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An army of 42,000 utility workers has restored electricity to more than 2.5 million businesses and homes in Florida since Hurricane Ian’s onslaught, and Brenda Palmer’s place is among them. By the government’s count, she and her husband Ralph are part of a success story.

• The Leavenworth City Commission will meet at 6 p.m. today at Leavenworth City Hall, 100 N.

Leavenworth County has been awarded federal funding to help establish a veterans treatment court, the county attorney said. “We’re hoping to have it start by the beginning of 2023,” County Attorney Todd Thompson said.

Wire reports Arrest of Wichita officer is 3rd for force within 2 weeks A Wichita police officer was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving, become the city’s third officer to be apprehended within about two weeks. Police said in a release that the officer, who was off-duty, is also facing a charge of possession of a gun while intoxicated.

A U.S. senator from Kansas is warning the public about a form of fentanyl he said may appear to children to be candy.

A driver had to be extricated from her vehicle following a crash Thursday on U.S. 24-40, according to an official with the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13, pushing the investigation back into the limelight less than three weeks before the midterm election that will determine control of Congress.

New outrage ripped through Uvalde on Thursday over revelations that a school police officer hired after the Robb Elementary massacre was not only on campus during the May attack as a Texas state trooper but under investigation over her actions while a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.