In one 30-minute period, Topeka, Kansas saw three inches of snow.

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Temperatures Friday soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit from Topeka, Kansas, to Washington, and the same scorching conditions are expected to continue through the weekend and beyond.

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But that official rate does not take into account cost of living and when you factor in the fact that it costs more to live in San Francisco than in Topeka, Kansas, for example, then you see that those rates are considerably higher.

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In a strike to wound Westboro, the activist group Anonymous hacked the names, phone numbers, and social security numbers of numerous people it said are members of Westboro Baptist Church, which is based in Topeka, Kansas.

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The Kansas STAR (Sales Tax Anticipation Revenue) bonds program, for example, funneled sales taxes to developers to build things like the Kansas Speedway and to finance the Heartland Park Racetrack in Topeka.

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Hinthorne, 40, of Topeka, was killed Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash and rollover on the Kansas Turnpike as snow was falling in Shawnee County, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

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