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Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco was all smiles when filming himself on a treadmill on Monday, walking normally one month after he fractured his fibula during a game. 

Pacheco suffered the long-term injury on September 15 and is expected to be out of action for up to eight weeks. 

The running back has missed four Chiefs games in his time out with injury, with no timetable made public for when the team expects him to return. 

Without him the Chiefs have not lost a game. However, Kansas City head coach Andy Reid is itching to get Pacheco back, as his team is no-doubt better with him in the starting lineup. 

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Pacheco’s smile is seen in the middle of a gym, which looks to be the Chiefs practice facility, with ‘Can’t Stop’ by the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing in the background. How fitting. 

Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco was seen walking on a treadmill on Monday

Pacheco suffered a broken fibula last month and is believed to be out of action indefinitely

Pacheco suffered a broken fibula last month and is believed to be out of action indefinitely

Pacheco had 135 yards and a touchdown before getting hurt against the Cincinnati Bengals. 

Last season, Pacheco came on strong late in the season and finished the year with 935 yards and seven rushing touchdowns. 

In his absence, Kareem Hunt and Samaje Perine have assumed the Chiefs’ backfield duties. 

The Chiefs next play on Sunday with a road game against the Las Vegas Raiders, who are 2-5. The Raiders were the last team to beat Kansas City last December. 

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Kansas City has a longer week heading into November with a Monday night-contest against the Buccaneers in Week 9. 

One of those games could see the return of Pacheco to the Chiefs’ active roster. 

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Kansas election officials urge remaining mail-in voters to skip post office, drop ballots off at drop box

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) – If you plan to vote by mail in Kansas, but haven’t sent your ballot back yet, you may have some work to do. Kansas election officials say it’s too late to put your ballot in the mail.

“If you drop it in the mail, there is no guarantee when it’s coming back,” said Michael Abbott, Wyandotte County’s election commissioner.

Instead, election officials are telling the remaining mail-in voters to drop off their ballots at designated drop boxes.

“If you drop it at a drop box, we’re going to pick it up the same day. If you [drop it off] at a polling location, it’s coming back to the election office the same day,” Abbott said. “That’s the best way to do it.”

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The Kansas Secretary of State’s office agrees.

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“Secretary Schwab encourages voters to return their ballot as soon as possible,” Scott Schwab’s office told KCTV5 in a statement Thursday. “As always, the better choice is to return your ballot via county-monitored drop box, in-person at your county election office, or any polling place within the county.”

The drop boxes are checked daily by a member of both major parties. The ballots are then taken directly to the county’s election headquarters.

“We have a team, a bi-partisan team, that checks them every single day,” Abbott said. “There is a Democrat and a Republican. They go out and check the drop boxes and bring the ballots back to our office.”

This year, Wyandotte County sent out around 7,000 mail-in ballots and has had about 5,000 returned. The county says it is on pace for a strong turnout among all voters.

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“In 2020, I think it was a little over 70,000 ballots cast. Right now, we’re a little under 19,400,” Abbott said. “We’re tracking to do between 60-70% turnout right now.”

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VIDEO | Patrick Mahomes says effort to bring WNBA to Kansas City 'a no-brainer'

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VIDEO | Patrick Mahomes says effort to bring WNBA to Kansas City 'a no-brainer'


KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes described efforts to bring a WNBA team to Kansas City as a “no-brainer” to reporters Thursday.

Mahomes took questions about his and his wife Brittany’s role in attempting to land a WNBA team during his regular weekly news conference with reporters.

“Obviously, we want to get basketball to Kansas City in general,” Mahomes said. “The WNBA and the success they had this last season and the last few seasons, it’s kind of a no-brainer to get a WNBA team to Kansas City.”

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The Mahomes’ are co-owners of the Kansas City Current of the National Women’s Soccer League along with Chris and Angie Long. Mahomes spoke of the effort to bring the Current to Kansas City and hopes to use that as a foundation for a potential WNBA team.

Mahomes, who is also a co-owner of the Kansas City Royals and Sporting KC, said his business involvement with the clubs is “for life after football.”

Chiefs QB Patrick MAhomes says he wants to do as much as he can to help bring a WNBA team to Kansas City

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“I love sports and I know how much this city loves sports,” Mahomes said. “Let’s bring as many sports in here and showcase how great Kansas City is not only as a city but the people as well.”

His involvement specifically in women’s sports is just as personal.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes holds his daughter Sterling, right, and son Bronze in his arms while wife Brittany, left, watches after warmups before an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024 in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

“I want to show (my daughter) she can follow her dreams and make an impact in this world in whatever that dream is,” Mahomes said.

