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Headlines for Sunday, April 21, 2019

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Topeka Zookeeper Hospitalized after Tiger Attack

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — City officials say a tiger mauled a zookeeper at the Topeka Zoo. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, when a Sumatran tiger named Sanjiv tackled the worker in an enclosed outdoor space. Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley says the zookeeper suffered lacerations and puncture wounds to her head, neck and back. Wiley says she was awake and alert when she was taken by ambulance to a hospital and was in stable condition Saturday afternoon. The zookeeper's name has not been released. Wiley says the tiger will not be euthanized. The zoo was open at the time of the attack and was witnessed by some people. It reopened about 45 minutes after the attack. Officials are investigating what led up to the attack. Sanjiv came to the Topeka Zoo in August 2017 from a zoo in Akron, Ohio.

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Kansas Couple Designs "Glamping" Covered Wagons

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas couple is marketing covered wagons once used by pioneers to journey west as a luxury camping experience. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Dennis and Donna Steinman have built their first 26- by 10-foot wagon to accommodate those interested in the growing trend of high-end glamour camping, or "glamping." The Douglas County couple's canvas-covered wagons will be able to fit a king- or queen-sized bed, a bunk bed and a glass-topped wagon wheel table. Their PlainsCraft Conestoga Wagons are equipped with electrical outlets and the couple is looking into how to heat and cool the interiors. Dennis Steinman says he envisions the wagons being parked at wineries, ranches, state and national parks, hunting lodges and resorts. Steinman says he hopes to build 20 wagons in their business' first year.

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4-year-old KU Dorm Needs $4.9 Million HVAC Repair

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas will spend $4.9 million this summer to fix the system that heats and cools one of its newest residence halls.  The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Kansas Board of Regents has agreed to make the fix. Regents facilities director Nelda Henning says the heating and cooling system failed "almost immediately" after Self Hall opened in 2015. Henning says the university has been trying to find a workaround for the last four years but has finally reached a point at which it has no other option but to replace the system. Henning says the university is pursuing legal action against the company it believes is responsible. But she says the school needs some way of paying for the project immediately. She characterized it as an "emergency repair."

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KU Professor Develops Civil Rights App

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A mobile app is being developed to explain places and events connected to a killing that galvanized the civil rights movement. Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago, was killed in 1955 while visiting relatives in Mississippi. Photos from his open-casket funeral showed his mutilated body, stirring anger that motivated people to push for change. Developers tell the Greenwood Commonwealth they hope the app will be ready by August 28th, the anniversary of Till's death. University of Kansas professor Dave Tell and Patrick Weems, director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi, have worked five years on the Emmett Till Memory Project. The app will guide users to 10 destinations in the Mississippi Delta and two in Chicago. Tell says Florida State University professor Davis Houck has helped with the project.

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Expansion Planned at KC Automotive Museum

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-area automobile museum is planning to move, and grow. KMBC-TV reports that the Kansas City Automotive Museum has outgrown its 10,000-square-foot space in Olathe, which holds only about 30 cars. Leaders say they're considering various locations for the new museum, which could be as large as 80,000 square feet. Among the possible sites are downtown Kansas City and the West Bottoms or Village West in Kansas City, Kansas. The museum opened in 2014 as a nod to the region's rich automotive history. Museum officials say Henry Ford built his first plant outside of Detroit in Kansas City, where Model T automobiles started rolling off the line in 1912. Also, the nation's first African-American-owned dealership opened in Kansas City in the 1920s.

 

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