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An active week of severe weather in Kansas is expected this week. To start the week, tornadoes touched down in parts of the state on Monday. Late in the afternoon a large wedge tornado touched down over open country near Smith Center. Late in the evening a tornado touched down in the Marysville area, damaging a couple of ...

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - After several years of political and fiscal wrangling, Kansas officials are preparing to formally break ground on a new federal biodefense lab in Manhattan. Officials including Governor Sam Brownback and leaders of Kansas State University will hold a ceremony Tuesday as ground is broken for the lab's utility plant. It marks the start ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas legislators are going back to work on tax cuts and the budget, still uncertain when they'll wrap up their annual session. House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a plan to cut personal income taxes to follow up on massive reductions approved last year. The proposal sets the sales tax at ...

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Officials of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce have presented the first installment of a special fund to their counterparts in the tornado-stricken town of Moore, Okla. The Joplin Globe reports the $20,000 in donations delivered Saturday are intended to help the Moore Chamber of Commerce start its own business recovery fund. A similar initiative was launched ...

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A windy, overcast day greeted a large group of Salinans Monday for Memorial Day ceremonies. A brief service was held at the VFW Cemetery at Gypsum Hill, followed by a similar service at the American Legion Cemetery at Roselawn. Activities culminated with a gathering at the Saline County War Memorial in Sunset Park. Army Lt. Colonel Richard ...

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A small school district in southeast Kansas is shelving traditional textbooks and paper tests as it goes all-digital beginning this fall. The Iola Register reports the USD 258 district in Humboldt will issue laptop computers, available for after-school take-home, to students in grades four through 12. In kindergarten through third-grade classrooms, pupils will be given iPads ...

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Three people are hurt in a single-vehicle crash early Monday morning on Interstate 70 west of Salina. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 24-year-old Mark Armstrong from Conroe, Texas, was driving a semi east on I 70. He took his eyes off the road as he bent over to get something off floor. The truck and ...

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A restored World War II bomber will offer flights over Wichita next month to give passengers a sense of what veterans saw in combat more than 60 years ago. Public flights and tours are June 1-2, but the B-17 Flying Fortress was expected to draw attention with a scheduled flight over Wichita on Monday. The bomber is ...

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Republican legislative leaders' difficulties this year in nailing down the details of tax legislation are partly rooted in successes GOP conservatives enjoyed in elections last year. In August 2012, conservatives unseated top Senate Republicans. They shattered a moderate GOP-Democratic coalition that bedeviled Republican Governor Sam Brownback on issues such as taxes and pensions. Conservative legislative leaders agree ...

11 years ago
The city of Hays and Ellis County are at odds over the sale and use of fireworks this summer in the midst of persistent drought. Hays city commissioners voted Thursday to prohibit the sale and use of fireworks in the city for 2013. The Hays Daily News reports that Ellis County commissioners, however, passed an ordinance earlier ...

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Some Kansas lawmakers have have decided to turn down additional pay as the Legislature heads past its 90-day session limit. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that day 90 was Thursday, which means legislators will go past their limit, as they have in 32 of the past 40 years. Last year's session went 99 days. But each ...