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  • The Trending Channel
  • Authorities say a Kansas man who was walking along railroad tracks wearing headphones was hit by a train that he didn't hear approaching behind him - but that he got back up and kept walking.
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  • The Trending Channel
  • The big bird is no longer on the loose.
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  • Kansas city kidnapped girl reunited with her father
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  • Several children are injured after their school bus crashed in northeast Kansas, but officials say no one was critically hurt.
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  • Action News
  • A man and woman from suburban Chicago face felony child abuse and child endangerment charges after police said two of their five children were found blindfolded with their arms and legs bound in a Kansas Walmart parking lot.
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  • Oklahoma City tornado
  • Monday's powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.
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  • Country music performer Toby Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado.
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  • Oklahoma City tornado
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  • Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says "hearts are broken" for parents wondering about the fate of their children after a tornado devastated suburban Oklahoma City and officials say the search and rescue effort will continue throughout the night.
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  • Oklahoma City tornado
  • The medical examiner's office says 51 people have been killed from the Oklahoma tornado and the death toll is expected to rise.
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  • A body recovered is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm.
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  • There's a good reason why circus-goers couldn't -- go.
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  • As airport officials tried to figure out how a 300-pound arrival-departure panel fell off the wall and onto a family, the mother of a boy who was killed by the sign lay in a hospital with her own injuries, still unaware of what happened.
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  • Blizzard conditions slammed parts of the central Plains Monday, forcing the closure of highways in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand anew just days after a massive storm blanketed the region with snow.
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  • Blinding snow, at times accompanied by thunder and lightning, bombarded much of the nation's midsection Thursday, causing whiteout conditions, making major roadways all but impassable and shutting down schools and state legislatures.
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  • An illegal immigrant accused of assuming the persona of a Texas teacher pleaded guilty Monday in a case that put a face on the growing crime of "total identity theft" in the United States.
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  • Action News
  • A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple after answering an online ad is fighting the state's efforts to suddenly force him to pay child support for the now 3-year-old girl.
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  • Major winter storm barrels up East Coast
  • Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations.
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  • The first widespread snowstorm of the season plodded across the Midwest on Thursday, as whiteout conditions sent drivers sliding over slick roads and some travelers were forced to scramble for alternate ways to get to their holiday destinations.
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  • Authorities say two Kansas police officers shot outside a grocery store have died at a hospital.
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  • Police say Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then killed himself.
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  • Police say Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Javon Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then killed himself.
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  • Action News
  • A former Kansas soldier will spend 10 months in federal prison for entering into a sham marriage so he could get additional military benefits and his Jamaican bride could become a legal immigrant, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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  • There's a sexting controversy in a Kansas City suburb -- over a statue.
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  • Action News
  • A Jamaican woman accused of entering into a "sham marriage" with a Kansas soldier faces a federal trial Tuesday.
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  • Thomas Jefferson is running for Congress in Kansas.
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  • A Kansas teen has earned a spot as a finalist in a national design competition with a prom dress made entirely from duct tape.
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  • In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping from the sky just miles away.
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  • Action News
  • A man wielding a knife broke into a Kansas television station Wednesday morning and stabbed two sales employees.
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  • Mark Robbins thought he heard a gentle rain falling during the predawn darkness.
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  • The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the child was forced to undergo a pat-down after hugging her, with security agents yelling and calling the crying girl an uncooperative suspect.
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  • A convicted murderer who escaped from a county jail in Kansas after being transferred from an overcrowded state prison has been caught, the state Department of Corrections said Friday.
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  • A convicted murderer and another inmate remained at large after escaping from a Kansas jail where they'd been transferred because of overcrowding at a state prison. Two others were apprehended, one after he turned himself in at a Walmart in Nebraska.
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  • Tornadoes erupting across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma.
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  • Tornadoes erupting across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma.
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  • The federal government has cited a grain company for willful safety violations in a northeast Kansas elevator explosion that killed six workers last October.
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  • Are strippers employees or independent contractors?
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  • Mega Millions
  • Only one winner in the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot has come forward but officials say the person will remain anonymous.
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  • Action News
  • A regulatory board in Kansas is working on an agreement with a former abortion provider over the custody of patient records still in his possession after hundreds of others were found in a Kansas City-area recycling bin.
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  • Mega Millions
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  • Mega Millions
  • While the world waits to find out who holds the winning tickets, we now know that five people in Pa. came very close.
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  • Mega Millions
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  • Action News
  • A Minnesota family and some friends were taking a spring break vacation to see a motocross race when the motor home in which they were traveling crashed in northeast Kansas, killing five family members, a family friend said Monday.
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  • Mega Millions
  • The numbers drawn in the Mega Millions lottery on Friday night were: 02 - 04 - 23 - 38 - 46 and the Mega Ball was 23.
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  • Elena Delle Donne and Delaware are done, ousted from the NCAA women's tournament by Kansas.
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  • There may be no place like home, but don't tell Toto.
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