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The University of Kansas is working to prevent another internet fiber cable cut that crippled the campus earlier this spring, with some officials arguing for funding to build a backup system. On March 29, construction crews accidentally cut a section of fiber, shutting down internet access across the Lawrence campus and wireless internet at the Overland ...

10 years ago
Kansas Democratic lawmakers say they've been circulating a petition to force a special legislative session to address the school funding. The move comes after the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the Legislature's latest attempt to enact a constitutionally equitable school funding system. The high court has meanwhile kept a June 30 deadline for lawmakers, raising the possibility that ...

10 years ago
Authorities have found a body downstream from where they'd been searching for a missing 11-year-old boy who fell into a Kansas creek. The Wichita Eagle reports  that Wichita police Deputy Chief Hassan Ramzah says the body was found Saturday by a kayaker. Ramzah couldn't confirm the identity of the body, other than to say it was ...

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A river area in Ottawa County has been searched three times and there is still no sign of a missing local man. 37-year-old Nathan Lancaster has not been seen since May 27th. He was last seen in the area of the Solomon River in Ottawa County around 180th Road. Lancaster was with several friends when he was ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City-area food pantry seeks to help low-income people with food allergies. The ReNewed Health Food Pantry has provided more than 12,000 pounds of allergen-free food since opening last April. Co-Founder Emily Brown says she started the pantry because of her first child's food allergies and because the extra costs ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City police are investigating after two people were found shot to death in a car. Police were responding early Saturday to a call of shots being fired when they found the two people dead in a car. Police did not release details of the shooting but said both were shot ...

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - An Olathe woman faces charges accusing her of stealing thousands of dollars from a suburban Kansas City school's parent teacher organization. Christine Ann Glover is charged in Johnson County District Court with one count of felony theft. She's accused of stealing more than $25,000 from the parent teacher organization at Pleasant ...

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HAYS, Kan. (AP) - Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run fatality in western Kansas. The Salina Journal reports 22-year-old Dylan Weiser was struck and killed May 15 by a driver who left the scene of the crash south of Hays. Weiser's body was found in a ditch. The Ellis County Sheriff's Department said in a release Friday that ...

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ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) - A prosecutor says one member of Great Bend High School's swim team has been convicted of a misdemeanor and another has been sentenced in connection with an assault on another team member. Ellsworth County Attorney Joe Shepack said in a statement Friday that a 17-year-old student was convicted May 31 of misdemeanor ...

10 years ago
BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say a 53-year-old man has died in a boating accident on the Neosho River. The Coffey County Sheriff's Office said 53-year-old Michael Myers of Burlington was in a small boat on the river Friday evening when the boat capsized. An officer from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks found Myers' ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Many Republican legislators in Kansas are angry with the state Supreme Court's latest order on education funding. They question the justices' motives and doubt the court will accept any further fixes from GOP lawmakers. Their views prompted Republican legislative leaders to abandon a push to pass further education funding changes Wednesday before lawmakers ...