Veterans' numbers staggering
Wounded warriors at 1.3M, cost estimated at $600B-900B.
America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen.
A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from t ...
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Of the state's 105 counties, 77 have lost population in last decade
The population of 41 Kansas counties peaked in 1910 or earlier, so long ago there's almost no one around who can remember.
Twenty-eight Kansas counties haven't seen an even modest increase in population from one census to the next since 1940, not ev ...
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Counties try thriving while shrinking
Solutions exist to declines in population, but there isn't one magic silver bullet.
Far from the plains of windswept Kansas where he grew up, Travis Peter found a good job as a financial adviser in upstate New York.
The 2000 Tribune High School graduate lives minutes from a Walmart, along with a variety of restaurants, retailers an ...
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Hutch VFW quartermaster repairs those needing fixed with pride for special day
Tattered American flags lie across tables in Randy Kendall's garage.
The ends of the stripes were frayed, exposing some of the thread from previous repairs.
Kendall, the Hutchinson VFW quartermaster, sat behind his mother-in-law's old Kenmore sewin ...
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