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FROM KDOT:
I-70 is NOW CLOSED from Burlington to Denver in Colorado due to adverse winter weather conditions. A blizzard warning is in effect beginning late tonight for northwest Kansas.


Several accidents in the Capital City due to slick roads.
25th and California..3 vehicle with one minor injury happened at 750.
8th and Washburn at 7:56 two vehicle crash..possible minor injury , no transports. Fluid spill cleanup.

5300 sw Burlingame.. one vehicle pt cruiser in ditch ..hit and run 49hundred s topeka blvd.... a three vehicle crash on turopike near snco dougolas county line at 638 this am due to one car hyrdoplanning and striking two others..one possible injury no one transported..


K 61 highway is back open this morning after a grain elevator explosion in Arlington... fire in a grain elevator was still smoldering last night, and residents in neighboring homes were asked to evacuate as a precaution. One worker was taken to a hospital after an explosion atop the Cairo Co-op elevator in Arlington around 7:30 a.m. yesterday. Arlington is located about 15 miles southwest of Hutchinson.

His store is still closed..and now the manager of Mo's Express is behind bars ..but not in connection with any of the high profile criminal actrivity at the Hudson Crossing Shopping Center. Jail records show Monroe Lockart was arrested yesterday in nconnectiown with a number of charges related to a November incident where Lockhart allegely held a man and woman at gun and knifepoint. Lockhart's close freind and center co developer Corey Brown was murdered last month ..Brown's body found in western Douglas County. Lockhart remains jailsed on half million dollars bond.

Curbside recycling is a "go": for residents of Topeka and Shawnee County. By a unanimous vote, Shawnee County Commissioners approved a ten year agreement with Waste Management Inc. The actual start up of the recycling program is still a ways off. Shawnee County has to purchase new trucks and Waste Managemnet must build a sorting facility at the Rolling Meadows landfill north of Topeka. the earliest curbside pickup could begin would be next January.


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