Menninger, Capper to join state's Walk of Honor near Capitol
Bronze memorial plaques honoring Kansans Arthur Capper, Karl Menninger, Joseph McCoy and Fred Harvey will be installed this spring to the Walk of Honor taking shape on sidewalks leading to the Kansas...
View ArticleAuthor, educator Jim Hoy named Kansan of the Year
A crowd in Texas became a little cranky when Emporia rancher, author and poet Jim Hoy told them the popular Texas-themed ballad “Streets of Laredo” was written by a Kansan, written in the state of...
View ArticleTopeka Blues Society sends eclectic acts to International Blues Challenge
The Topeka Blues Society sent to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn., an eclectic group of acts: a Kansas City band fronted by an Arkansas-born R&B and blues artist, a singer,...
View ArticleBrownback stands by rhetoric on Planned Parenthood after activist indictments
Gov. Sam Brownback is standing by his rhetoric on Planned Parenthood, continuing to assert the organization trafficked in fetal body parts even after a Texas grand jury this past week indicted those...
View ArticleIncoming Topeka superintendent launches own audit of district functions
Come July 1, incoming Topeka superintendent Tiffany Anderson wants to hit the ground running.The energetic Jennings superintendent, who already commutes from her home in Overland Park to her St. Louis...
View ArticleOfficial: Low-income housing projects face long odds of getting tax credits
An official hinted this past week that the Topeka Housing Authority’s chances aren’t good this year to acquire federal low-income housing tax credits it is seeking to develop either of two proposed...
View ArticleDead body found near Larkinburg
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office discovered a body of a deceased person on Sunday afternoon, according to a news release.A body was found about one-half mile south of the Nebo State Fishing Lake,...
View ArticleWestar gets rule exemption to use drones
Westar Energy is set to deploy drones to help the electric company perform a variety of tasks like pinpointing storm damage and inspecting wind turbine blades.The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1PL0pg6 )...
View ArticleHouse measure sacks state's asbestos-worker certification
The state's environmental regulatory agency requested Monday a House committee support repeal of a 30-year-old law requiring annual training certification by Kansas officials of workers performing...
View ArticleKansas transportation officials discourage traveling west of Salina as...
SALINA — Kansas transportation officials are discouraging travel to central and western Kansas as a massive winter storm continues causing extreme travel problems.The Kansas Department of...
View ArticleWichita State statistician casts vote for regular auditing of Kansas election...
A Wichita statistician skeptical of electronic voting security endorsed Tuesday a recommendation by the Kansas secretary of state to allow post-election audits to determine whether mistakes or fraud...
View ArticleKansas hunting outfitters target of federal investigation
WICHITA — Federal agents raided a hunting lodge in Kansas’ Flint Hills as part of an investigation into allegations of illegal hunting and baiting that included the use of undercover hunters, GPS...
View ArticleOverland Park dinner theater cleans up from norovirus outbreak that sickened...
OVERLAND PARK — A suburban Kansas City dinner theater has spent $40,000 cleaning up after a norovirus outbreak sickened more than 600 people.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1P2YGFV ) reports that...
View ArticlePublic's help sought in Kansas parolee death investigation
WICHITA — Authorities are seeking the public’s help investigating the death of a parolee whose remains were found near Wichita.The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1Pwv4Sy ) reports that James Labat was...
View ArticleNelson-Atkins Museum learns 16th century oil-wood panel is a real Hieronymus...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, has learned that a 16th century oil-wood panel the museum owns was painted by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch.The work, “The Temptation of...
View Article2 killed in fatal car crash in suburban Kansas City
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Authorities say two 18-year-olds have died in a crash in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit.Police said in a news release that the crash happened Monday when the driver of a...
View ArticleMan convicted in 1984 Shawnee County murder found dead at Lansing...
An inmate at Lansing Correctional Facility incarcerated for a 1984 Shawnee County murder died Monday after being found unresponsive in his cell, said Kansas Department of Corrections spokesman Adam...
View ArticleHowling Midwest winter storm could spawn thunderstorms too
OMAHA, Neb. — A howling storm that dumped more than a foot of snow on some parts of Colorado was laying it on thick in Nebraska and Iowa Tuesday, bringing with it the potential for severe thunderstorms...
View ArticleKansas lawmakers criticize University of Kansas bond issue
LAWRENCE — Kansas lawmakers are criticizing an arrangement in which the University of Kansas borrowed hundreds of millions in out-of-state bonds to build facilities without the approval of the state...
View ArticleKansas among several states looking to ban sanctuary cities
State lawmakers returning to work are putting immigration issues on the agenda, with Kansas among about a dozen states considering measures against so-called sanctuary cities that would bar local law...
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