Viega, a plumbing and heating company, moving headquarters, 113 jobs from...
WICHITA — A plumbing and heating systems manufacturer plans to move its headquarters and 113 jobs from Wichita to Denver.The company, Viega, has been in Wichita for 10 years. Viega’s general counsel,...
View ArticleFrom machine guns to marijuana, KBI's new lab improves quantity and quality
Peering through the smudgeless glass of a firearm room Friday at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s new Forensic Science Center, assistant director T.L. Price pointed to a fully automatic machine...
View ArticleProcedural motion sets up Kansas Senate vote on food sales tax reductions
A Baldwin City legislator turned to a procedural device Friday in an attempt to compel Senate action on a proposed state constitutional amendment gradually repealing the statewide sales tax on food by...
View Article2 suspended Kansas, City, Kansas, officers under investigation
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Authorities say two Kansas City, Kan., police officers have been suspended and are under investigation.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1Rprywj ) reports that police said the...
View ArticleLeawood teen to solo with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra
Although 16-year-old saxophonist Jordan Savage admitted to being nervous in January when he competed in the Topeka Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Talent Auditions, music director and conductor Kyle Wiley...
View ArticleYWCA receives donation from Westar Foundation
A program aimed at empowering young girls and two of YWCA of Northeast Kansas’ major events got a boost Friday with a $7,500 check from the Westar Energy Foundation.Representatives from Westar Energy...
View ArticleMasons celebrate 150 years in Kansas with Mason Day at the Statehouse, make...
More than 150 people gathered Friday morning for Kansas Masons Day at the Kansas Statehouse in downtown Topeka.The gathering celebrated 150 years of Masons being in existence in Kansas, a release...
View ArticleBusiness leaders oppose Missouri religious objections bill
ST. LOUIS — Top executives from some of the St. Louis area’s largest companies said Friday that Missouri’s proposed religious freedom law could have a devastating impact on the state’s economy.Leaders...
View ArticleCommon Core K-12 standards get boot by Kansas House committee
The House Education Committee passed Friday a bill voiding statewide academic standards for public schools known as Common Core and requiring the Kansas State Board of Education to present a new set to...
View ArticleTeen sentenced to three years of intensive supervised probation in sporting...
A teenager who was one of four youths taking part in an armed robbery of the Academy Sports + Outdoors store on July 10 was sentenced Friday to three years of intensive supervised probation in the...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty in homicide on Wichita State campus
WICHITA— A woman has accepted a plea deal in a man’s shooting death on the Wichita State University campus.Eboni Fingal of Wichita pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and robbery in the August...
View ArticleFirearms expert says tests of Flack's shotgun matched ballistic evidence from...
OTTAWA — Microscopic scratches on test shot shells were consistent with the spent ammunition recovered from crime scenes in a spring 2013 quadruple homicide, a firearm expert said Friday.Jason Butell,...
View ArticleMotorist hospitalized after SUV struck guardrail in west Topeka
A Topeka motorist was hospitalized Saturday after he apparently suffered a medical episode, and the SUV he was driving left a highway, striking a guardrail, according to Topeka police.The identity of...
View ArticleCustomers receive free doughnuts in Midland Care pay-it-forward kindness...
Miles Dixon, 2, walked into a bakery for his Saturday doughnut and walked out with an early lesson in giving kindness to others.Miles and his mother, Hailey Dixon — both dressed in University of Kansas...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas clears professor who used racial slur
LAWRENCE — A four-month investigation into a University of Kansas professor who used a racial slur in class has concluded the word was used in an educational context and not intended to be...
View ArticleTeens survive after airplane crashes on Kansas golf course
WICHITA — Two teenagers were able to walk away from a rented airplane that one of them was piloting when it crashed onto a Kansas golf course, narrowly missing nearby homes.A 17-year-old boy was flying...
View ArticleKansas is large part of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lanker's retrospective book
Although Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Brian Lanker traveled the world and captured images of famed athletes, supermodels and celebrities, a retrospective of his career includes several images...
View ArticleFacing staffing shortfall, Larned State Hospital spends faster than budgeted
Larned State Hospital has implemented stringent spending controls after burning through more than 60 percent of its annual budget in six months — yet another difficulty facing a facility already...
View ArticleAs U.S. makes progress in fight against HPV, local pediatrician recommends...
A study published this month in the journal Pediatrics suggests the U.S. is making progress against a cancer-causing virus most people carry at some point in their lives — human papillomavirus, or...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court seeks dismissal of 'puzzling' Phill Kline lawsuit
The seven justices of the Kansas Supreme Court asked a federal judge this week to dismiss a lawsuit against them by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, calling one of his arguments “puzzling”...
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