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For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.

This holiday season, instead of settling for the standard martini, historian Lesley Blume suggests you reach for a taste of bygone cocktail culture. She offers tips for picking the right antique elixir, as well as the original recipe for one of Ernest Hemingway's favorites.

In 2009, when the other Big Three automakers were filing for bankruptcy protection, Ford CEO and auto-industry outsider Alan Mulally helped the company post its first annual profit in four years. In American Icon, journalist Bryce Hoffman explores how Mulally helped Ford avoid the fate of its fellow automakers.

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How can spouses divide the tax credits they receive when they buy different health plans from an insurance marketplace? And what do they tell the IRS?

Health Care Rollout Met with Confusion in KansasOVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Republicans who control state government in Kansas have been clear from the beginning that they view the federal overhaul of health care as wrong-headed. But with the rollout of a new online health insurance marketplace, some advocates for the uninsured wonder whether Kansans have enough information about changes wrought by the 2010 federal law.==========Brownback Willing to Halt Tax-Credit War with MissouriST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says he's open to a moratorium in the tax-credit battle for businesses with Missouri. Brownback said yesterday (SAT) he discussed a moratorium a year ago with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. But Brownback says Missouri's entitlement tax credits for job creation didn't give Nixon the flexibility for a moratorium.==========KU Professors Show Support After Tweet ControversyLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — More than a dozen University of Kansas professors have issued a statement criticizing school officials for putting a colleague on leave after he posted a controversial tweet. The Lawrence Journal-World reports 14 Anthropology Department professors and department chairwoman Jane Gibson signed the statement Friday in support of journalism professor David Guth, who tweeted following the deadly Navy Yard shootings in Washington D.C. last week. The professors' statement says the university's action violated David Guth's right to free speech.==========Lansing Inmate Escapes, Turns Himself InOVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A 32-year-Kansas inmate who walked away from his work site in Overland Park has turned himself in. A spokesman for Lansing Correctional Facility says Zackary Conger was reported absent from Laser Apparel LLC Friday afternoon. The minimum custody inmate turned himself in at the Lenexa Police Department yesterday (SAT) morning. Conger is serving a 78-month sentence for burglary, forgery, and theft in Butler and Sedgwick counties.

The health law requires people to report their coverage status at tax time. Those without insurance or those who received subsidies will have to fill out new forms.

On this edition of Conversations, Markus Potter talks with host Dan Skinner about the upcoming season of performances by the University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Dance.

On this edition of Conversations, Ben Silverman talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin” which he co-authored with Brian Baumgartner who played Kevin Malone.

From busking on the streets of Lawrence to Broadway and beyond, how George "Nash" Walker became one of the highest paid vaudeville performers in America. As half of the duo Williams and Walker, he's the focus of a new exhibit at the Watkins Museum in Lawrence and the subject of "The Rediscovery of George 'Nash' Walker: The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America."