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Two Garden City residents have been killed in a single-vehicle crash in western Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 46-year-old Terry G. Fraker and 48-year-old Vonda Sue Fraker died in the accident Saturday. The patrol says the accident occurred about two miles west of Garden City when the vehicle they were in ran off a roadway ...

12 years ago
Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer loaned $500,000 to Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign at the end of 2013. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports financial disclosure reports submitted to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission by the Brownback campaign revealed the last-minute loan from Colyer, Brownback's Republican running-mate. The contribution pushed the governor's total receipts for the year to $1.6 ...

12 years ago
A swift grass fire in southeast Kansas has burned several acres and damaged structures. No injuries have been reported. The Joplin Globe reports the fire north of Galena was reported Sunday. Firefighters from Galena, Columbus, Baxter Springs and two towns in southwest Missouri have been assisting. The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for the ...

12 years ago
Emergency crews have responded to a gasoline leak at a fuel distribution terminal in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Star reports the gasoline spilled Sunday at the Magellan Midstream Partners petroleum terminal. No injuries were reported. Magellan spokesman Bruce Heine in Tulsa, Okla., says the spilled gasoline is being controlled in a containment area at the ...

12 years ago
Uncertainty shadows the Kansas Legislature as it prepares to open its annual session Monday. Lawmakers are waiting for a state Supreme Court decision on whether the state is spending enough money on its public schools. Leaders from both parties believe education funding will be the Republican-dominated Legislature's most pressing issue once the high court issues ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas county's program that pairs farmers and preschoolers to teach the children about healthy food is looking for more funding. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Douglas County's farm-to-preschool "Healthy Sprouts" program has been funded mainly by grants that expire this year. Officials of the three-year-old program put out the word in November that Healthy Sprouts was ...

12 years ago
A University of Kansas task force exploring ways to update the classroom experience says one option is to minimize the amount of lecturing and using class time to work on problems and projects. Students in that kind of "flipped" class would read and watch lectures on their own time. Associate professor and task force member Andrea ...

12 years ago
An Emporia woman who lost more than 200 pounds is telling her story to a national audience. Denise Wolford, the office manager for the Lyon County Department on Aging, lost 217 pounds on Weight Watchers and will be featured on the company's website later this spring. She's also scheduled to appear on NBC's Today Show on ...

12 years ago
An experiment devised by Valley Center high school students has been launched into space. The Wichita Eagle reports the space flight launched Thursday included an experiment that five Valley Center high school students submitted to the Student Spaceflights Experiments Program. The experiment looks at the effect of microgravity on bacterial growth and its resistance to antibiotics. For ...

12 years ago
Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence has named a longtime university employee to the school's top position. The federal Bureau of Indian Education announced Friday that Venida Chenault, Haskell's vice president of academic affairs since 2004, will become the school's president effective Sunday. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Chenault also attended Haskell as a student and has held ...

12 years ago
A 58-year-old Garden City surgeon has died in a rollover traffic accident. The Garden City Telegram reports Dr. Michael J. Baughman died Friday after the one-vehicle accident south of Garden City. Baughman opened Sandhill Orthopaedic and Sportsmedicine in Garden City in 1993. He was also team physician for Garden City Community College and Garden City High School. The ...