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- One Wreck Sparks Two More On I-470
Five people were injured in three separate accidents within a few hundred feet of each other on I-470 in Topeka Friday night.
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- Police Reveal New Details On Persons Of Interest
Police say they're looking for a man who witnesses report shot into a home in the Oakland neighborhood Sunday night then fled. One woman in that home was killed.
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- Volunteers Needed for Thanksgiving Dinner
Monetary donations are also very needed as the Community Thanksgiving Dinner Foundation prepares for the local feast Thursday. - Tree Delivered To Governor's Mansion
The Christmas Tree Growers Association delivered an early gift to the Governor's Mansion Friday.
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- Census Bureau Looking For Workers
The U.S. Census Bureau expects to hire thousands of people between now and next spring.
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- Security Lax at Los Alamos National Lab
Critics say the nation fails to protect its nuclear secrets at its own peril. - Winter Weather Sparks Disaster Declaration For 18 Kansas Counties
Damage from the season's first round of winter weather is estimated in the millions.
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- Food Sale At The Law Enforcement Center
Schwan's Fine Foods help raise funds for the Topeka Police Department.
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- Kansas Supreme Court Appoints Attorney For Jailed David Price
The Kansas Supreme Court appointed standby counsel for David Price, who's been jailed since August for indirect contempt.
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- Missing Person Reward Increased
A donor contributed $40,000 to help find Patricia Kimmi on Friday.
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- Topeka's Christmas Bureau Sees Increased Demand
Approximately 2900 households applied for help from the United Way's Christmas Bureau this year.
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- Fatal Hit And Run Suspect Charged
Police believe Joel Hernandez was under the influence of alcohol when his car struck Leek who was riding her bicycle in the early morning hours of October 16.
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- Protests Continue Over Inmate's Death
Bias Busters holds its second protest outside of the Shawnee Co. jail, calling for answers into the death of inmate John Bradley Rippee, who died in November.
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- Missing Jefferson County Man Found
Perry police officers found 77-year-old Oliver "Richard" Goza 3 miles outside Perry.
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- Wanamaker Elementary Cooks Up Some Thanks
Calling all friends and family is what Wanamaker Elementary was saying for Thanksgiving lunch.
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- Special Saturday Session For Adoptees
The Shawnee Co. Courthouse is going to stay open an extra day, and this time its for a holiday: National Adoption Day. According to TFI, 129,000 foster children in the United States are waiting to find loving homes to adopt them.
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- Dads Join Berryton Students For Doughnuts
Plenty of pops showed up for the school's second annual Doughnuts with Dads party. Students got a break from classes and a chance to see their dads in a different context.
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- 'Office' Plotlines Reflect Recession Anxieties
Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper company at the center of NBC's prime-time comedy "The Office," is facing bankruptcy. Staffers in the Scranton branch are anxious about their fate.
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- Bus With Miley Cyrus Tour In Accident, One Dead
A tour bus crashed in Virginia on I-85 killing one. The bus is reported to be with the Miley Cyrus concert tour. - California Students Occupy Buildings To Protest Fee Hike
University of California students were occupying buildings on several of the system's campuses Friday in protest of a 32 percent tuition hike.
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- Cancer Screenings Under Scrutiny
It's been a confusing week for women. On Monday, it started with breast cancer. A federal advisory board made a controversial recommendation that women begin routine mammograms at age 50, rather than at 40.
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- Mid-Evening Headlines & News to Know
Mid-evening news and information to know.
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- Former State Dept. Official, Wife To Plead Guilty To Spy Charges
A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges.
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- FAA Computer Glitch Affects Hundreds Of Flights
Some 819 airline flights were delayed and an unknown number canceled Thursday after a Federal Aviation Administration telecommunications router glitch, though the agency said some of the delays were weather-related.
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- Baby Gorillas In Congo Getting A New Playpen: Paradise
The only two baby mountain gorillas in captivity -- orphaned two years ago after their mothers were slain in massacres -- will soon be getting a lush, new playpen, Congo's wildlife authority announced Friday.
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- Crime Ring Sold Human Fat, Peru Says
Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.
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- FDIC Announces 124th Bank Failure
State regulators shuttered Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, Fla., Friday night, bringing the 2009 national tally to 124.
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- Alcatraz Takeover Recalled 40 Years Later
Alcatraz Island was a chilly, unwelcoming place once reserved for infamous criminals. Not even the federal government appeared to want it after the penitentiary closed in the 1960s.
