12 years ago
A Wichita State University instructor is conducting research aimed at making Google's Internet-connected eyeglasses safer for drivers. Assistant psychology professor Jibo He runs the school's Human Automation Interaction Lab, which uses an advanced driving simulator, eye trackers and sensors to study how driving is affected by things like texting. He says texting impairs drivers' ability to ...

12 years ago
Kansas State University researchers are laying the groundwork for a next-generation spacesuit that could monitor astronauts' health and use body heat to power electronics. A team of students and professors in electrical and computer engineering is working with a model spacesuit. The replica is made of multiple layers of material, including metalized fabrics to model the ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback will help mark the eighth night of Hanukkah during a ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse. Wednesday evening's event will feature the lighting of the menorah by Brownback, Lt. Col. Moran Omer of the Israel Defense Force and Spec. Eliezer Godblatt of the Army's 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley. Secretary of Labor Lana Gordon, ...

12 years ago
An amphibian-killing fungus has turned up in streams and ponds in Kansas, raising concerns among biologists. The Wichita Eagle reports that the discovery was made by students working with biologist Mary Liz Jameson in her Wichita State University field ecology class. Called chytrid, the infectious disease has killed millions of frogs worldwide. Jameson calls the discovery a ...

12 years ago
A new report finds Kansas could see about 7,000 new jobs if the U.S. and the European Union reach a free trade agreement. The report estimates Kansas' exports to the E.U. would increase by 23.4 percent if a comprehensive agreement is reached. Kansas Department of Commerce spokesman Matt Keith says Kansas had $1.8 billion worth of exports ...

12 years ago
Police say two people have been arrested after a person was killed in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot. Details have not been released, but Police Chief Darryl Forte tweeted about the incident Sunday night on Twitter. Forte said the death is being investigated as a homicide and that two suspects are in custody. Flashing emergency lights could ...

12 years ago
The future seemed so tantalizing just two years ago as the nation's big oil firms rushed into Kansas. They snapped up mineral leases from landowners for high prices and drilled horizontal wells to extract unknown riches from the same Mississippian Lime formation that had spawned an oil boom in neighboring Oklahoma. Now most of those big players ...

12 years ago
Hutchinson officials are exploring the possibility of making improvements to a sports arena in order to keep a national junior college basketball tournament in town. The city has issued a request for qualifications to find an architectural firm to determine the scope and costs of making changes to the 61-year-old arena. The National Junior College Athletic Association ...

12 years ago
Two people are hurt in a crash in rural Ottawa County late Saturday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 23-year-old Christopher Walker of Wichita was driving a Dodge Dakota pickup truck headed west on a rural road. He lost control. The truck slid into the ditch and overturned, coming to rest on its wheels facing ...

12 years ago
Democrats and Republicans are looking to military veterans to help them pick up seats in next year's congressional elections. Strategists say that veterans can capitalize on the public's high regard for military service and the public's disdain for Washington. In some of the most competitive House races, Democrats are pushing eight challengers who either served in the ...

12 years ago
A sport utility vehicle has crashed into a suburban Kansas City coffee shop, sending five people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. KSHB-TV reports that the SUV's driver told Gladstone police she thought her car was in reverse rather than drive Friday morning when she slammed into the Starbucks. Besides the five taken to the ...