Stimulus keeps college tuition down
With all state universities raising tuition this year, Kansas college students might have suffered sticker shock.
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When is a tree that acts like a tree not a tree at all?
With all state universities raising tuition this year, Kansas college students might have suffered sticker shock.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.
Despite an infusion of $159 million into Kansas schools this quarter, education leaders said it has helped them only to maintain the status quo.
SUBLETTE — In the heart of Kansas' agricultural region, farmers and grain merchants have relied on the Cimarron Valley Railroad, a short-line railroad that helps get their crops to market, for the past 13 years.
OKLAHOMA CITY — An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport-utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.
OLATHE — In our last episode of "Willie Aames Confidential," the onetime star of TV's "Eight Is Enough" and "Charles in Charge" was holding a yard sale in front of his foreclosed home in Olathe.
FORT LEAVENWORTH — Texas billionaire Ross Perot has pledged $6.1 million to a private foundation to pay for programs at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College.
LAWRENCE — Kyle Snow marches out onto Laws Field in Eudora on a recent Friday night.
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas scientists who travel all over the state gathering data on lakes stayed home one day this week to conduct research in their backyard.
FORT RILEY — In the coming months, the 1st Infantry Division will roll up its "Big Red One" flag and plant it in Iraq for a year, the scene of a fight that's slowly becoming America's other war.
TOPEKA — William Avery, a one-term Republican governor in the 1960s and former U.S. House member, has died, the governor's office said Thursday. He was 98.
PRATT — A blizzard that dropped 30 inches of snow on Pratt County in March will set a record for the most snow in a 24-hour period in the state's history, state climatologist Mary Knapp said.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Shawnee husband and wife with poisoning the salsa at the Mi Ranchito restaurant in Lenexa.
The taxman is looking for 708 Kansans — to return more than half a million dollars.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —It was a gamble — building a polar bear exhibit before they had any of the coveted animals — but it paid off for the Kansas City Zoo.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Four years after two former utility company executives were last tried, federal prosecutors are trying to get their case back on track.
TOPEKA — A man who has spent three months in jail on charges of practicing law without a license maintains that he is being held hostage by a government that wants him to sign away his right to help others.
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson is suggesting that critics who think his administration isn't trying hard enough to lure thousands of jobs away from Missouri are pushing him to be fiscally irresponsible.
A program to help low-income families save for college is looking for more participants.