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Cosmosphere hosts 'Storm Chaser' star

His tornado intercept vehicle is equipped with composite armor, steel and bullet-proof glass.

No decision yet on possible hate crime

COUNCIL GROVE — The U.S. attorney's office said Thursday it had not determined whether the case of a black man being doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire was racially motivated, but the suspect's attorney said he doubted the case constitutes a federal hate crime.

Leavenworth weighs how to cut number of coyotes inside city

LEAVENWORTH — Leavenworth city officials are considering ways to reduce the number of coyotes inside city limits, possibly by including the animals in an ordinance designed to control the urban deer population.

One in custody after farm vandalism

CLYDE — Some farmers in Cloud County, where vandals damaged expensive equipment on five farms last week, say the days of trusting people enough to leave keys in their tractors, trucks and combines are over.

EPA: State stretched truth on power plant

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The long fight over whether to build a coal-fired power plant in western Kansas has taken another strange twist:

Baby's last night at KC home detailed

The night before her 10-month-old daughter disappeared, Deborah Bradley spent several hours talking with a friend, smoking cigarettes and drinking five to 10 glasses of wine.

Kan. anti-tax drive backed by Missouri billionaire

A new campaign to repeal the Kansas income tax is being bankrolled in part by a Missouri billionaire and anti-income-tax crusader.

First snow flurries could fall in Wichita area today

Kansas will get its first widespread taste of winter — and Wichita could see its first snow flurries — from a storm system rolling in from the Rockies this morning.

Funds for investigator sought in murder case

TOPEKA — An attorney for a woman charged with murder in the 2002 deaths of her ex-husband and his fiancee in Topeka is asking a judge to allow the use of money from a state fund to pay a private investigator to pursue "a previously unknown suspect" in the case.

Three missing in explosion at grain elevator found dead

ATCHISON — As the van rolled away Monday from the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator, 12-year-old Teagan Keil reached in to hand the driver a flower to lay on his father's body.

Brown Foundation's leader comes under fire

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —It sounded like such a perfect fit:

Three still missing after Atchison grain elevator explosion

ATCHISON — Ramona Keil was talking on the phone Friday afternoon to her son Travis, a grain inspector at the Bartlett Grain Co., about his weekend plans.

K-State studies copperhead's ability to clone itself

TOPEKA — Eva Horne is keeping her eye on a copperhead snake that has been living in her house the past several months.

Haunted house to raise funds for historic Garden City hotel

GARDEN CITY — When the dark side of Garden City materializes, it's hard not to look on the bright side.

KC lawyer stops work on Lisa Irwin case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The Kansas City lawyer for the family of baby reported missing more than three weeks ago announced Friday she has stopped representing the family, leaving them with one New York-based attorney.

Arts Commission to revive special license plates

TOPEKA — New Kansas Arts Commission members plan to revive a project to raise private dollars for its programs only months after the agency dropped it amid a budget dispute with Gov. Sam Brownback that made Kansas the only state in the nation to eliminate its arts funding.

Johnson County's number of people who are homeless rises

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Although it may not always be visible, Johnson County has a homeless population. And it's growing.

Huelskamp: Health privacy at risk

U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp told a Wichita Republican group Friday that the federal government will be digging into everyone's private medical records to implement the Affordable Care Act.

Kiowa County gets historical museum

GREENSBURG — The opening of the Kiowa County Historical Museum next week will be another milestone for Greensburg as it continues to rebuild from a May 2007 tornado that virtually destroyed the town

Kansas told it won't get any federal arts funding

TOPEKA — Kansas has been told again by the National Endowment for the Arts that it won't receive federal funds, prompting the state Arts Commission's chairwoman to declare that the group will move forward with a "truly Kansas" plan for supporting arts programs with private money.

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