunderstorms has its sights set on the central and southern Plains into Saturday evening. In addition to destructive wind gusts and large hail, storms into Friday night also dumped copious amounts of rain in localized areas.
  
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• Your kid can get a free bike on Saturday (and any day after) thanks to this group

  19-05-2018 18:14
  But even if you don't show up in time to snag one, you can still get one. Bike Walk Wichita has a downtown building full of donated bikes, which its volunteers lovingly rehab and prepare for new owners.
  
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• 'Plant deputies' to descend on downtown with a new trick up their gardening gloves

  19-05-2018 13:28
  Cindy Carnahan and her team of "plant deputies" are hitting Douglas downtown again on Saturday to fill the 113 planters there with new plants. Shortly after, 84 hanging baskets will follow for the first time.
  
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• Man who took part in torture killing will spend the rest of his life in prison

  19-05-2018 09:02
  Five people were charged in connection with the disappearance and torture killing of 33-year-old Scottie Goodpaster. They are, clockwise from top left: Willie E. Morris, Alexandria Scott, Jeff Hillard, Brian Bussart and Heidi Hillard.
  
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• CEO leaves Wichita entrepreneurial group

  19-05-2018 02:56
  A privately funded group aimed at developing startups and helping grow established Wichita companies is looking for a new chief executive. John Dascher had announced in March that he would step down from e2e Accelerator, which "incubates, accelerates and invests in growth oriented companies."
  
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• Alicia Thompson brought the energy in her first year. Wichita schools benefited

  19-05-2018 02:56
  Superintendent Alicia Thompson said she wants to continue to address perceptions of the Wichita school district as she begins a second year in the job. Thompson, a Wichita native, has worked in the district 26 years.
  
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• A busy spring for a Wichita student: Princeton, Yale, and now Miss Teen USA

  19-05-2018 02:56
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• Get your bibimbap on the go at tonight's A Night at the Fountains food truck rally.

  19-05-2018 00:55
  The other big monthly food truck rally that happens at the Wichita WaterWalk is scheduled for tonight from 5 to 8 p.m., and it'll be a nice night for it - not too hot, not too windy and the flies haven't even hatched yet. The event, called A Night at the Fountains , happens on the third Friday of the month during warm-weather seasons at the Wichita Waterwalk, 515 S. Main.
  
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• Wichita car dealership banned from selling unless it hands over titles, signs paperwork

  18-05-2018 20:39
  A Wichita car dealership has been barred from doing business unless it provides car titles to customers and its staff signs purchase agreements and discloses active safety recalls. Sedgwick County District Court Judge Warren Wilbert issued a restraining order Friday against Quality Used Cars, 2759 S. Broadway, according to a news release from the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office.
  
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• He was arrested again for breaking into cars, police say. It's the fourth time this year

  18-05-2018 20:39
  Wichita police nabbed a 32-year-old man on suspicion of breaking into an unlocked vehicle last week - and they say it's the fourth time this year that he's been arrested for breaking into other people's cars. In this latest case, Adam Tyler Quick was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail for getting into a vehicle in the 1700 block of North Tunis, near 13th and Ridge, and damaging its ignition shortly after 7 a.m. on May 9, according to Wichita police records and agency spokesman Charley Davidson
  
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• Meet Jaime Dupy, director of investor and strategic development at the chamber

  18-05-2018 16:16
  Dupy has filled a number of positions since coming to the chamber in 2012 as coordinator of a fundraising campaign that raised more than $9 million for economic development. She transferred to a job supporting the Young Professionals of Wichita, then worked on small business services and governmental relations before becoming director of investor relations, which is focused on larger chamber members.
  
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• Marijuana could be legal in Kansas next year, says governor candidate Josh Svaty

  18-05-2018 11:44
  And Svaty, a Democrat who has served in the Legislature and as state agriculture secretary, said he'd be open to signing legislation to get rid of criminal penalties for pot possession if he wins the governor race. "I think that it's very possible we could see a bill on my desk within maybe the next year," he said.
  
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• New movies in Wichita for the week of May 18, 2018

  18-05-2018 07:33
  "Deadpool 2" - Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson/Deadpool returns, forming a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling mutant Cable . "Book Club" - It's amazing that a pedigreed cast such as this - with Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen - comes together for this movie, a comedy about lifelong friends whose lives change after reading "50 Shades of Grey" in their monthly book club.
  
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• Wichita officer saved woman who looked like she was 'carrying a big ball of fire'

  18-05-2018 03:26
  Wichita Police officer Alex Bieler was on a routine patrol when he saw a woman coming out of a restaurant while covered in flames. Bieler recounts how he sprang into action when he came up on the scene.
  
