12 years ago
Nearly 70 years after Nebraska-born soldier Donald Schwab knocked out a German machine gun position on a French battlefield, his descendants are heading to the White House this month to accept the Medal of Honor on his behalf. The delegation representing the late Army lieutenant will include his son Terry Schwab, a physician in Fort Scott, ...

12 years ago
The Eli Young Band gave a unique concert experience in Salina Saturday. Prior to their show with Darius Ruucker and David Nail, the country stars played an intimate, acoustic set for about 50 people. The event was put together by Salina Media Group radio station Y 93.7 as a fundraiser to help fight childhood cancer. Those who ...

12 years ago
Kansas Democrats feel upbeat about their chances of unseating Republican Gov. Sam Brownback this year as Democratic challenger Paul Davis makes school funding a major issue. Several hundred Democratic officials and activists gathered Saturday for Washington Days, the party's biggest annual meeting. Caucus meetings and speeches Saturday came a day after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that ...

12 years ago
Lawrence police say they don't suspect foul play in the death of a 44-year-old Lawrence man whose body was found near the Kansas River. The Lawrence Journal-World reports emergency responders were dispatched at 8:48 a.m. Saturday after a member of a river cleanup group reported finding the body. Police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley says a preliminary examination ...

12 years ago
Weather officials will be watching major thunderstorms this year for a clue that may help indicate the path of potential tornadoes. The research stems from tornadoes last year in Kansas and Oklahoma that baffled weather researcher Jon Davies. The two large tornadoes — one near Bennington in north-central Kansas on May 28, and another near El ...

12 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A marathon spelling bee finally has a conclusion — after nearly 100 rounds and two weeks of anticipation. A seventh-grader and fifth-grader exhausted the Jackson County spelling bee's initial word list Feb. 22, forcing another day of competition. On Saturday, the seventh-grader was declared the winner after his opponent stumbled on "stifling" ...

12 years ago
A sure sign that spring is on the horizon: It's time to set the clocks forward for daylight saving time. Most Americans will set their clocks 60 minutes later before heading to bed Saturday night, but daylight saving time officially starts Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. You lose an hour of sleep, but daylight saving time ...

12 years ago
One of the most successful programs developed by K-State Research and Extension is about to start its 13th year. Walk Kansas, the eight-week program designed to promote activity and better health for Kansans, begins March 16. Registration information is available at county and district extension offices and at www.walkkansas.org . Walk ...

12 years ago
After spending his entire childhood being ill, a Salina teen is set to have a life-saving bone marrow transplant but unfortunately the procedure comes at a heavy price. 14-year-old Derek Gropp has had a long and hard journey since the day he was born. “He started getting sick when he was two days old and ...

12 years ago
An investigator from the Kansas fire marshal's office will help investigate an outbreak of fires in a rural northwestern county. The Ellis County Rural Fire Department responded Thursday night to five fires in four hours outside the Hays city limits. Rural Fire Director Dick Klaus said the first call involved a burning pile of ...

12 years ago
Salina USD 305 Superintendent Dr. Bill Hall says that Friday's supreme court ruling on school funding is a win for children across the state, but he cautions that it is a "partial win". Supreme court justices ordered the Legislature to boost two kinds of aid to school districts by July 1. It returned the case to ...