Matthew Kirk has an unpleasant task: breaking the news to families about fertilizer chemicals in their drinking water. The Kansas State University geology professor and his collaborators check for nitrogen pollution in the private wells that so many rural households depend on.

The change of the calendar year also signals a change in trajectory for medical care offered at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. CRMC has announced their “Build for the Future” fund drive that will represent the construction of a 12,000-square foot primary care facility to be located immediately south of the CRMC main campus on 4th Street in Coffeyville.

Seven college basketball players who competed for Kansas a year ago are earning minutes for different teams after moving on via the transfer portal. Here’s a look at how MJ Rice, Kyle Cuffe, Bobby Pettiford, Joseph Yesufu, Ernest Udeh, Zuby Ejiofor and Cam Martin are faring at their new schools.

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Dear Annie: I've dated my boyfriend for more than 12 years. We got along fine when his grown kids were out of the picture, but now they're back living with him. His youngest is 21, yet he treats them like infants. The daughters are manipulating and controlling. When I bring up my feelings about the situation, he accuses me of being jealous and insecure. I feel I've wasted years in a relationship going nowhere.

(TNS) DENVER — A growing herd of 250 bison, reintroduced at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge to help restore toxic wasteland to the native short-grass prairie, often descends through a floodplain to reach First Creek and cross to the northern half of the refuge.

The Christmas celebration is in remembrance of the birth of Jesus. He was born to be rejected by men and eventually killed by the very people He came to save, why? The Bible tells us Jesus came to save those who would respond rightly to His sacrifice. Luke 2:14 says, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.” Scripture tells us we cannot save ourselves, but we cannot continue sinning willfully either. Since by going by the law no man is saved because he must keep every aspect of the law. Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the law or the prophets; I did not come to abolish but fulfill.”

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Looking backward over 2023 and looking forward to 2024 recalls ancient wisdom. Ecclesiastes: 'What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.' Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr employed different phraseology: 'The more things change, the more they stay the same.' Lord Byron in 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' put it this way: 'History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page.' The choreography and personalities change, but the human narrative remains the same.

Being an American of working-class origins, I've lived most of my life among people who say 'statue of limitations' instead of 'statute of limitations.' That's OK. I always know what they mean, and the main purpose of language is for us to know what the person we're talking to wants to say.