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Investigators say a fire at a University of Kansas fraternity house was caused by improperly disposed of smoking materials. No injuries were reported after the fire Tuesday at the Sigma Chi fraternity house. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire official Shaun Coffey said Thursday the fire caused an estimated $150,000 in damage. Flames were contained to the third floor but ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University has announced that a health and wellness course will be its first "massive open online course." The school joins dozens of leading universities that have begun offering free, digital versions of their most popular courses. The so-called MOOCs allow tens of thousands of students to take a class at the same time. But ...

11 years ago
With a squeeze on recreation space getting tighter, Salina City Commissioners were told this week that a new Fieldhouse in downtown would ease the bottleneck. Mayor Aaron Householter joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look at a newly proposed multi-use recreation center for Salina. Householter told listeners on Thursday he believes taxpayers should spend ...

11 years ago
The Governor's Water Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas will highlight policy and research developments on water issues in the state. The Kansas Water Office announced Wednesday the conference will be held Nov. 12-13 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan. Among the conference topics are working with available resources, developing additional supply sources and ...

11 years ago
A panel of college leaders from Pakistan will speak at Johnson County Community College about the role of education in fighting terrorism in their country. The educators from the Sukkur Institute of Business Administration are scheduled to speak the evening of Sept. 18 at the Overland Park campus. The U.S. Embassy has provided the Kansas college ...

11 years ago
The attorney for a home day care owner who ran over a toddler with a lawn mower says the accident was not a crime. Last week's incident is not aggravated endangerment of a child. He says his 39-year-old client didn't act recklessly. Moses says she feels terrible about what happened to the 18-month-old child. The woman has ...

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Kansas officials say about 20 percent of the state's 1.74 million registered voters took part in this month's primary elections. Secretary of State Kris Kobach chairs the three-member State Board of Canvassers, which certified the results of the Aug. 5 primaries on Wednesday. Nearly 351,000 ballots were cast. Kobach had predicted 22 percent turnout. The 20 percent ...

11 years ago
A court-appointed panel of petroleum engineering experts has sided with Omaha-based Northern Natural Gas over what it should pay for condemning nearly 9,200 acres in southern Kansas. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Wednesday gave the parties until Sept. 16 to file objections to the recommendations in the panel's 85-page report. The panel's findings stem from 19 ...

11 years ago
A Kansas board has approved the voter registration of a 92-year-old woman after she and her daughter presented copies of census records and a page from a battered family Bible to prove she was born in the U.S. Evelyn Howard of Shawnee went before the State Election Board on Wednesday because she had no birth certificate. ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a pilot and his passenger escaped injury when a small, twin-engine plane made a crash landing near an airport. The incident happened shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday at the El Dorado Airport in Butler County. Authorities say the pilot was doing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when the plane lost power in one ...

11 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback visited a school in Salina on Wednesday. The governor made a stop at Salina Central High School to meet with students in the Jobs for America's Graduates, or JAG program. The program is dedicated to preventing dropouts among young people who are most at-risk. A group of students and faculty gathered ...