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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Dressed in a red velvet gown, sparkly jewelry and white painted fingernails, Divinity Masters said she decided to read "Red: A Crayon Story" at the Wichita Public Library because of its message. "I picked this book because I think it has a lot to tell us about what it's like to sometimes feel like you don't fit in," she said. "Or that it doesn't quite make sense to be who other people tell you to be. "But once you find your way, it feels really good." Masters — the drag queen persona of Brad Thomison — is one of three...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — It's bath day for the pet rats and ferrets at Southeast High School in Wichita. Kenneth Borja gently lifts one of the rats — Zeus, Poseidon or Hades, it's hard to tell which — out of his cage. He carries the animal to the sink, lathers him with shampoo and holds the squirming rodent under warm water for a rinse. "I really didn't choose this class. I was randomly put into it," said Borja, a senior. "But I found it to be interesting, so I stayed ... Now I've kind of grown close to the animals and I like taking care of them....
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University leased a building on its campus to a new private school that began construction, hired staff and is well on its way to welcoming its first students — all without a public vote or open bidding process. How? WSU's Innovation Campus has become "a mindset," not a specific location, university officials said. And that means properties across campus and beyond can be leased to the nonprofit Wichita State Innovation Alliance and then sub-leased to third parties without a public discussion or vote, which no...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — In "American Heart," a young adult novel by Laura Moriarty, the United States government is rounding up Muslims and relocating them to internment camps in Nevada. Fifteen-year-old Sarah Mary, a white girl from Missouri, meets an Iranian immigrant named Sadaf and — in a deliberate nod to "Huckleberry Finn" — travels north with the woman in an attempt to help her escape to Canada. "I was concerned about a lot of the political rhetoric I was hearing" during the presidential election, says Moriarty, a best-selling autho...
