| May 22, 2007 | - An area of Topeka, Kansas, was shut down after a robot in a headdress was spotted near the Capitol.
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KWCH
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| April 29, 2007 | - A man with a rifle opened fire in a Kansas City Target, killing at least two people before police killed him.
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Los Angeles Times
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| May 5, 2006 | -
Kansas raised its minimum marriage age to 15.
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MSNBC
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| December 20, 2005 | - In Lawrence, Kansas, three women quit their gym because there was a Christmas tree decorated with plastic fetuses in its lobby.
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WPXI.com
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| December 11, 2005 | - A religious studies professor at the University of Kansas was beaten up on a roadside after he mocked creationism in an email.
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CantonRep.com
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| November 21, 2005 | - The Kansas Board of Education had redefined “science” so that it is “no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.”
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The Independent
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| August 14, 2005 | - In Kansas Dennis Rader, the B.T.K. serial killer, was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences; he will be eligible for parole in 2180. Rader believed that his victims would serve as his slaves in the afterlife, performing roles like "sex toy and boy servant."
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The Wichita Eagle
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| July 26, 2005 | - A Nebraska man was charged with having sex with the thirteen-year-old girl whom he had wed legally in Kansas.
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AP
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| July 26, 2005 | -
Kansas police took away, then returned, the left foot of an amputee named Ezekiel Rubottom, who had been keeping his foot in a bucket on a friend's porch. “It's all good,” said Rubottom.
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Lawrence Journal-World
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| June 30, 2005 | - Lightning struck a sleeping child's mattress in Kansas, sparked a wildfire in Alaska's interior, shocked a boy in New Hampshire through his video-game controller, killed both a golfer and a prisoner in Ohio, and struck the offices of the National Weather Service in Iowa.
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KTUU.com
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The Boston Channel
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WBNSTV
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TheIowaChannel.com
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| June 14, 2005 | - A Kansas teenager was in trouble for vomiting on his Spanish teacher.
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Boston.com
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| May 6, 2005 | - The Kansas state school board began four days of hearings on how to teach the origin of life; all of the witnesses in the hearing were opposed to teaching evolution.
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BBC News
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| February 26, 2005 | - Dennis Rader, an active Lutheran and a Cub Scout leader in Wichita, Kansas, confessed to six killings as the BTK (“bind, torture, and kill”) serial killer, wanted for thirty-one years.
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| February 25, 2005 | - The attorney general of Kansas demanded that clinics in his state turn over the medical records of girls who have received abortions and women who have had late-term abortions.
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CNN
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| February 11, 2005 | - A Kansas woman left mute by a 1984 head injury began to speak again. “Okay,” she said, “okay.”
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KansasCity.com
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| December 17, 2004 | - The supreme court of Kansas declared that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional but then issued a stay of its own ruling.
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Associated Press
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| April 10, 2004 | - The USDA rejected a request from a Kansas
beef company that asked for permission to test all its cattle for mad cow disease; the decision was announced by the department's undersecretary for marketing and regulation.
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New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - A large beef producer in Kansas applied to test all its cattle for mad cow disease so that it can resume exporting its beef to Japan. "The problem we're having now is that the U.S.D.A. is not wanting to do this," said the company's president. "They don't want to test. They don't want to recognize BSE is a problem. They are not going to allow anyone to test until they decide how or when. We believe that may be never."
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New York Times
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