13 years ago
University leaders say cuts to the Kansas Bioscience Authority budget could have a negative impact on the state. The KBA invests tax dollars in and nurtures new companies in the biosciences and life sciences fields. It's been operating on a budget of more than $35 million per year in some years. State funding support, however, has ...

13 years ago
Sandy Praeger is approaching her final year as Kansas insurance commissioner with a national reputation for expertise on health care issues and a lengthy, unbroken string of election victories as a Republican in a GOP-leaning state. But Praeger acknowledges that she'd have trouble emerging from next year's GOP primary. The reason is the unusual niche she's carved ...

13 years ago
Army Chaplain Jeremiah Catlin is running marathons, but it's taken him six years to get there after beating Stage 4 melanoma. The Wichita, Kansas, native discovered a lump growing on his chest while deployed to Iraq in 2007. Army doctors told the 32-year-old to go home and celebrate the last Christmas he would ever have. He says he ...

13 years ago
Kansas authorities reported numerous slide-offs and one fatal wreck as a winter storm brought a mixture of freezing rain and snow this weekend. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for a large section of central and eastern Kansas, and winter weather advisories extended into the southwest portion of Kansas. Freezing rain started Friday night in ...

13 years ago
The family of President Dwight D. Eisenhower says his son, 91-year-old John S.D. Eisenhower, has died. The retired brigadier general and military historian had resided on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the community of Trappe, Md. No cause was given for his death Saturday. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was born in Denver in 1922 to Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

13 years ago
An anonymous donor has put up a $50,000 cash reward toward solving the 1999 disappearance of a southeast Kansas boy. Adam Joseph Herrman was 11 when he vanished from his adoptive family's mobile home in the Butler County town of Towanda. The parents never reported him missing, and the case only came to light when an ...

13 years ago
Kansas authorities are reporting numerous slide-offs and one fatal wreck as a winter storm brings a mixture of freezing rain and snow. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for a large section of central and eastern Kansas, and winter weather advisories extend into the southwest portion of Kansas. Forecasters say freezing rain started Friday ...

13 years ago
A 911 call about an alleged assault led Wichita police to a man suspected of trying to rob a convenience store. KFDI-FM reports the call was made late Thursday by the girlfriend of the suspect, who received minor injuries in a fight with the store's female clerk. Police Lt. Doug Nolte says the 28-year-old man entered the ...

13 years ago
A disciplinary panel says a former Kansas courts research attorney violated the rules of lawyer conduct when she used foul language in tweets about former Attorney General Phil Kline. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the three-judge panel ruled Friday in the case of Sarah Peterson Herr, who was fired from her Kansas Court of Appeals job over ...

13 years ago
The Salina Area United Way is unveiling a new campaign called ‘100 DOCS’. “The untapped potential for giving is huge. This is a way to reach out to medical professionals on a personal level,” Executive Director Amanda Michaelis said. The ‘100 DOCS’ represent 100 Doctors, whether they specialize in surgery, optometry, anesthesiology, psychiatry, or anything in between. ...

13 years ago
Two scientists from China have been indicted on federal charges accusing them of stealing seeds developed by a U.S. bioscience company and giving the seeds to members of a visiting delegation from China. A federal grand jury in Kansas indicted Weiqiang Zhang, an agricultural seed breeder at Ventria Bioscience's facility in Junction City, and Wengui Yan, ...