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A Kansas high school senior has launched a petition drive urging school officials to rethink their decision to have first lady Michelle Obama speak at graduation next month in Topeka. Taylor Gifford started the drive Thursday evening after concerns were raised by students and parents that Obama's visit would alter graduation plans, including limiting seating for ...

12 years ago
Kansas is not going to expand its Medicaid program anytime soon in line with the federal health care overhaul. But advocates aren't giving up on the idea. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved still plans to pursue the issue. Spokeswoman Katrina McGivern said the group has prepared to work on educating ...

12 years ago
A judge has denied a change of venue request for a man accused of shooting an assistant football coach to death outside a Joplin movie complex. The Joplin Globe reports  that Circuit Judge Gayle Crane has denied the venue change for 40-year-old Jeffrey Bruner, who's charged in the Nov. 1 death of 37-year-old Derek Moore. Moore ...

12 years ago
A Topeka business has started publicly offering compressed natural gas to some drivers. Questar Fueling's, compressed natural gas filling station has been open since October, but opened Thursday to most of the public. Compressed natural gas is chemically the same as the natural gas used for other purposes, but Dennis Brown, CNG specialist for Kansas Gas Service, ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has criticized Gov. Sam Brownback for signing a judicial budget that ties funding to policy changes. The bill allocates $2 million more from the state general fund to the judicial branch. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss has said that more than $8 million would be needed. The high court said in a statement Friday ...

12 years ago
About 3,000 people attended services for a doctor and his 14-year-old grandson killed in shootings at a Jewish center in suburban Kansas City. Services for 69-year-old William Corporon and his grandson, Reat Underwood, were Friday at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood. Reat, a freshman at Blue Valley High School, and his grandfather were ...

12 years ago
Two people have been killed in a two-vehicle crash in western Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that 40-year-old Jesse Pfannenstiel of Woodston, and 26-year-old Justin Kennedy of Greensburg, died in the crash. The patrol says the crash occurred Friday night when the vehicles they were in collided at an intersection in rural Ellis County. The patrol ...

12 years ago
Visitors to Rolling Hills Zoo had the opportunity Saturday to see some of the most dangerous reptiles in the world, up close and personal. The new exhibit REPTILES: The Beautiful and the Deadly opened to the public. The exhibit features a large display of large and small live venomous snakes and lizards, and also turtles and ...

12 years ago
A three-member task force appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback to explore whether man-made activity has caused a rise in earthquakes across southern Kansas isn't making much progress, mainly because of a lack of data and disagreement among scientists about what's causing the ground to shake. The group met Wednesday with about 85 stakeholders to discuss whether ...

12 years ago
About 3,000 people attended services for a doctor and his 14-year-old grandson killed in shootings at a Jewish center in suburban Kansas City. Services for 69-year-old William Corporon and his grandson, Reat Underwood, were Friday at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood. Reat, a freshman at Blue Valley High School, and his grandfather were ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is sentenced to probation in connection with child exploitation crimes. The case stems from the 2012 arrest of 33-year-old Joel Beets. He was arrested as part of an investigation by Salina police and the Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children task force. Beets was in Saline County District Court Friday morning for sentencing. Assistant Saline ...