Kansas Ballet parters with Topeka Symphony on 'The Nutcracker'
Although Kansas Ballet’s past stagings of “The Nutcracker” have employed a tried-and-true recipe for satisfying audiences by featuring world-class dancers alongside top-notch local ballerinas, all...
View ArticlePratt County man dies in fire caused by space heater
PRATT - A Pratt County man has died after a space heater caught fire in his camper.The Wichita Eagle reports that the 68-year-old man was the sole occupant of the approximately 8-by-12 or -14 feet...
View ArticleKansas City man charged in Tuesday's fatal shooting
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A 21-year-old man is charged in the shooting death of another man in Kansas City, Kansas.The Wyandotte County district attorney’s office announced Thursday that Keyaun M. Lee, of...
View ArticleSecond man convicted in March shooting in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A second man has been convicted in the killing of a Missouri man in Kansas City, Kansas.Wyandotte County jurors found Demarkus M. Campbell-Donnell guilty on Thursday of...
View ArticleWichita man arrested in two shooting deaths
WICHITA - Wichita police have arrested a person wanted for questioning in a shooting that left two people dead in east Wichita.KSNW-TV reports that the man was taken into custody Thursday on suspicion...
View ArticleTwo killed in head-on crash near Preston
PRESTON - Two people have died and a third person has been injured in a head-on crash in south-central Kansas.The Kansas State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Thursday morning when a full-size...
View ArticleKansas labor market data: 12,542 more people working, but 2,600 fewer jobs
Data on the Kansas labor market painted a confusing picture in November, with one measure showing the state had 2,600 fewer jobs and another showing 12,542 more people were employed.Kansas added about...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court upholds Wichita capital murder conviction
The capital murder conviction of Marquis J. Marshall for the November 2012 killings of two people in a Wichita Dollar General store was upheld Friday by the Kansas Supreme Court.Marshall was sentenced...
View ArticleConsumer board steps back from plan to shift to fighting EPA
WICHITA - Members of the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board are pulling back from proposals they discussed last week to either change the agency’s mission or dissolve it.On Thursday, Ellen Janoski...
View Article$1.1 trillion government funding bill opposed by majority of Kansas...
A massive year-end spending bill attracted the support of just two members of Kansas’ congressional delegation Friday.The $1.1 trillion appropriations package, known as the omnibus bill in Washington...
View ArticleDefendant in 2009 Topeka slaying appears in court Friday
A woman charged with murder tied to her role with three other defendants in the shooting death of a man nearly seven years ago appeared in court on Friday and was scheduled for another hearing in late...
View ArticleKansas African American Affairs Commission alleges political holdup
WICHITA — A Wichita woman has been named the new executive director of the Kansas African American Affairs Commission.The appointment of Kenya Cox, the president of the Wichita branch of the NAACP, was...
View ArticleMan sues Archdiocese of Kansas City over alleged sexual abuse in 1980s
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Missouri man has filed a civil lawsuit accusing a Kansas City, Kansas, area Catholic priest of abusing him three decades ago.The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in Wyandotte...
View ArticleAbout 50,000 sign up through insurance exchange in Kansas
About 50,000 people in Kansas had signed up through the federal health insurance as of Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.That total doesn’t include the past five...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas to attempt holiday-sweater world record
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing holiday sweaters during the first half of the school’s upcoming men’s...
View ArticleKansas State University to spend $6M more on student union
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University is set to spend $6 million more than originally budgeted for the renovation of its student union.The Manhattan Mercury (http://bit.ly/1JgLnww ) reports that the...
View Article19-year-old in Topeka West case placed on three years of intensive probation
A teenager convicted of four felony counts of making aggravated criminal threats in which the victims were two Topeka West High School administrators and two law enforcement officers was placed on...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas to attempt holiday-sweater world record
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing holiday sweaters during the first half of the school’s upcoming men’s...
View ArticleHistory connects library's Topeka Competition 32 art entries
History is the connective element in Topeka Competition 32, a local art show with its own long history.For the first time since the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library’s juried art show began in...
View ArticleKansas moves toward more nuanced school accountability
Kansas launched a new online tool this month meant to give the public a more thorough and convenient source of information on the performance and quality of their local schools and school districts.The...
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