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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP)- The estate of a University of Kansas graduate who helped develop the atomic bomb has donated $1.8 million to establish a new professorship in physics. The KU Endowment announced Wednesday that the gift comes from Ernest Klema and his late wife Virginia Klema, who also was a scientist. He died in 2008, and ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -  A former Fort Riley nurse has been indicted on federal charges of stealing fentanyl, a powerful painkiller. According to a statement Wednesday from U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, 56-year-old Lana Pendergast is charged with one count of unlawfully obtaining a controlled substance. Prosecutors say that while Pendergast worked as a nurse at Irwin Army ...

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The Kansas Senate has approved a bill designed to cut Kansas' costs in providing prescription drugs for poor and disabled residents. The chamber's vote Wednesday was 23-16, sending the measure to the House. The bill would allow the state's Medicaid program to use so-called step therapies for prescriptions that require patients to try less expensive drugs before ...

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A proposal to remove gifted children from the special education realm in Kansas has been abandoned after push back from gifted education advocates. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/20U62AL) reports that Republican state Rep. Sue Boldra said Tuesday that she planned to withdraw the proposal. Republican state Rep. Ron Highland, chairman of the House Committee on Education, said ...

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The Kansas House is preparing to debate a bill that balances the next state budget while also giving corrections officers in state prisons a pay raise. The measure on the House's agenda Wednesday eliminates a projected deficit of nearly $200 million in the $16.1 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The bill contains many ...

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The "Big Red One" patch means something to Soldiers, said the 1st Infantry Division's 64th commanding general. "They believe it. It's a part of them," retired Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan said Friday at Fort Riley. "Being 1st Infantry Division Soldiers means something to them. It's moral strength. It's like, 'people have done this for over 100 ...

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Part nomad - part scientist, Dr Greg Rasmussen slept under the stars and in the bush as he followed his passion in Africa, researching the Painted Dog. Dr. Rasmussen, who is in Salina to speak at Rolling Hills Zoo tonight, told listeners during the KSAL Morning News on Wednesday that living in close proximity to the ...

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A KSAL staffer has won a prestigious sports award. Mike Hammett has been selected as the 2016 Oscar Stauffer Award winner, honored as the Sportscaster of the Year by the Kansas State High School Activities Association. The Oscar Stauffer Award honors a sports broadcaster and newspaper reporter for their outstanding coverage of high school athletics in Kansas. ...

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A man who had been with the armed occupiers at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has been arrested on an unrelated warrant. The Oregonian reports that 31-year-old Brandon Dowd is being held in the Harney County Jail under a warrant from Kansas in connection to a theft case. He was not arrested for anything he might have ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -  A bill designed to address sexting among middle and high school students has advanced in the House. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the chamber is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to send the bill to the Senate. It's focused on 12- to 18-year-olds accused of transmitting images of a nude child. Under ...

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The discovery of fireworks above a ceiling tile prompted a Salina school to contact police. Police say that on Monday four packages of TNT brand firecrackers were discovered hidden above a ceiling in a boy's bathroom at Lakewood Middle School. The fireworks were found after a student saw someone he did not recognize place something in ...