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Program planned tonight on Emmett Till case

A program is planned from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at the West Wyandotte Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kansas, on the 1955 Emmett Till murder case.

Dave Tell, an associate professor of communications studies at the University of Kansas, will describe various memorials to Emmett Till and how they show different narratives of what happened.

Tell co-created the Emmett Till Memory Project.

Accident reported near I-635 and Swartz

An accident was reported about 10:59 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4, on northbound I-635 near Swartz Road, according to KC Scout. The accident was on the right shoulder. (KC Scout photo)

BPU to meet Feb. 6

The Board of Public Utilities will meet for a work session at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the BPU offices, 540 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.

On the agenda for the work session at 4:30 p.m. are a board update, general manager update and Quindaro operation status report.

On the agenda for the regular meeting at 6 p.m. Feb. 6 are a visitors’ time, January outage report, follow-up report on subdivisions with stranded infrastructure, board comments, general manager comments and a closed executive session.