Hutchinson

• The City of Hutchinson will remove traffic signals at three intersections starting August 11 to improve safety and save nearly $170,000. →
• Two South Hutchinson Fire Department firefighters were hospitalized after battling a house fire on West D Avenue in South Hutchinson. →
• APAC Kansas opened its new $5.5 million regional headquarters near Hutchinson, backed by bonds approved by the Reno County Commission. →
• Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System earned a Gold award from the American Heart Association for compliance with clinical stroke care guidelines. →
• The Kansas Health Foundation awarded a $600,000 grant to the Greater Wichita YMCA to expand health and wellness programs across Kansas. →
• Reno County voters can begin casting early in-person ballots for the August primary election at the Reno County Annex starting July 15. →
• It is going to be a beautiful, sunny Wednesday here in Hutchinson with a high near 91°F and just a light southeast breeze.

🌾 Kansas

• Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly denied clemency July 14 to Reginald and Jonathan Carr, keeping the death-row brothers eligible for execution over the 2000 Wichita massacre. →

• Panasonic Energy began mass production of lithium-ion battery cells July 14 at its roughly $4 billion De Soto, Kansas, plant, the largest economic development project in state history. →

• Kansas counties began mailing advance ballots and opening in-person early voting July 15 ahead of the Aug. 4 primary, which includes a wide-open governor's race. →

• Textron Aviation completed a 57,000-square-foot expansion of its flight-test hangar in east Wichita this summer to speed testing of the Cessna SkyCourier and Beechcraft Denali. →

• Former Kansas Jayhawks guard Lagerald Vick was charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly shooting a man in the back at a July 4 party in Memphis. →

🇺🇸 US

• ICE temporarily suspended most vehicle stops nationwide Tuesday for additional officer training after federal agents fatally shot two immigrants in separate vehicle stops within a week. →

• Consumer prices fell 0.4% in June, dropping the annual inflation rate to 3.5% from 4.2% in May as energy prices posted their steepest monthly decline since April 2020. →

• President Donald Trump said he will deliver a prime-time address at 9 p.m. Thursday focused in part on U.S. election security and voting machines. →

• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday establishing what the state calls the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, pausing discretionary permits for up to a year. →

• President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to order U.S. strikes on Iran's power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations, as the U.S. restarted its naval blockade of Iranian ports. →

Weather

JULY 15, 2006: TWITTER LAUNCHES AS A DIGITAL PRINTING PRESS FOR THE MASSES

Twitter’s launch turned any mobile phone into a pocket-sized publishing press, letting ordinary people broadcast short messages to the world in real time. Like the printing press shattered the monopoly of scribes and elites over written communication, Twitter weakened gatekeepers in media and politics by enabling direct, unfiltered speech. Its legacy is a new information ecosystem in which news, social movements and cultural moments can ignite and spread globally in seconds, for better and for worse. This article was written using our proprietary AI system, Cronkite. The final decision to publish this article was made by a human. For more info, read our AI policy.