11 years ago
Three Republicans are trying to make history this fall. No Republican has ever been openly gay when first elected to Congress. Candidates in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and California hope to be the first. None has an easy path. Each must defeat a Democratic incumbent and confront passionate divisions within the GOP about how they live their lives. The Republican Party ...

11 years ago
The sale of Beechcraft to Cessna Aircraft's parent company, Textron, is expected to close in the first half of this year, pending government approvals. The Wichita Eagle reported two transition teams for each company have been formed to work out the details. Those details include such things as employment levels, production sites and reduction of costs. Also ...

11 years ago
More than 100 people attended a weekend meeting about the future of Lecompton's post office. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Mayor Sandy Jacquot encouraged the standing-room-only crowd Saturday to write the U.S. Postal Service and state government officials. Lecompton's post office is now open just four hours on week days and 90 minutes on Saturday. It was ...

11 years ago
A 41-year-old man has died in a fire at a duplex in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports fire crews arrived at the scene early Saturday to find flames coming out of a front window of the duplex. Wichita fire investigator Mark Reibenspies says a neighbor told fire crews that a person was inside. After crews brought the ...

11 years ago
Kansas education officials plan to ask for an extension of their waiver from the No Child Left Behind law. The U.S. Department of Education put Kansas on notice that it's at "high risk" of losing its waiver because Kansas hadn't taken enough steps to use student growth data as part of teacher evaluations. The waivers give ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback's administration says it expects the state to get federal permission soon to add long-term services for Kansans with developmental disabilities to KanCare on Feb. 1. Those services were taken out of the Medicaid managed care plan that began Jan. 1 after intense lobbying by disability advocacy groups. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the administration still ...

11 years ago
Lawrence police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found inside a home officers were checking on a missing person report. Sgt. Trent McKinley said Saturday that officers went to the home late Friday in an attempt to contact the individual reported missing by family members. Officers found the body of the man, ...

11 years ago
The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka has a full slate of activities planned to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Monday's lineup includes music and dance performances, dramatic readings and a student art exhibition. Throughout the day, park rangers will also offer art projects, games and other activities. All activities and performances ...

11 years ago
A new study by researchers at the University of Kansas shows that air turbulence created by wind energy turbines could pose safety problems for small aircraft. Tom Mulinazzi, a KU engineering professor, says wind turbines can set up a circular vortex that can roll a small plane if it gets in there. He says the ...

11 years ago
Members of the Kansas congressional delegation have split their votes on a federal spending bill that includes $404 million for building the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan. The $404 million was part of the $1.1 trillion appropriations bill to fund federal government operations through the federal fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. The ...

11 years ago
State officials are asking for public comment on a change in the permit for Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build a coal-burning electric plant in southwest Kansas. The permit changed after the Kansas Supreme Court in October told the Kansas Department of Health and Environment the permit had to comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations ...