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Kansas is one of 10 states that don't require newborns be screened for a critical heart problem, but state health officials have been working to educate health care providers about the benefits of the testing. Despite not being required to, most hospitals and birthing facilities in Kansas screen newborns for critical congenital heart disease. But about ...

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The coach of three Kansas state championship football teams was hurt early Sunday in a motorcycle crash. Osborne County Sheriff Kurt Miner says Steve Tiernan was four miles west of Tipton on Highway 181 when he crashed early Sunday morning. He was not wearing a helmet. Miner said Tiernan was stabilised at Osborne County Hospital and then ...

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Kansas State University researchers have concluded that the decades-long practice of Kansas ranchers burning grassland in late April could take place virtually any time with no ill effects. E. Gene Towne and Joseph Craine based their research on 20 years of data collected from burning at the Konza Prairie Biological Station south of Manhattan. They ...

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The Wichita school district isn't participating this year in a new federal program that aims to reduce the stigma of applying for low-cost meals by offering free meals to all students regardless of family income. Officials in the Wichita school district say the district doesn't plan to apply for the Community Eligibility Provision, a U.S. Department ...

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Tea party candidate Milton Wolf's chances of knocking off three-term Sen. Pat Roberts in Kansas have been complicated by renewed attention to an episode in the challenger's past. A Kansas newspaper recently reported that a state medical board is investigating Wolf's posting of graphic X-ray images of patients' wounds on his Facebook page in 2010. Wolf, ...

11 years ago
Five Republicans are running for Kansas insurance commissioner and seeking to replace retiring three-term GOP Commissioner Sandy Praeger. The GOP field in Tuesday's primary includes state Sen. Clark Shultz, of Lindsborg. He formerly served in the Kansas House as its Insurance Committee chairman Former state Rep. John Toplikar, of Olathe, is now a Johnson County commissioner. Beverly Gossage ...

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Kansas congresswoman Lynn Jenkins faces a Republican primary tea party challenger who accuses her voting to allow the indefinite detention of American citizens. Joshua Joel Tucker, of Pittsburg, also said Friday that the House's GOP leaders aren't doing enough to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama. Jenkins is seeking her fourth, two-year term representing the 2nd District of ...

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U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts and tea party challenger Milton Wolf have brought their contentious Republican primary race to the Kansas county with the most GOP voters for a parade and door-knocking days before the election. Both candidates participated Saturday in the Johnson County Fair's parade in Gardner. Roberts rode in a red truck well ahead of ...

11 years ago
A spokesman for U.S. Senate challenger Milton Wolf has acknowledged he initially failed to pay Kansas income taxes in 2000, resulting in a state warrant before the bill was paid off. Roberts' campaign raised the issue in a campaign mailer this week, just days before Tuesday's primary. Wolf campaign spokesman Ben Hartman on Friday said Wolf failed ...

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A Junction City man has been arrested after police say they found a homemade explosive device at his home. Junction City police said in a release Saturday that officers were called to a home on a report of someone making homemade explosives. Officers found a homemade explosive device at the home and arrested the 26-year-old suspect. The ...

11 years ago
A south Wichita neighborhood is losing its door-to-door mail delivery service because of problem dogs. Postal officials say the letter carriers in the neighborhood have been "challenged" several times by loose dogs and dogs that are on chains that are too long. Neighbors told The Wichita Eagle that mail for residents in the affected blocks is being ...