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TOPEKA — Bullying just won’t go away. If anything, the advent of smartphones and social media has made it worse.That’s forced a conversation on what…
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Segment 1: How a 1990s movie on DVD saved the life of a queer Kansas teen.Savannah Rodgers is making a documentary about her obsession, as a 12-year-old,…
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Cristi Carroll remembers the discussion she had with the first of three orthodontists about braces for her daughter, Alex, now 14.“I was shocked at the…
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A bill in the Kansas Legislature would let students escape bullying by transferring to a new school, either public or private. But critics say the bill...
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In the 1950s, SuEllen Fried got a call asking if she'd like to teach the cha-cha to psychiatric patients at the Osawatomie State Hospital.She'd danced in…
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SuEllen Fried wanted to dance. She never anticipated this passion would lead her to a life of advocacy for child-abuse prevention and prison reform.By…
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The Lee’s Summit R-7 school board is considering a plan that moves about 800 of the district’s 18,000 students to different schools next…
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The Kansas City Chiefs are ranked No. 1 in the AFC West and come in at No. 4 in the just-released NFL power rankings. Chiefs fans are feeling proud.But…
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Segment 1: Celebrities are entertaining and increasingly political.Recently more and more celebrities are getting involved in political activism, but it…
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A black middle school student, who reported a sexual and physical assault, is at the center of a federal lawsuit claiming Lansing Middle School officials…
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Jeff Sloan knew something was wrong as soon as his 10-year-old son got off the school bus.Jayden, a fourth grader at Mason Elementary in Lee’s Summit, was…
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The Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has received praise and criticism for how it approaches weighty topics such as teen bullying, sexuality, mental illness…