12 years ago
In with classroom technology. Out with paper. That's the mantra of a seventh-grade language arts class at Perry-Lecompton Middle School, where teacher Saul Heide is using his school's move to computer tablets as an opportunity to shed the use of pen and paper. 6News Lawrence reports the district has been pushing technology. High school students are given ...

12 years ago
Majority Leader Terry Bruce says he expects the Kansas Senate to vote Wednesday on confirming three state Board of Regents members and other appointments by Gov. Sam Brownback. The Legislature is convening a special session Tuesday to rewrite a state law that allows convicted murderers to be sentenced to at least 50 years in prison. But ...

12 years ago
It's another sure sign that summer is nearly over. Fall's first hunting season is underway. Dove season began Sunday morning. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Kansas is often referred to as the Sunflower State, and maybe that’s why so many mourning doves summer here; they love sunflower seeds. Doves are one ...

12 years ago
A Kansas State University researcher says working overtime may cost people their health. Sarah Asebedo and her colleagues found a preliminary link between being a workaholic and reduced physical and mental well-being. Workaholics were defined as those working more than 50 hours per week. They were found to be more likely to have reduced physical well-being, measured ...

12 years ago
He has survived a brain hemorrhage, a stroke, a hole in his heart, and even working for Donald Trump in "The Apprentice". Friday night Bret Michaels rocked the Salina Stiefel Theatre, singing the greatest hits of his band Poison. Michaels, who has also starred in multiple reality television shows and is the star of the current Travel ...

12 years ago
The Country Stampede will be the focus of a show on the Travel Channel Sunday night. According to the Manhattan Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Country Stampede will be featured on Adam Richman’s new show "Fandemonium." The show features festivals and other gatherings from around the US and Canada and their respective fans creative and sometimes crazy ...

12 years ago
A motorcycle rider is killed when he skids in front of a car and is hit late Friday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 18-year-old Ethan Carroll of Council Grove was riding a 2001 Triumph motorcycle east on U.S. 56 Highway. He lost control and laid the motorcycle over onto its side,. The motorcycle slid ...

12 years ago
A Hutchinson teenager has admitted burglarizing two churches and a grocery store while he was on probation for a string of similar break-ins. 17-year-old Joshua Hickey pleaded guilty to the burglaries Friday in Reno County District Court. Judge Tim Chambers scheduled sentencing for Oct. 4. Hickey was granted probation in November 2012 after pleading guilty to 14 ...

12 years ago
Just when she needed it most, a northwest Kansas woman who lost her home to a fire won the lottery prize of her dreams: a VIP race weekend at Kansas Speedway. KAYS-AM reports Shelly Anderson's two-story home near Plainville burned down earlier this week. Anderson and her son escaped through a second-floor window, but her boyfriend ...

12 years ago
U.S. Census Bureau data shows the number of Kansans without insurance declined in 2011. The Wichita Eagle reports that nearly 349,000 Kansans under age 65 were uninsured in 2011, which is about 14.4 percent of the state's population. That compares with about 380,500 people who were uninsured in 2010, or about 15.8 percent of the Kansas ...

12 years ago
A Kansas high school coach who pleaded guilty to patronizing a prostitute wants to teach again. Todd Puetz pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor count of patronizing a prostitute and was given a 30-day suspended sentence. His lawyer, Lee Kinch, told The Wichita Eagle that Puetz, a tenured physical education teacher and coach in the Renwick ...