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Missing teenager Clotilde Soto-Garcia, pictured here in 2011. (Photo Courtesy of Riley County Police Department)Riley County Police are still trying to find a missing teenage girl. 15 year old Cleotilde Lucero Soto-Garcia went missing in late August, and they've had no leads as to her whereabouts. Lieutenant Josh Kyle is the public information officer for the department. He said she may be in Riley County, or she may be in Texas.Kyle says the girl is a student at Manhattan West High School, but police don't know if she disappeared with someone or ran away. He said she also goes by the names Lucero Garcia and Lucy Garcia. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Riley County Police or Crimestoppers.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A University of Kansas student has received a NASA fellowship to design better tools for predicting how climate change will affect sea levels. Theresa Stumpf of Wentzville, Missouri is a doctoral student in electrical engineering at the university's Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets. Her fellowship is worth $90,000 over three years. She'll conduct research on a new type of ice-penetrating radar. The university says the new radar is designed to gather data from a wider area and provide a much clearer picture of the conditions where the ice meets bedrock. Whether there's solid ice, melting ice or water at that point influences the speed of the ice flow to the oceans. The faster the ice flows, the more it affects sea level rise.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are on a monthlong break, having left behind a budget still considered a work in progress and more possible changes to the state tax code. Lawmakers adjourned late Friday having approved several issues after more than a week of negotiations. But many of the spending cuts favored by majority Republicans remain in play. One area is higher education. The Senate is recommending a 4 percent cut for state universities and community colleges. The House favors a 2 percent cut. The Legislature returns to work May 8. Republican leaders say the budget picture will come into focus before then, with the release of a new estimate of state revenue. The revenue report also will help settle the debate on further cuts in Kansas income taxes.

Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence, KS (Photo via commons.wikimedia.org)LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence museum is opening a new $300,000 exhibit as the city marks the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill's rebel guerrilla attack on the pro-union town. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the exhibit opens Saturday at the Watkins Museum of History. It features displays and artifacts from the Civil War and Bleeding Kansas eras. Among the items on display is Ernst Ulmer's 4-by-6-foot canvas painting depicting Quantrill's Raid. The loaned piece, valued at about $30,000, greets visitors as they enter the exhibit. It also features a newly constructed booth with a large touch-screen television that allows visitors to point to places on a digital map of Lawrence. Different points on the map tell different stories, both in pictures and audio.

Part of the WW II memorial in Washington. (Photo by Rick Latoff / American Battle Monuments Commission)Kansas Republican Senator Jerry Moran met with a group of World War II veterans in Washington who were visiting the national memorial built in their honor. That monument was officially closed yesterday (WED) because of the government shutdown, but the veterans were still able to visit the memorial. Later on, Moran spoke on the Senate floor and urged members of Congress to think about those veterans during the current political dust-up.Some Republicans want to delay parts of the president's health care law in exchange for funding the government. Senator Moran called on President Obama to compromise, but the president maintains Republicans shouldn’t shutdown government services because they don’t like the law.

Photographer Lucas Foglia spent seven years jumping from town to town, from New Mexico to Montana. He creates a collage of life and landscape in his new book, Frontcountry.

A year ago, China lifted its draconian COVID restrictions. Many expected the country to bounce back quickly. That hasn't happened.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

August Lamm became an accidental influencer by posting pictures of her art online – until she reached a breaking point and got rid of her smartphone. Now, she's advocating for others to do the same.