12 years ago
School nutrition directors across the country say government-mandated changes to cafeteria menus have been expensive and difficult to put in place. Starting next school year, all grains served in schools will have to be whole-grain rich, or more than half whole grain. That includes pastas, rolls, biscuits, pizza crust, tortillas and even grits. The government is also ...

12 years ago
New government figures show Lawrence is the most expensive metro area in Kansas. Numbers released recently by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis show that although the city's cost of living is lower than the national average, it's higher than in any other metro area in Kansas. Lawrence residents also earn less than residents in other ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas resident roams eight states with the start of each spring. He hauls a refrigerated trailer, lives in a tent and looks for the morel mushrooms that he's hunted since childhood. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 40-year-old Ryan Gregg, of Lawrence, collected nearly 1,800 pounds of the mushrooms last year in his travels. He started ...

12 years ago
Conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are turning down an invitation extended in a full-page ad in their hometown newspaper asking them to join a public debate on climate change. The Wichita Eagle reports  that Friday's advertisement was placed by NextGen Climate Change, a group supporting the views of retired billionaire investor Tom Steyer. Koch corporate ...

12 years ago
Tickets for a first of its kind outdoors event in Salina go on sale Monday. The three day Smoky Hills Sportsman Expo is coming to the Bicentennial Center in August. American Country Awards nominee Craig Campbell takes the stage Friday, August 22 at 7:00 PM, part of the headline concert for the three day event, The ...

12 years ago
New research shows that U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students. The diversity gap comes as the number of minority students in public schools is on the rise. Almost half the students in the public system are minorities. Studies from the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association point out that only ...

12 years ago
About a weeks ago, a Salina organization that cooperates with multiple agencies in treating substance abuse announced an expansion project and fund raising campaign. A large donation has already been made to the Central Kansas Foundations's Pathfinder@50 Capital Campaign. According to the organization, a significant gift was awarded from the Elden V. Miller Family Charitable Trust, ...

12 years ago
Authorities have arrested a man charged with using a rural Douglas County home to produce methamphetamine. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Benito Olivas-Yanez was arrested Wednesday in Olathe. He's one of 17 defendants indicted in December as part of a conspiracy federal prosecutors say spanned from July 2011 to December 2013. Olivas-Yanez, a Mexican citizen, is scheduled to ...

12 years ago
Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he has no power under Kansas law to keep U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts off the ballot in the state's Republican primary. Roberts filed Friday for his fourth, six-year term in the Senate. He submitted the necessary paperwork shortly after tea party challenger Milton Wolf called on Kobach to reject any ...

12 years ago
The Kansas House of Representatives has rejected a bill that would have exempted private-sector health clubs from property taxes. The Wichita Eagle reports  that a House-Senate conference committee had earlier removed the proposed tax break from a bill that passed the Senate, but supporters in the House made a last-ditch effort to restore it in a ...

12 years ago
A 38-year-old Wichita man won't face the hard 50 prison sentence after the jury in his trial couldn't agree on giving him the heftier sentence. Jason A. Jones was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of 34-year-old Shawn Lindsey, who was injected with a lethal dose of methamphetamine in January 2013. Sedgwick ...