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• Wichitans say goodbye to the third child abuse victim in four weeks

  18-05-2018 01:17
  Past the long row of Bikers Against Child Abuse motorcycles, past a black hearse and beyond a stained glass window proclaiming "Saint Joseph Church, 1916," Tony's body was there. Just inside the church door.
  
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• Man gets probation for crash that killed 72-year-old Wichitan

  18-05-2018 01:17
  The man responsible for a crash that killed a 72-year-old Wichita man last summer was ordered Wednesday to spend three years on probation. Cody McFarlane, 21, pleaded guilty in March to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated battery in the July 2 collision that killed James "Jim" McDaniel and injured McDaniel's 16-year-old grandson.
  
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• Wichita's top chefs, including new 6S Steakhouse chef, are preparing for battle

  17-05-2018 23:16
  Chef Josh Rathbun of Siena Tuscan Steakhouse, who competed last year with Schane Gross of The Anchor at the Celebrity & Chef Cookoff, will return to the competition this year. Chef Josh Rathbun of Siena Tuscan Steakhouse, who competed last year with Schane Gross of The Anchor at the Celebrity & Chef Cookoff, will return to the competition this year.
  
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• The great 'pineapple-on-pizza' debate bubbles up in Wichita, and it's getting heated

  17-05-2018 21:05
  Although he thinks that pineapple belongs anywhere but on pizza, Piatto owner Robert McMullin is giving in for National Pizza Party Day. Although he thinks that pineapple belongs anywhere but on pizza, Piatto owner Robert McMullin is giving in for National Pizza Party Day.
  
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• Man who attacked gas station clerk trapped in store until officers arrived, police say

  17-05-2018 21:05
  The clerk, a 24-year-old man, was outside holding the front door shut to the Circle K convenience store at 515 N. Seneca when police responded to a stabbing call there at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, Wichita police spokesman Charley Davidson said. The clerk had several minor stab wounds on his body that weren't life-threatening but that required a hospital trip.
  
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• State lawmakers question Cargill incentives package

  17-05-2018 19:01
  Some Kansas lawmakers have expressed discomfort with the Commerce Department's operations and authority to reward companies without proving the value of taxpayer investments. The department crafted an economic incentives package in 2016 to keep a food products supplier's headquarters in Wichita.
  
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• One last chance to see Monet, Matisse paintings in Wichita

  17-05-2018 14:35
  Kate Wight Tyler, a conservator at the Brooklyn Museum, shows us how she inspects its art at every museum it is loaned out to. The exhibition opens at the Wichita Art Museum on Feb. 24. Additional footage by Jaime Green, music from bensound.com.
  
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• Kobach campaign shake-up: Consultant, aide are out as race intensifies

  17-05-2018 12:15
  Kris Kobach has parted with a key consultant and a longtime aide, part of a campaign shakeup as the race for governor enters an intense summer period. The Republican secretary of state has also elevated a state lawmaker to campaign manager and picked the former editor of a conservative news site as his new spokeswoman.
  
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• What's next in Lucas Hernandez case after not guilty verdict in stepmom's separate case

  17-05-2018 07:51
  Emily Glass was found not guilt of child endangerment in case involving her one-year-old daughter. District attorney Marc Bennett says she remains the primary witness in the case of her missing stepson, Lucas Hernandez.
  
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• Pain at the pump: Wichita can expect gas prices to continue to climb

  17-05-2018 05:42
  Wichitans have no doubt noticed the price at the gas pump going up, and, due to a combination of market and seasonal forces, the increase is likely to continue in the months ahead. Driving up the prices are the impact on oil prices of the return of sanctions on Iran, the annual switch over to higher-cost summer blends and overall demand that is outpacing supply.
  
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• Wayne Woolsey

  17-05-2018 01:12
  Wichita oil producer Wayne Woolsey and his wife, Kay, are giving $10 million to help build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business. Another $2 million is being donated to Wichita State's department of geology to support its petroleum geology program and field camp experiences for students.
  
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• Wichita Flea Market to replace the former Park City one

  16-05-2018 20:26
  Jimmy Spillman has a career in finance but now has "just a fun little secondary job," if you can call organizing 357 vendors for the new Wichita Flea Market either fun or little. Spillman is bringing the market to the Expo Hall at Century II for four weekends between now and the end of the year.
  
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• Owner of about-to-reopen Wichita eatery is juiced about his new secret outdoor space

  16-05-2018 20:26
  Austin Dugan plans to reopen his 86 Cold Press in a much larger new space near Old Mill Tasty Shop on Saturday. Austin Dugan plans to reopen his 86 Cold Press in a much larger new space near Old Mill Tasty Shop on Saturday.
  
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