Salina

• Salina Public Schools honored 20 retiring faculty and staff members and 33 employees with 25 years of service during a Thursday ceremony. →
• High schools and colleges in Salina and Saline County, including USD 305 and Kansas Wesleyan, will hold graduation ceremonies May 9-17. →
• The First Treasures program returns to the Smoky Hill River Festival, allowing Salina youth ages 4 to 13 to buy original art for $1 to $5. →
• Salina Parks and Recreation will host a free bike safety rodeo for children ages 4-16 at the Kenwood Cove parking lot this Saturday. →
• Salina postal carriers will collect food donations for the Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank during the Stamp Out Hunger drive on May 9. →
• Salina Police Department is investigating a burglary at Virg’s Auto Repair where $5,000 in tools were stolen after a forced entry. →
• It's going to be a beautiful sunny day in Salina with a high near 77, though you should expect a bit of a breeze with southwest gusts reaching up to 24 mph.

🌾 Kansas

• The extortion group ShinyHunters allegedly breached Canvas parent company Instructure, knocking the learning management system offline at Kansas State University and roughly 8,800 other institutions days before finals week. →

• A federal jury convicted Beneficient founder Brad Heppner on Thursday of securities fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and making false statements in a scheme that funneled more than $150 million to himself from GWG Holdings. →

• Jump Start opened a biodiesel and biogas blending facility in Potwin, Kansas, that U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall said will consume a third of the state's soybean crop and open new markets for Kansas farmers. →

• The Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police honored four officers killed in the line of duty in 2025 at its annual Valor Awards banquet May 6 in Mulvane, with posthumous Chief's Awards going to deputies and officers from Phillips County, Wyandotte County, Kansas City and Hays. →

• Kansas Sunflower Summer will return July 9–Aug. 2 with a reduced $2.75 million budget and a four-week window, open to pre-K through 12th-grade students and one adult guardian per family. →

🇺🇸 US

• A new AEI working paper warns U.S. fertility has fallen to 1.6 births per woman and projects deaths will exceed births by 2030, with depopulation potentially beginning as early as 2036 under low-immigration scenarios. →

• President Trump said the ceasefire with Iran remains in place after U.S. forces struck Iranian missile, drone and command sites in response to attacks on three American destroyers in which no vessels were hit. →

• Tennessee Republicans adopted a redistricting map that eliminates the Memphis-area majority-Black congressional district held by Rep. Steve Cohen, following a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act. →

• Vice President Vance warned major AI CEOs on an April call that Anthropic's Mythos model could enable cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, prompting the White House to weigh an executive order for oversight of advanced AI models. →

• The NCAA announced both the men's and women's basketball tournaments will expand from 68 to 76 teams beginning in the 2026-27 season, the largest bracket change for the men's tournament since 1985. →

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MAY 8 1963: AMERICAN MOVIEGOERS GET FIRST LOOK AT JAMES BOND IN “DR. NO”

The first James Bond film released in the United States introduced audiences to Ian Fleming’s super-spy 007, played by then little-known Scottish actor Sean Connery. The movie established many of the franchise’s trademarks, including the gun-barrel opening, fast-paced action, glamorous “Bond girls,” and Bond’s signature vodka martinis “shaken, not stirred.”

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