11 years ago
Casey Kasem, the smooth-voiced radio broadcaster who became the king of the top 40 countdown, has died at age 82. Danny Deraney, publicist for Kasem's daughter, Kerri, says Kasem died Sunday morning. Kasem's "American Top 40" began on July 4, 1970, in Los Angeles. The No. 1 song on his list then was "Mama Told Me Not ...

11 years ago
Strong opposition to the Common Core education standards around the country is coming from home-schooling parents. They're not required to teach their children using those standards. But many parents are concerned that their use will mean pressure to teach their kids a certain way. The standards have been adopted in more than 40 states and were pushed ...

11 years ago
Even with tea party challenger Milton Wolf's feisty rhetoric and daily attacks, many Kansas Republicans saw U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts coasting to a comfortable victory in the state's Aug. 5 Republican primary. But that assessment was less certain after U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning loss last week to an underfinanced and largely unknown primary ...

11 years ago
It was a breeze, in more ways than one, on Saturday at the Smoky Hill River Festival. The trend of large crowds continued Saturday at the Smoky Hill River Festival. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, 22,519 people on Saturday passed through the gates and into Oakdale Park. Though heat was not a factor, the wind was. ...

11 years ago
Severe weather rumbled across central Kansas early Sunday morning. Damaging wind, large hail, and heavy rain fell across much of the area. The strongest wind was reported in Ottawa County. Wind up to 65 mph knocked down limbs an trees in Minneapolis, Tescott, Culver, and Bennington. There were also sporadic, brief power outages. Wind in excess of ...

11 years ago
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and other top lawmakers are urging a federal appeals court to overturn a decision by a judge in Kansas that they say would limit the authority of Congress to regulate federal elections. The lawmakers contend the ruling could limit Congress' ability to pass legislation protecting the right to vote. Their recent ...

11 years ago
Officials of Allen Community College are considering selling the school's 240-acre farm, citing low enrollment in agriculture courses. The Iola Register reports the farm's fate has drawn high interest among the eight students who live on the property, located five miles from the main campus in southeast Kansas. The college purchased the farm and built a classroom ...

11 years ago
Topeka police are looking for someone in a silver Dodge Magnum station wagon who fatally shot a man in front of a local residence after an apparent confrontation. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the victim, who hasn't been named, was pronounced dead at 3:40 p.m. Friday after being shot multiple times an hour earlier. Witnesses told police a ...

11 years ago
There were multiple things to do in Salina's Oakdale Park Friday, and a large crowd was there to do them. The 2014 Smoky Hill River Festival had promised a wide range of entertainment, arts, crafts, food, and fun activities for kids, and it delivered on that promise. Over 22,000 people packed the park to enjoy ...

11 years ago
The new address is already on the letterhead as the Kansas Department of Agriculture prepares to complete its 56-mile move from Topeka to Manhattan. KMAN-AM reports the agency will officially open for business Monday in its new quarters. The three-story building is on the edge of the Kansas State University campus next to the National Bio- ...

11 years ago
Oklahoma and Kansas may have the reputation as tornado hot spots, but a new analysis shows that Florida and the rest of the Southeast are far more vulnerable to killer twisters. Florida leads the country in deaths calculated per mile a tornado races along the ground, followed by Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio and Alabama. Southeast ...