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Teens' artificial trees will store CO2

By MARA ROSE WILLIAMS, Kansas City Star | Today at 12:07 a.m.

When is a tree that acts like a tree not a tree at all?

  • Stimulus keeps college tuition down

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 12:07 a.m.

    With all state universities raising tuition this year, Kansas college students might have suffered sticker shock.

  • Teen's husband by contract is charged with rape

    By CHRISTINE VENDEL, Kansas City Star | Today at 12:07 a.m.

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.

  • Schools save programs but hurt chance for federal aid

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 12:07 a.m.

    Despite an infusion of $159 million into Kansas schools this quarter, education leaders said it has helped them only to maintain the status quo.

  • KDOT, partners plan short-line rail upgrade

    Associated Press | Nov. 7 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • Group seeks inquiry of elephant's treatment

    By MURRAY EVANS, Associated Press | Nov. 7 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • Willie Aames embarks on career as financial adviser

    By AARON BARNHART, Kansas City Star | Nov. 7 at 1:53 a.m.

    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.

  • One Army school gets pledge for $6 million

    By JOHN MILBURN, Associated Press | Nov. 7 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • Eudora High student helps classmate particpate in marching band

    BY JANET REID, Lawrence Journal-World | Nov. 6 at 12:50 a.m.

    LAWRENCE — Kyle Snow marches out onto Laws Field in Eudora on a recent Friday night.

  • KU scientists examine dredging KU's Potter Lake

    BY CHRISTINE METZ, Lawrence Journal-World | Nov. 6 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • A different Iraq for Big Red One

    BY JOHN MILBURN, Associated Press | Nov. 6 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • Former governor William Avery dies

    By JOHN MILBURN, Associated Press | Nov. 6 at 12:07 a.m.

    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 snowfall sets state's 24-hour record

    Associated Press | Nov. 6 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • Feds charge two in poisoned-salsa case

    By BRAD COOPER, Kansas City Star | Nov. 6 at 12:07 a.m.

    Federal prosecutors have charged a Shawnee husband and wife with poisoning the salsa at the Mi Ranchito restaurant in Lenexa.

  • IRS wants to return money to Kansans

    BY JEANNINE KORANDA, Eagle Topeka bureau | Nov. 6 at 6:54 a.m.

    The taxman is looking for 708 Kansans — to return more than half a million dollars.

  • KC Zoo to receive polar bear

    BY MATT CAMPBELL, Kansas City Star | Nov. 5 at 12:07 a.m.

    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.

  • Prosecutors seek 3rd trial for Wittig, Lake

    BY DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press | Nov. 3 at 11:03 p.m.

    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.

  • Man accused of practicing law maintains his right

    Associated Press | Nov. 2 at 11:05 p.m.

    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.

  • Gov. criticized over KC Wizards incentives

    By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press | Nov. 3 at 5:47 a.m.

    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.

  • College-savings program wants more participants

    BY BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 3 at 6 a.m.

    A program to help low-income families save for college is looking for more participants.

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