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Associated Press | Feb. 8 at 1:42 p.m. Secretary of State Kris Kobach's proposal to require some potential Kansas voters to prove their U.S. citizenship ahead of this year's presidential election easily cleared a state House committee Wednesday.
Feb. 8 at 10:44 a.m. A scam artist claiming to be a down-on-his luck military man is trying to scam some Kansas churches.
By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press | Feb. 8 at 9:49 p.m. A bipartisan coalition in the Kansas Senate passed a congressional redistricting bill that has drawn criticism from some Republicans and leaves the senior member of the state’s all-GOP delegation in the U.S. House with a slightly more Democratic district.
By Deb Gruver, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 9 at 6:01 a.m. As it did for the Giants at the Super Bowl on Sunday, the fourth quarter saved Intrust Bank Arena from a loss last year.
The Associated Press | Feb. 8 at 7:41 a.m. Hutchinson Mayor Ron Sellers found out what it's like to be a crime fighter and a crime victim on the same night.
The Associated Press | Feb. 8 at 4:11 a.m. A group of Johnson County teachers is heading to the Kansas Statehouse to deliver signatures they have gathered in protest of plans to change the state employee retirement system.
Feb. 8 at 11:18 a.m. A European-cut diamond that someone dropped into a Salvation Army red kettle outside a Shawnee store sold for $6,325 Tuesday on eBay. The diamond, set in a ring donated by Meierottos Jewelers in Kansas City, North, was bought by an unknown buyer from out of state.
By Jerry Siebenmark, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 8 at 4:54 p.m. Wesley Medical Center officials finally celebrated their parent company’s acquisition of Galichia Heart Hospital — 412 days after HCA first announced the deal.
Molly McMillin, Air Capital Insider | Feb. 8 at 11:50 a.m. A Wall Street Journal blog reports that Hawker Beechcraft Corp. has hired bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers, according to people familiar with the matter, it said.
Eagle staff, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 9 at 9:19 a.m. The body of an elderly Kingman man who has been missing since Tuesday was found dead late Wednesday, prompting police to call off what had been called a Silver Alert.
Stan Finger, Finger on the Weather | Feb. 8 at 5:30 a.m. Some sunshine will peek through the clouds in the Wichita area today, forecasters say, but it will nonetheless be a chilly day.
Carrie Rengers, Have You Heard? | Feb. 8 at 7:42 a.m. WICHITA — Former E.M. Shorts Guitars luthier Andrew McCracken is now opening his own store, McCracken Guitars, at Eaton Place.
Carrie Rengers, Have You Heard? | Feb. 8 at 7:26 a.m. WICHITA — Tyron Bowen is returning to Oxford Square near 21st and Woodlawn to do hair, but this time he'll own the barber shop and salon instead of working for someone else.
Carrie Rengers, Have You Heard? | Feb. 8 at 5:30 a.m. WICHITA — Anthony Powell can now add hamburgers to his resume — loaded ones at that.
By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 8 at 9:23 a.m. “It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.”
By Brent D. Wistrom, Eagle Topeka Bureau | Feb. 9 at 8:47 a.m. Gov. Sam Brownback and a coalition of Republican and business allies rallied behind the idea of lowering income tax rates Wednesday as hearings on the governors tax cutting plan began in a House committee.
By Deb Gruver, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 8 at 12:27 a.m. How Intrust Bank Arena fared in its second year in downtown Wichita will come to light this morning after projections that it ended the year in the black.
By Molly McMillin, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 10 at 6:50 a.m. Steve Miller, who calls himself The Turnaround Kid, has spent his long career rescuing troubled companies.
By Suzanne Perez Tobias, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 8 at 9:32 a.m. Before a group of Heights High School students met poet Taylor Mali via video conference on Tuesday, they watched some of his spoken-word performances:
By Dion Lefler, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 7 at 5:49 p.m. The Wichita City Council has approved a traffic plan for Douglas that calls for the eventual elimination of a bottleneck that narrows the street to one lane eastbound for the block in front of Eaton Place.