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Police watch for DUI over holiday

BY STAN FINGER, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 12:06 a.m.

Local law enforcement officials launch a weeklong crackdown on unsafe driving today in an attempt to make streets and highways safer over the Thanksgiving travel period.

  • Senate: Let train riders check firearms in bags

    By BRAD COOPER, Kansas City Star | Today at 12:06 a.m.

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The U.S. Senate has voted to allow Amtrak passengers — for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001 — to transport guns in checked bags.

  • Old missile sites still get attention

    Associated Press | Nov. 22 at 12:03 a.m.

    TOPEKA — Though the weapons have long since been removed, Cold War-era missile sites in Kansas still draw careful attention from the Army Corps of Engineers.

  • Girl gives Make-A-Wish wish to KC-area food bank

    By LEE HILL KAVANAUGH, Kansas City Star | Nov. 22 at 2:57 a.m.

    Julie Brock-Garcia knows wishes come true.

  • Ashcroft opposed to civilian 9/11 trials

    By DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press | Nov. 21 at 12:08 a.m.

    OVERLAND PARK _ Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who on Friday endorsed fellow Republican Todd Tiahrt's U.S. Senate campaign, condemned the Obama administration for moving the trial of Sept. 11 terrorism suspects to civilian rather than military court.

  • KU researchers work to turn sewage into fuel

    Associated Press | Nov. 21 at 1:53 a.m.

    LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers are working to turn microbes from treated sewage into a commercially viable biofuel, that one day could be used to power the nation's cars, trucks, airplanes and other modes of transportation.

  • Woman, 92, pens poetry

    BY PHIL ANDERSON, Topeka Capital-Journal | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m.

    TOPEKA — Topekan Peg Penry has just published her fifth book of poetry, this one a collection of religious verse she has written through the years.

  • Girl, 2, bounces back from accident

    BY SHAWN LINENBERGER, Lawrence Journal-World | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m.

    TONGANOXIE — Brooklyn Sickman sits in her mother's lap and asks for a piece of a Cheeto. And then another.

  • Cost of university housing may rise

    By DAVID KLEPPER, Eagle Topeka bureau | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m.

    TOPEKA — The cost of room and board at Kansas' public universities is inching up, even as tuition increases and state funding for higher education drops.

  • 'Phantom' Kansas districts get real money, for real projects

    BY JEANNINE KORANDA, Eagle Topeka bureau | Nov. 20 at 6:16 a.m.

    The money is going to a Head Start program, low-income housing projects, the Kansas Highway Patrol and a variety of construction and repair projects in Kansas.

  • Report: No crimes committed by K- State

    By DAVID KLEPPER, Eagle Topeka bureau | Nov. 20 at 6:05 a.m.

    TOPEKA — Kansas State University's new president said he hopes it can move on now that a final report on widespread financial irregularities found that no crimes were committed.

  • Regents: State needs to consider tax hike

    By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press | Nov. 19 at 12:05 a.m.

    TOPEKA — Two members of the board overseeing Kansas' higher education system said Wednesday that the state needs to consider raising new tax revenues because of its budget problems.

  • State offers loans for energy upgrades

    BY BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 18 at 10:38 a.m.

    A new state program aims to help Kansans reduce their energy use and save money on monthly utility bills.

  • Driver's ed official hopes state funding will be safe

    Associated Press | Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m.

    HUTCHINSON — While more than a dozen Kansas school districts dropped driver's education programs last year because of the state's budget troubles, the programs' state director hopes the trend won't continue.

  • State's flu rate down, but still double the norm

    Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m.

    TOPEKA — The percentage of people reporting flulike symptoms at outpatient clinics has declined slightly but is still twice the number of reports normally seen this time of year, Kansas health officials say.

  • 5 more tied to scam of state governments

    BY LAWRENCE MESSINA, Associated Press | Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m.

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. —A federal grand jury in West Virginia has linked five more people to an international scam that allegedly tricked government agencies in several states — including Kansas — into paying at least $3.3 million to bogus companies with names that sounded like legitimate firms.

  • States eye college-credit exchange Web site

    By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press | Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m.

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —A dozen Midwestern states are studying the creation of a college-credit exchange that could make it easier for college dropouts to finally complete their degrees.

  • Kansas is part of Vonage settlement

    BY dion lefler, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m.

    Kansas will receive about $45,000 of a $3 million, multi-state settlement with Vonage, a company that provides voice-over-Internet phone service, the state's attorney general announced Monday.

  • Wichita reporter wrote book about murders

    BY BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 15 at 5:10 a.m.

    Was it the Clutter murders or Truman Capote, as a storyteller, that keeps the interest alive five decades later?

  • Killings of Holcomb family in '59 still haunt

    BY BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 16 at 4:25 p.m.

    It has been a half-century since two ex-convicts on parole from the state penitentiary murdered Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their children Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, on Nov. 15, 1959 in Holcomb.

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