Newton

• Three teens were arrested in Newton after a highway pursuit, charged with the murder of Kansas City media personality James Dodds. →
• Newton city crews will temporarily close six local streets for resurfacing; vehicles parked on scheduled routes will be towed. →
• The Harvey County Road and Bridge Department is prioritizing bridge replacements over road paving due to deteriorating structures. →
• Harvey County revenues rose by over $1 million in the first quarter of 2026, driven by an $835,000 increase in property tax collections. →
• The Harvey County Sheriff's Office requested funding for a new detention center deputy to assist with transporting federal inmates. →
• A market study presented to the Harvey County Commission recommended a two percent pay scale adjustment for Harvey County employees. →
• Grab your sunglasses and hold onto your hats today, Newton, because we’re looking at a sunny but very windy day with a high near 89°F and gusts reaching up to 40 mph.

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🌾 Kansas

• Sedgwick County commissioners voted unanimously to approve up to $450 million in industrial revenue bonds for Boeing's Wichita campus expansion, completing a roughly $100 million, 10-year property tax abatement package. →

• Evergy restored power to more than 92% of the 118,000 customers left without electricity after a June 8 windstorm with 115-mph gusts snapped more than 500 utility poles across the Salina region. →

• Midwest ER tick-bite visits are running ahead of last year's pace, with CDC data showing Kansas and surrounding states on track to surpass 628 visits per 100,000 ER visits recorded in all of 2025. →

• The Kansas City Chiefs extended quarterback Patrick Mahomes through 2033 with a record $504.75 million contract, the first NFL deal to exceed half a billion dollars. →

• Kansas City's FIFA Fan Festival opens Thursday at the National WWI Museum and Memorial with free admission, a 30,000-square-foot FIFA store and new regional transit routes, ahead of the city's first World Cup match June 16. →

🇺🇸 US

• The 2026 FIFA World Cup will open Thursday at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City with host nation Mexico facing South Africa, marking the first World Cup to feature 48 teams across three host countries — the United States, Mexico and Canada. →

• The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes early Thursday, with Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz closed to all vessel traffic and warning of a "crushing and decisive" response after President Trump vowed continued military pressure to force a negotiated end to the war. →

• U.S. strikes on southern Iran on June 10 destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik's Bamani district, cutting off drinking water to roughly 20,000 residents amid temperatures exceeding 113 degrees Fahrenheit, with Iranian officials calling the attack a war crime. →

• U.S. inflation rose to 4.2 percent annually in May — the highest in three years — driven largely by a 23.5 percent surge in energy prices linked to the Iran war's disruption of Middle Eastern oil supplies, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported June 10. →

• Democrats and environmentalists are softening their opposition to oil and gas production as spiking energy prices and inflation, driven by the Middle East war, reshape the politics of climate change within the party. →

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JUNE 11, 1963: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA DESEGREGATED

Two Black students, Vivian Malone and James A. Hood, enrolled at the University of Alabama after federalized National Guard troops forced Governor George Wallace to end his attempt to physically block their registration. This confrontation marked a pivotal enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education and a major federal stand against segregation in higher education.

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