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by Kim Hynes and Chris Durden (HUTCHINSON, Kan.) Senate candidate Jim Slattery uses the one and only public debate to attack his opponent, Sen. Pat Roberts, on a host of issues. Roberts defended his record during Saturday's debate at the Kansas State Fair. Issues ranged from energy to health care to the war in Iraq. Slattery went after Roberts for getting the intelligence used to invade Iraq wrong while he was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Roberts countered, saying the intelligence failure was not only a U.S. failure but a worldwide failure.

The 100th annual Kansas State Fair officially starts today in Hutchinson. And for the first time in four years, admission prices have gone up. Click to See Photos of Final Preparations Tickets for adults could have been purchased in advance for $6.  That deadline is over and you'll now pay $10 to enter the fair. Click Here To Find Out Who Will Be At KWCH Booth “You buy the ticket early, you're making a commitment that you're going to come to the fair,” said Denny Stoecklein, spokesperson for the Kansas State Fair.

It was supposed to go to the Kansas State Fair next month... But that can't happen...Since a Douglas County boy's award winning quilt vanished. 11-year-old Adam Leonard's small quilt won a "reserved grand champion ribbon" at the Douglas County fair... But while it was on show at the fairgrounds, it disappeared... Investigators think it was among several items stolen from the fair's craft display. "I was mad and frustrated. I was just appalled when I learned about the missing bowl from the other section and I just can't believe it was taken from a child' said Joyce Miles (Adam's mother)

Wichita's newest hotel is about to open, and it is hiring.    The Ambassador Hotel held a job fair Thursday. The hotel should be open the middle of next month. The jobs available include housekeeping, waiter, front desk, valet parking....just about anything you would expect to see at a restaurant or hotel. What kind of people are they looking for? Executive Vice President Michael Frimel tells us,  "We're looking for individuals that really care about giving good customer service...about making customers aware of what there is to do in Wichita and really being ambassadors to the Wichita area itself".

Scott County Fair- July 20 - 24, 2011 Scott City, Kansas