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View Article'Star Trek' concert tour changes course to include Topeka
“Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage,” a 100-city concert tour of music from the television and film franchise, has changed course to include Topeka.Facebook posts Thursday showed the tour, featuring a live...
View Article3 charged with robbing Kansas City area bank with tot in getaway SUV
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three people have been charged with robbing a suburban Kansas City bank with a toddler in the getaway vehicle.Eighteen-year-old Jacob Smith, 39-year-old Gary Jordan and 26-year-old...
View ArticleFirst Zika virus case confirmed in southwest Kansas
State health officials say an adult from southwest Kansas has the state’ first confirmed case of the Zika virus.The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in announcing the case Friday that...
View ArticleWichita woman accused of abandoning grandson at store after shoplifting...
WICHITA — A Wichita woman accused of abandoning her 5-year-old grandson while fleeing a Kohl’s store after a shoplifting incident has been sentenced to nearly three years in jail.The Wichita Eagle...
View ArticleWireCo closing most of its operations in St. Joseph
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — A company that was once one of St. Joseph’s largest employers is closing most of its manufacturing operations and will eliminate all but 14 jobs.WireCo WorldGroup President and CEO...
View ArticleMary Brownback, Kansas' first lady, awards library grants to promote literacy
Kansas first lady Mary Brownback added a fresh chapter Friday to a grant program that helps public and school libraries acquire books and technology to inspire lifelong appreciation of learning.Most of...
View ArticleKansas State Fair announces 3 main-stage concerts
HUTCHINSON — Kansas State Fair officials have announced the first round of main stage acts for the 2016 event.The Wichita Eagle reported that the acts announced Tuesday include Suzy Bogguss, Lynryd...
View ArticleInvestigation underway in Kansas City killing of 5 in 2 states
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Mexican national is charged with killing his neighbor and three other men at his neighbor’s home in Kansas City, Kan., and later gunning down another man in Missouri.Pablo Antonio...
View ArticleOfficer fatally shoots man holding weapon on Kansas highway
WICHITA — A law enforcement officer shot and killed a man after he got out of a vehicle and raised a firearm along an interstate in Kansas.Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says officers received a...
View Article70 of estimated 100 witnesses give testimony during first week of Kyle Flack...
OTTAWA — If Andrew Stout was kicking out roommates, it was because he wanted to make room for a family, his mother testified Thursday.Karon Anderson, Stout’s mother, said her son wanted to live with...
View ArticleWichita woman pleads guilty in sex trafficking of 17-year-old girl
WICHITA — A 33-year-old Wichita woman charged in the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl has pleaded guilty in federal court.The Wichita Eagle reported that Natasha Harper pleaded guilty Wednesday to...
View ArticleJackson County deputies find baby, improvised explosive device in stolen van
A pair of suspects face several charges each after being arrested in Jackson County with an improvised explosive device and 1-year-old child.About 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jackson County deputies responded to...
View ArticleDirty Girl Adventures aims to empower, encourage women
Going on a Dirty Girl Adventures hike or kayaking trip is a no-makeup required, get grubby, meet friends, encourage each other kind of event, and that is exactly what its founder intended.Denise...
View ArticleMorgan Chilson: Hiking the stages of grief
It began innocently enough. A story assignment to cover Dirty Girl Adventures (I had expressed an interest) and a date to go on a hike. Then I discovered …It was an 8-mile hike. Eight miles. I knew I...
View ArticleAfter third trial, jury finds Kansas man guilty of murder
LAWRENCE — A jury has convicted a 31-year-old man in the 2014 death of another man.The Lawrence Journal World reports (http://bit.ly/22bR4Xq ) that Dustin Walker was found guilty Friday of first-degree...
View ArticleYahoo co-founder David Filo, wife fund $339,000 in Kansas classroom projects...
Clayton Schrader likes to keep his students engaged with “out-of-the-box” lessons.So when the fifth-grade teacher at Logan Elementary heard about “breakout boxes,” small lockboxes that require students...
View ArticleIn friar's robe and Army uniform, Topeka-born priest serves God and country
It is what the Rev. Peter M. Jaramillo wears under his liturgical vestments that distinguishes him from other Catholic priests of northeast Kansas.Most days, the Topeka-born Father Jaramillo, 61, wears...
View ArticleUnited Wind introduces third-party leasing to wind energy market
A New York startup is pushing into the distributed wind energy market in Kansas and other Midwestern states, backed by significant international dollars and the opportunity for landowners to use...
View ArticleBrownback raised tobacco bond idea with GOP leaders in early March after...
Gov. Sam Brownback met with House and Senate leaders one day after February tax revenue fell $53 million below expectations to discuss leveraging the state’s share of tobacco litigation settlement...
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