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One person was killed and two people injured about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in a two-vehicle head-on collision on US-24 highway about a mile east of Rossville, a Shawnee County Emergency Communications Center dispatcher said. Lucinda C. Mitchell, 63, of Rossville, died at the scene, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report. Mitchell had been a passenger in a car driven by Christopher M. Mitchell, 61, of Rossville, who suffered injuries that were suspected to be serious, the report said. It...

One dead following crash involving deer near Rossville One person is dead and two others are injured following a crash Tuesday evening near Rossville. Authorities were dispatched shortly after 7:30 p.m. after a passenger car struck a deer on Hwy 24, about a mile east of Rossville. The driver was attempting to avoid hitting the deer, and in doing so, left the roadway, drove into a ditch then turned back into the roadway where it struck an oncoming vehicle. According to the Kansas Highway P...

Fri, Jan 8th 2021 12:00pm — Karl Bode Over the last few months a wide variety of activists, experts, engineers, and academics provided their insights into broadband access (or a lack thereof) in the COVID era. Wed like to thank all of the participants for their insights during a difficult and complicated time, and hope readers gleaned something useful from the exercise. You can peruse all of the contributions here if you missed any of them during the busy holiday season. Our first two Techdir...

Mammal swims about Mill River most of day By Michael Cronin Staff Writer Dec 31, 2020 Dec 31, 2020 A bottlenose dolphin delights the crowd gathered at the end of the Mill River on Washington Street in Gloucester.PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo Paul Bilodeau GLOUCESTER — A bottlenose dolphin surprised and delighted passers-by on the Washington Street bridge Wednesday afternoon. Word traveled fast around the city after the dolphin was ini...

Mon, Dec 14th 2020 6:24am — Karl Bode The FCC last week held a reverse auction to dole out $9 billion to, purportedly, improve patchy U.S. broadband. But consumer groups say the auction did nothing of the sort, instead delivering $9 billion to a dodgy roster of companies with existing histories of fraud that will be using much of the funds to expand broadband to affluent areas where broadband is often already available. The reverse auction involved doling out billions from the FCCs Rural Digi...

The ink is just beginning to dry on the FCCs initial $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, but some in the telecom industry are already raising questions about the entities receiving funds, what they plan to spend it on, and whether they might be able to effectively cross the digital divide. "Confusion and corruption may just be beginning," wrote Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)...

Bobby Lewis wrote a lot of music after his son was born in 2014. Lewis, assistant professor in the department of media, journalism and film (MJF) at Missouri State University, released an EP of six songs titled “Mighty was Your Light” on Dec. 6. Most of the songs were recorded in the months after his son’s birth. The first single, “Moon Pie,” is dedicated to his son. The story of “Moon Pie” Lewis’ son was born one month premature. In those first months, Lewis and his wife would ...