Hays

• Hays USD 489 reported Hays Middle School assessment scores exceeded state averages in seventh-grade reading and eighth-grade math. →
• Hays USD 489 will pay $2.2 million in bond investment arbitrage to the federal government after earning $17.7 million in interest. →
• The Hays USD 489 Board of Education plans to use $374,000 in unallocated bond interest funds for two school parking lot projects. →
• Hays USD 489 reported about 40 percent of Hays Middle School students participate in fall sports, prompting fifth quarter scrimmages. →
• Expect morning fog giving way to mostly cloudy skies today with a high near 77°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Kansas diesel prices hit a record $6.23 a gallon Sept. 21, driven by wars in Iran and Ukraine disrupting global refining and an outage at ExxonMobil's Joliet refinery, as farmers harvested 40% of corn and planted 10% of winter wheat. →

• Thirty-six of Kansas' 105 counties, along with 10 cities and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, have signed 287(g) immigration enforcement agreements with ICE, most joining after President Trump returned to office, according to a Sept. 20 Topeka Capital-Journal tally. →

• Lindsborg residents renewed calls Sept. 21 for the city to remove its Flock Safety license plate cameras, but the council tabled the issue for further policy review. →

• The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted 6-1 Sept. 21 to recommend requiring special use permits for future data centers, adding public hearings before both the Planning Commission and City Commission. →

• A man was fatally shot and a school bus carrying 10 students was struck by gunfire Sept. 21 near North 18th Street and Longwood Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, with no students injured and no suspect in custody. →

🇺🇸 US

• CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued President Donald Trump and White House officials Monday to reverse a ban on their reporters entering White House grounds, while ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News suspended their shared television pool coverage. →

• All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico applied to join Trump's Medicaid drug-pricing initiative, which aims to tie rebates to lower prices paid in other developed countries and could save $64.3 billion over 10 years. →

• President Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met at Gracie Mansion Monday and agreed to expand talks on building roughly 12,000 affordable homes at Sunnyside Yard in Queens. →

• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state environmental commission Monday to halt data center permits until electricity and water audits are completed, with a compliance report due Oct. 19. →

• President Trump announced Sept. 18 that the U.S. reached a deal with Denmark and Greenland to expand American military basing rights on the island, with signing scheduled for Sept. 22. →

Weather

SEPTEMBER 22, 1888: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PUBLISHES ITS FIRST ISSUE

National Geographic releases its inaugural magazine issue without any photographs, relying solely on text and maps. With so few subscribers, editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor personally addresses each copy and hand-delivers the entire mailing to the post office.

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