Independence, Kansas

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Local Information for Independence, KS

Latitude: 37.228251 -- Longitude: -95.711392

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On April 28, 1930, Independence was the site of organized baseball's first night game. The Independence team lost 13-3 to Muskogee, its Western Association rival. Almost 76 years later, on April 11, 2006, the small city made national news when it was reported that a young woman was abducted at gunpoint and held for about 15 hours by an unknown man driving a white van, who allegedly kidnapped the high school student from her front yard and forced her to jog to a lumberyard nearby, where the man's vehicle was parked; an AMBER Alert was issued, and camera crews roamed the streets, seeking interviews with friends of the alleged victim. However, on April 13, Independence faced the embarrassment of learning that the incident was only a hoax on the part of the young woman, and that she had actually spent the day by herself not far from town. -- Source: Wikipedia.com