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Published 2/7/2012 in News
AP: Report: TAM 111 top wheat variety in Kansas
WICHITA (AP) — The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service says a variety of wheat called TAM 111 is the most popular of all those planted in Kansas.
The agency says TAM 111 has been seeded on 12.6 percent of the state's 2012 wheat acres.
Coming in second in Kansas is the variety known as Everest, which is planted on 8 percent of the acreage. The variety called Armour moved up to third place, accounting for 7.5 percent of the state's acreage.
Varieties of hard white wheat accounted for 2.2 percent of the state's acreage. Most of the white wheat in Kansas is planted in the southwestern portion of the state.
AP: Brownback issues no pardons in 2011
LAWRENCE (AP) — Kansans who were denied pardons by Gov. Sam Brownback in 2011 ranged from convicted murderers to alleged traffic law violators.
Brownback denied all 39 pardon requests last year.
The Lawrence Journal-World submitted an open records request to Brownback's office, which provided the letters from the governor's office to pardon applicants.
The Kansas Prison Review Board, which reviews pardons before sending them to the governor, denied the open records request for the full pardon applications, citing an exemption in the Kansas Open Records Act.
The pardon requests include 10 people convicted of murder or manslaughter and a 63-year-old Wichita man who says he was wrongly convicted of a right-of-way traffic violation. Eddie Mendia operates the nonprofit Homeless Search Corp., and says he was pulled over because of his Mexican heritage.
AP: Google to begin work Monday in KCK
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Google is scheduled to begin construction Monday on its long-awaited super-speed Internet service in Kansas City, Kan.
The Kansas City Star reports that Kevin Lo, the Google executive heading up the project, announced the start of construction on the company's Google Fiber blog.
Google plans to install the fiber infrastructure first and then connect Google Fiber into homes across Kansas City.
Work to erect a network had been held up over issues about where Google would attach its fiber optic cables on utility poles owned by the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities.
The 1 gigabit-per-second Internet connections is expected to offer steady downloads about 100 times faster than most Americans can get in their homes with existing broadband services.
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