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The shutdown of the federal government is delaying crucial information farmers use to plant and market crops and postponing the payouts of subsidies to the nation's growers. That is adding to the uncertainty among producers who depend on both the marketplace and government money. Among the casualties of the shutdown are the reports put out by the ...

12 years ago
A long-awaited appeal of a ruling requiring the state of Kansas to increase funding for public schools takes center stage Tuesday. The case is aimed at resolving whether policymakers arbitrarily shortchanged students or did the best they could in difficult financial times. The appeal comes from a Shawnee County District Court ruling that held that spending cuts ...

12 years ago
A Kansas attorney is asking a judge to suppress statements his client made when he went into Sedgwick County jail in December and asked to be arrested for killing his wife. Guy Wayne Palmer is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 16 death of his 61-year-old wife, Debra. The Wichita Eagle reports the woman's body ...

12 years ago
The Dole Leadership Prize is going to a civic organization started by former South Africa President Nelson Mandela. The Robert Dole Institute of Politics plans to present the 2013 Dole prize to Mandela's great-grandson, Luvuyo Mandela, on Oct. 27 at the University of Kansas. The $25,000 monetary prize is to benefit the Nelson Mandela Centre of ...

12 years ago
A 5-year-old girl has died and a firefighter who tried to save her suffered second-degree burns to the face after a house fire in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Star reports the fire was reported just after 4 a.m. Sunday, and when emergency crews arrived they found heavy flames coming from the rear and center ...

12 years ago
A new report says enrollment is down this fall at the 19 community colleges in Kansas. The report for the Kansas Board of Regents says statewide community college enrollments are down 3.82 percent, which is a drop of 3,095 students from last fall. The total number of students at the colleges was 77,829 when classes started. The ...

12 years ago
A bag tossed onto the roof of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Joplin contained incendiary material in what police are calling a failed arson attempt. Surveillance video from the facility shows a person dressed in a hooded sweatshirt approach the back of the building around midnight Wednesday and throw the bag onto the roof. The Joplin Globe ...

12 years ago
Animals at Rolling Hills Zoo, including an ailing kangaroo, were blessed Saturday afternoon. The Very Rev. Benjamin Thomas, Th.D. of Christ Episcopal Cathedral, traveled through the zoo performing blessings on animals, and their keepers. Father Thomas began with the big cats, moved to the primates, rhinos, and giraffes, before ending with the penguins. Along the way, ...

12 years ago
A man standing outside his vehicle after hitting a deer late Friday night is hit and killed by another vehicle. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 32-year-old Boe Keesling of Lyons was standing on the road outside of his disabled SUV after he hit a deer. A car came upon the scene, and hit both the ...

12 years ago
A Salina man has been convicted of first degree murder and other charges in the abuse death of his girlfriend's 14 month old son. A jury returned the verdict against 35 year old Antonio Brown on Friday - two years to the day after Clayden Urbanek died of what doctors at a Wichita hospital called some ...

12 years ago
The federal shutdown has already furloughed 772 members of the Kansas National Guard, and the Adjutant General's Department says 263 civilians who support the Guard will be furloughed as well. Friday's announcement says the civilians are state employees whose jobs are funded by the federal government. The adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, said 139 ...