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Upcoming State Election Coverage

We are introducing live online election results for the August 2nd races in Kansas. Visit your newspaper’s website @ https://www.sjnewsonline.com/ on August 2 for complete coverage. Please note that when you click the election coverage button you will be routed to The Newton Kansan, the digital home of Cherry- Road Media Kansas Election Coverage.

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Evergy pays $500K to settle consumer protection investigation into worthless warranties

Kansas’ largest electric utility, Evergy, must pay $500,000 for allegedly violating consumer protection laws by sponsoring home electrical warranties that provided no benefit. Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office announced the agreement between prosecutors and Evergy in a news release Wednesday.

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Two houses under construction in St. John, courtesy of Stafford County Economic Development

Stafford EcoDevo is working on the construction of ten new rental houses in Stafford County. A sample of the house was completed in August 2021 in St. John. The design was based on a K-State prototype. The first duplicate of the house was completed in Hudson in February 2022, then three houses in Stafford. Now, two houses are being built at the corner of Monroe and First Street.

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AG Derek Schmidt: Medical treatment for ectopic pregnancy, fetal demise not ‘abortion’ so not affected by ‘Value Them Both’ Amendment

TOPEKA -- ( July 22, 2022) - Medical treatment for ectopic pregnancies or fetal demise is not ‘abortion’ under Kansas law and therefore would not be affected by passage of the proposed Value Them Both constitutional amendment, Attorney General Derek Schmidt said last Friday in a formal legal opinion.

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Governor creates Wildfire Task Force

Three months of extreme fire danger and threat in Kansas left their mark as hundreds of acres burned in separate fires in Reno and Harvey County this spring. Pratt and Kiowa County firefighters also had their share of grass and field fires to battle, while lighting strikes caused three massive grass fires in Stafford County last April.

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Emma Stimatze named to the Dean’s List at Palmer College of Chiropractic

DAVENPORT, IA (07/25/2022)-- Emma Stimatze of Macksville, Kansas has been named to the spring 2022 Dean’s List at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Main campus in Davenport, Iowa. Palmer College of Chiropractic, the first and largest college in the chiropractic profession, has campuses in Davenport, Iowa; San Jose, California; and Port Orange, Florida.

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