Salina

• Severe thunderstorms with winds up to 113 mph caused widespread damage, power outages, and school cancellations in the Salina area. →
• Evergy crews are restoring power to more than 105,000 customers affected by severe storms in central and northeast Kansas. →
• The Salina City Commission approved the sale of $12.595 million in general obligation bonds for local infrastructure initiatives. →
• The Salina City Commission voted 3-1 to award a $3.23 million contract to Vogts Construction for a new landfill scale house. →
• Salina City Manager Jacob Wood hired a consultant for $30,000 to conduct an operational review of the Salina Animal Shelter. →
• The Salina City Commission received a clean 2024 financial audit from Forvis Mazars, noting a $65 million settlement restatement. →
• Get ready for a scorching, sunny day in Salina with a high of 98°F and heat index values reaching a stifling 108°F, made slightly more bearable by some gusty southern winds.

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🌾 Kansas

• Wichita officials are poised to approve roughly $100 million in corporate property tax breaks, with the bulk going to Boeing Wichita, which would pay no Sedgwick County property taxes for 10 years under the proposal up for votes Tuesday and Wednesday. →

• KDOT closed all lanes of Interstate 70 through downtown Topeka on June 8 as part of the $239 million Polk-Quincy Viaduct project, with the closure expected to last through December and through traffic diverted to I-470. →

• Federal prosecutors charged Leawood resident Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, and two California men with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, alleging the trio sent money and discussed drone strike plots against U.S. troops via Discord between February 2025 and June 2026. →

• The Kansas State Board of Education met June 8 to discuss implementation of a new state law banning student cell phone use during the school day, which takes effect Sept. 1 and requires individual districts to draft compliance plans. →

• Oklahoma defeated Kansas 13-2 on June 8 to sweep the Jayhawks out of the NCAA Super Regionals, sending the Sooners to the College World Series in Omaha. →

🇺🇸 US

• The newest Patriot interceptors take more than two years to build at roughly $4 million each, and the Pentagon's deal with Lockheed Martin to triple production to 2,000 annually won't be met until late 2030 as wars in Iran and Ukraine strain stockpiles. →

• Iran launched nearly 30 ballistic missiles at Israel on June 7, 2026, prompting Israeli airstrikes on military sites across Tehran, Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Tabriz before both governments pledged to halt the exchange by Monday afternoon. →

• Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on June 8, 2026 for a two-day state visit with Kim Jong Un — his first trip to North Korea in seven years — pledging deeper strategic coordination on trade, agriculture, and science. →

• Apple unveiled a redesigned Siri AI built on Google's Gemini models at its June 8 WWDC keynote, with the standalone app able to buy tickets, plan events, and interact with photos, though it won't launch in the EU or China at release. →

• President Trump was met with sustained boos at Madison Square Garden on Monday during Game 3 of the NBA Finals, which the San Antonio Spurs won 115-111 over the Knicks to end New York's 13-game winning streak. →

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JUNE 9, 1934: DONALD DUCK MAKES HIS ON-SCREEN DEBUT IN “THE WISE LITTLE HEN”

Donald Duck enters pop culture in the 1934 Silly Symphony cartoon “The Wise Little Hen,” where he and his friend Peter Pig try to dodge farm work by faking stomach aches. When Mrs. Hen sees through their ruse, she shows them the value of honest labor, setting the tone for Donald’s irascible but enduring persona.

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