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The State Department said that 68-year-old David Lin is coming home after being arrested in China on vague contract charges that he and his family deny. He had been jailed there for 18 years.

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Kansas online court systems remain down... more cases of TB have been identified at an Olathe high school... a doctor with Kansas connections stands accused of poisoning his wife... Kansas, Missouri and other states sue Facebook and Instagram claiming the social media companies are harmful to the mental health of young people. Those headlines and more, inside.

LauncherOne will depart from Spaceport Cornwall and will take satellites into orbit.

Q: This community claims to have the only ROUND “town square” in all of Kansas. Can you name it?Blue Rapids' town square is actually a circle. (Photo by Tom Parker) ...

Just three years ago, in the summer of 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto. A new book tells the story of this decade-long journey, the people involved in the project and how the mission almost failed. KPR's J. Schafer speaks to the co-authors of Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto.

A fight broke out toward the end of Tuesday night's Sunflower Showdown, the annual, in-state, rivalry game between KU and K-State. The 3rd-ranked Kansas Jayhawks defeated K-State 81-to-60, but it was the ugly brawl at the end of the game in Lawrence that captured everyone's attention. As Greg Echlin reports, the contest was all but over when a fight erupted involving players and coaches from both teams.

In her Tiny Desk performance, the singer filled the room with a stunning vocal performance, her positive spirit and light radiating throughout the entire room.

The winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003-2004 was 80 years old.

The House voted late Tuesday night to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her comments related to Israel and Palestinians.