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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been taken into custody after authorities say he threatened several people with a knife in a university residence hall in Lawrence. Lawrence Police Department Sgt. Ted Bordman says the 23-year-old was arrested around 5 p.m. Sunday. Bordman says several people were threatened with a knife in a dorm room in ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County authorities say a man has drowned after a boating accident on a private lake near Wichita. Sedgwick County law enforcement and emergency personnel were called Sunday morning to the private lake in western Sedgwick County on a report that a small boat had capsized. Two men were duck hunting in ...

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Two prominent journalists will highlight a two-day event at Kansas Wesleyan University. According to the school, longtime KAKE-TV anchor Larry Hatteberg and national photojournalist and retired White House Press Corps member Mark Reinstein will share their experiences covering local and national news at KWU's sixth annual Media Reflections symposium. The symposium is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday ...

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A Kansas State University professor has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his solo performance on an album with the Kansas City Chorale. Bryan Pinkall, assistant professor of music, and the Kansas City Chorale were nominated in the categories of Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album for their album "Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil." The Topeka Capital-Journal ...

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Wichita State University and a dormitory resident whose room is infested with bed bugs are at odds over who should pay an exterminator for a second round of treatments. Freshman Londyn Bobbitt says she first found bed bugs in November. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/1SBSvw3) reports that her room was treated, but that she found the bugs again last ...

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February is all about the Bard at Kansas State University as "First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare" makes its only stop in Kansas for a month of activities celebrating the famous work and marking the 400th anniversary of the man often called the world's greatest writer. "First Folio" is a national traveling exhibition organized ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Sedgwick County authorities say a 23-year-old man has died after being hit by a car. The sheriff's department says the accident occurred early Saturday morning. Sheriff's Sgt. Lanon Thompson told The Wichita Eagle that emergency crews treated the victim on the scene, but that he died. He says the driver of the vehicle ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Topeka man facing charges linked to an explosion in his car that injured his 4-year-old son has pleaded not guilty and waived his preliminary hearing. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that through his attorney, Jacob Daniel Schell entered not guilty pleas on Friday in Shawnee County court to charges, including aggravated battery ...

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - Sprint Corp. says in state filings that it has given layoff notices to 829 employees at its suburban Kansas City campus in the past three months. The telecommunications company provided the information late Friday in a filing with the Kansas Department of Commerce. The Kansas City Star reports that the notice was ...

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Nearly thirty hobbyists received a crash course on the operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or Drones, at the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus in Salina on Saturday. The course was presented by faculty, and students,  from the K-State Unmanned Aircraft Systems program. It included a two-hour classroom ground school session, followed by an hour-long one-on-one flights ...

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The superintendent of a St. Louis area school district has been named to lead the Topeka school district. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1OOpCa7) that the Topeka Board of Education voted Friday to hire Tiffany Anderson, superintendent of the 2,600-student Jennings School District. Anderson previously led the 10,000-student Montgomery County school district in Virginia. The Topeka Unified School ...