Salina

• The Salina City Commission will review a $32.3 million capital improvement plan for 2027, including major road and bridge projects. →
• The Salina City Commission will consider $367,636 in contracts for annual environmental monitoring at the former Schilling Air Force Base. →
• The Salina City Commission will consider buying $178,598 in radios for Public Works and rezoning property for Bobcat of Salina. →
• ShaQuilla Weaver, 20, was arrested in Saline County on animal cruelty charges after allegedly leaving dogs in a hot vehicle to die. →
• Christopher Ryan Morgan of Salina was sentenced to 68 months in prison for three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. →
• Expect a early slight chance of showers before 7 a.m., but otherwise look for plenty of sunshine today with a high near 95°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Evergy reported a second-quarter profit of $215 million, driven by growing electricity demand from data centers, and reaffirmed its earnings outlook through 2030. →

• A Citizen Journal review found Kansas governments and school districts scrambling to repair aging power, water, bridge and cooling systems as equipment reaches the end of its service life. →

• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security bought CoreCivic's 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth for $238.4 million, raising questions about future city tax payments and local oversight. →

• Bonner Springs-Edwardsville USD 204 deployed ZeroEyes AI gun detection software across its schools, funded through a state grant program. →

• A Citizen Journal review found Kansas communities including Salina, Hays, Emporia, Lawrence and Abilene advancing plans to convert vacant motels, schools, stores and civic buildings into housing. →

🇺🇸 US

• Initial unemployment claims rose by 1,000 to 199,000 for the week ending Aug. 1, marking a third straight week below 200,000, the longest such streak since 1969. →

• The Pentagon's deputy secretary convened an emergency meeting over weapons shortages after President Trump made an angry call, as years of arms transfers to Ukraine and use in Yemen and Iran have strained U.S. munitions stocks across multiple theaters. →

• SpaceX will build a $16.8 billion semiconductor campus in Grimes County, Texas, creating 3,000 jobs, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 6. →

• A New Mexico judge ordered Meta on Aug. 6 to pay $567 million for youth-harm remediation programs, bringing the company's total liability in the case to $942 million. →

• Ukraine struck Russian oil refineries in Bashkortostan and Yaroslavl overnight into Aug. 6, part of a deepening campaign against Russian fuel and retail infrastructure, as German investigators found a bomb-laden drone near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport. →

Weather

AUGUST 7, 1998: U.S. EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA BOMBED

The twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania marked a violent escalation of Islamist militancy that had been building since the 1979 Iranian Revolution galvanized anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world. The attacks, orchestrated by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, foreshadowed the 9/11 strikes and helped lay the ideological and operational groundwork for the U.S.-led Global War on Terror.

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