Mahomes says Kansas City is a great place for the WNBA to continue its recent growth, but acknowledged that they’ll have to battle with other cities also vying for a WNBA expansion team.

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The WNBA is expanding from its current 12-team league to 15 teams over the next few seasons. The Golden State Valkyries will join the league starting with the 2025 regular season. In 2026, the league is set to add teams from Portland, Oregon, and Toronto.

The league appears poised to add a 16th team, which is where Kansas City could come into play. CBS Sports reported Wednesday that Philadelphia, Miami, Denver and Nashville are also in the running for the 16th team.





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In Kansas and Topeka, early in-person voting outpaces last 2 presidential elections

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Advance voting locations statewide and in Topeka are experiencing a surge of people voting early in-person.

Shawnee County election commissioner Andrew Howell said that, as of around 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, 17,800 voters had voted early in-person so far this election.

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“We’re not quite double, but it’s — depending on which year you compare it to — it is double to some years,” Howell told The Capital-Journal.

“In a presidential (election), 10,000 to 12,000 for the entire two-week period is a fairly average number,” he said. “So I suspect that we’re going to be double what we normally see here. Over 3,000 people the first day. It’s a rare day in the past that we do 1,500 a day.”

The Shawnee County Election Office was busy Wednesday morning with early voters. One of those early voters was Gov. Laura Kelly. When voting early in other recent elections, Kelly has often been one of only a small handful of voters filling out their ballots. This time, several of the booths were filled.

“I think there’s a lot of energy and excitement around the races this year, particularly obviously at the presidential level, but I think even locally on the state level,” Kelly said of the turnout.

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“I come out to vote early so that I make sure I get it done,” she told reporters. “It is fun to come to the polls on Election Day. I used to enjoy that a lot, but there’s always a chance that something — you know, ice storms or whatever — could happen. So I like to get it done.”

Early in-person voting is up in Kansas

Election offices across the state are experiencing a similar boom in in-person advance voting.

The Kansas Secretary of State’s Office reported that, through Tuesday, there had been 252,482 ballots statewide had been cast in person.

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That’s 54% above 2020, when there had been 163,527 in-person advance ballots at this point. It’s 80% above 2016, when there had been 139,912 early in-person voters.

Mail voting lags behind

While in-person is up, mail voting is down locally and statewide.

“Mail is down,” Howell said. “What I don’t know if people that normally vote by mail are now just coming and voting early, I wonder.”

Mail voting has also been the subject of criticism from some Republicans after former President Donald Trump in 2020 discouraged Republicans from voting by mail. He called voting by mail “corrupt” and alleged it led to cheating. Some Kansas Republican lawmakers have sought to end the three-day grace period.

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Secretary of State’s Office statistics also show that Democrats are leading Republicans in voting by mail.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Scott Schwab has been critical of the U.S. Postal Service’s handling of election mail, blaming USPS failures for disenfranchising voters in the August primary.

Kansas election offices had mailed out 161,410 advance ballots through Tuesday, of which 87,600 had already been returned, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

Compared to this point in the last two presidential elections: In 2020 — in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — there had been 501,446 mail ballots sent with 279,950 returned, and in 2016, there had been 191,307 sent with 102,130 returned.

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At least on the state level, the total number of early ballots cast in-person plus mail ballots that have been delivered so far in 2024 outpaces 2016 by about 41%. But it doesn’t outpace 2020, when mail voting skyrocketed during the pandemic.

So far this year, 340,082 advance ballots have been cast. At this point in 2020, there had been a total of 443,477 ballots, including both returned mail ballots and in-person voting. In 2016, there had been 242,042 in total.

‘Don’t wait’ until last minute to vote early

Voters in Kansas can vote early by mail and in-person, or they can wait until Election Day. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

Early in-person voting will continue until Monday. This week, voters can go to the Shawnee County Election Office at 3420 S.W. Van Buren Street between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays. Next week, voters can go between 8 a.m. and noon on Monday.

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“Please, if you’re going to vote early, don’t wait until noon on Monday, because there will be a line,” Howell said. “We’ve managed to keep it under five minutes on average. Most people it’s two minutes or less, but occasionally it’ll get a five-minute line. Monday at 11 o’clock, there will be a line, and it will be significant.”

Jason Alatidd is a Statehouse reporter for The Topeka Capital-Journal. He can be reached by email at jalatidd@gannett.com. Follow him on X @Jason_Alatidd.





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