No. 18 Northern Iowa routed No. 12 Wichita State 70-54 on Saturday at the McLeod Center, dropping the Shockers into a first-place tie in the Missouri Valley Conference and ending the most dominant run by a Valley team since World War II.
When police in Tulsa and Oklahoma City shoot someone, their departments disclose the officers’ names, usually within about 24 hours. In Wichita, the department withholds names unless the police chief authorizes it.
The Wichita Eagle’s annual Oscar Ballot Contest offers a top prize of $350 worth of gift certificates to the Warren Theatres that are good not only for movie admission but also for anything else the theater sells.
What’s wrong with elections in Kansas is pretty obvious and basic – the 25,000 voter registrations in limbo over the proof-of-citizenship requirement and the room for growth in rolls and turnout. Yet the state’s top elections official is busy pushing fixes for nonproblems.
Politicians and public officials from both parties nationwide have been able to avoid – intentionally or accidentally – scrutiny for their decisions because of loopholes in open records laws when it comes to private e-mail accounts and electronic devices.
Key statistics: Northern Iowa made 24 of 40 shots (60 percent), shredding a defense that holds teams to 40.4 percent and allowed one other team (Hawaii) to break 70 this season. The past seven opponents failed to top 55.
Key statistics: Northern Iowa made 24 of 40 shots (60 percent), shredding a defense that holds teams to 40.4 percent and allowed one other team (Hawaii) to break 70 this season. The past seven opponents failed to top 55.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won the two presidential straw polls conducted by the Kansas Republican Party at its state convention in Topeka this weekend.
Former Senate hopeful Milton Wolf has taken to Twitter to chide Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration for sharing a draft of the governor’s budget proposal with lobbyists three weeks before its public unveiling.
A woman carried from a home Friday morning was found dead several hours later about eight blocks north of where she was last seen, Wichita police Capt. Brian White said.
Every college basketball coach preaches the importance of playing hard, but few do so as passionately as Kansas State’s Bruce Weber. The Wildcats keep track of every hustle stat that occurs during games on a play-hard chart.
The buildings – known as the Leona, Naomi and Ellington apartments – are on the National Register of Historic Places and the Register of Historic Kansas Places. The Historic Preservation Board earlier denied the developers’ request to tear down the buildings.
The daughter of late singer and entertainer Whitney Houston was found unresponsive in a bathtub Saturday and taken to a hospital in the north Atlanta suburbs, police said.
Before she got hate mail and death threats last Christmas, Ashlyn Sullivan was just a 20-year-old Wichita waitress working tables at a Buffalo Wild Wings.
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A 3-year-old boy found a handgun in his mother’s purse and fired just one shot that wounded both his parents at an Albuquerque motel on Saturday, police said.
Greece’s finance minister is holding talks in Paris on Sunday amid high tensions with international creditors, as his country’s new leftist leadership seeks European backing to renegotiate huge debts.