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- Justice Prosecutors Drop Manslaughter Charge Against One Blackwater Guard
Federal prosecutors in Washington announced Friday they will dismiss a manslaughter charge against one of the Blackwater contractors charged in a high-profile shooting incident in Baghdad two years ago.
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- Court Hearing For Fort Hood Suspect To Be Held In Hospital
Prosecutors have requested a pretrial confinement hearing for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan in his hospital room on Saturday, Hasan's attorney told CNN Friday.
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- Dorgan Decries 'Unbelievable Waste' Of High-Priced Border Crossings
Spending millions of dollars to revamp remote border crossings in Montana and North Dakota is an "unbelievable waste" of stimulus money, Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota said Friday.
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- Police: 2 Suspects Charged With Murder In Killings; Third Suspect Shot Dead
Authorities have charged two people with murder in the slaying of five people in Arkansas last week, police said Friday.
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- MTA To New Yorkers: There's A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
After reading the back of their MetroCards, New Yorkers might feel a twinge of optimism during their morning commute.
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- Amanda Knox Tortured, Killed Roommate, Prosecutor Says In Closing
Accompanied by two smitten young men vying to impress her, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and then plunged it into her roommate's neck, killing her, an Italian prosecutor charged in closing arguments Friday.
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- Former State Dept. Official, Wife To Plead Guilty To Spy Charges
A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, say they intend to plead guilty to federal charges.
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- Wal-Mart Scuffle Prompts Racism Claims
Whether Heather Ellis cut in line or merely switched checkout lanes to join her cousin is in dispute, and the accounts of what happened next vary greatly. The debate has divided this economically struggling town of 11,000 along racial lines.
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- California students Occupy Buildings To Protest Fee Hike
Students were occupying buildings Friday on campuses of the University of California system in protest of a 32 percent tuition hike.
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- World Is Small For Mileage Millionaires
It can take years to snag a reservation at El Bulli, a restaurant in Spain that's been called the best in the world, so when Gary Leff got the word that he'd finally gotten in, he whisked his wife across the Atlantic -- just for dinner.
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- Mandela and Machel Voted Children's Champions
Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel have been crowned the "Decade Child Rights Heroes" in a vote cast by children from all over the world.
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- What To Expect In Senate's Saturday Health Care Vote
To debate or not to debate the Senate's health care reform bill; that is the question.
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- Woman Accused In Walmart Incident Takes The Stand
A woman accused of cutting in line in a Walmart, shoving merchandise and assaulting police officers took the stand Friday and denied all charges in the racially charged case.
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- Bus With Miley Cyrus Tour In Accident, One Dead
A tour bus crashed in Virginia on I-85 killing one. The bus is reported to be with the Miley Cyrus concert tour.
- Democrats Slam GOP As Party Of 'Fear' In Health Care Debate
Traditional Senate decorum yielded to brass-knuckle politicking in the health care debate Friday as top congressional Democrats sought to close party ranks before a key procedural vote this weekend.
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- How An Ex-Con Landed A Job
Gregory Headley got himself a job. That's quite a feat in today's economy, even for the most qualified job hunters. But for an ex-convict, it feels like a miracle.
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- Justice Investigation Finds $200,000 Awarded To ACORN-Affiliated Groups
About $200,000 in Justice Department funds ended up in the coffers of the activist grass-roots community-organizing group ACORN or its affiliated organizations in recent years, the Justice Department watchdog says in a newly released report.
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- Toys R Us To Open At Midnight On Thanksgiving
For some Black Friday shoppers, a 5 a.m. start just isn't early enough, so Toys R Us has upped the ante.
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- Topeka Man Dies From H1N1 Infection
A 75 year-old man from the Topeka metropolitan area has died from infection with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced Friday.
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- Baby Gorillas In Congo Getting A New Playpen: Paradise
The only two baby mountain gorillas in captivity -- orphaned two years ago after their mothers were slain in massacres -- will soon be getting a lush, new playpen, Congo's wildlife authority announced Friday.
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- Right-Wing Activists Attack India TV Station
A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation against the channel's "bias" against their veteran leader.
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- Abraham Lincoln's Note To Schoolboy Sells For $60,000
Less than a month before the start of the Civil War, a newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to a child in Illinois whose classmates didn't believe he'd met the president.
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