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A letter detailing the mood after Truman defeated Dewey that was lost in the postal system for nearly 60 years recently turned up in the mailbox of a Kansas woman.
Bill Self, the Kansas basketball coach who guided the Jayhawks to their first NCAA championship in 20 years, signed a 10-year, $30 million contract Wednesday.
Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers’ Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers in a Kansas town.Building on an...
The manager of a minor league baseball team in Kansas is under a four-game suspension for an on-field tirade with the home-plate umpire over a called strike.Wichita Wingnuts manager Kash Beauchamp (BEE’-chum) was ejected in the second inning of...
Hundreds of people in Kansas are hoping their pennies go a long way.Residents of Fort Scott, just west of the Missouri line, are spending the week trying to break two world records: the longest line of pennies and assembling a mile of pennies in the...
Wheat prices shot up Wednesday after more rain doused parts of the flood-stricken Midwest and Kansas embargoed some winter wheat to test for pesticide residue. Corn and soybeans also rose.Other commodities mostly traded lower, led by a big drop in crude...
Kansas farmers were finally able to get into their fields to harvest winter wheat over the weekend as the ground dried out ahead of the next wave of storms.But the Kansas wheat harvest still lags well behind normal averages and farmers are scrambling to...
Residents of this town nearly wiped off the map by a tornado are extending assistance to another Kansas community struck by a twister a year later.Greensburg, in southwest Kansas, was mostly destroyed by a tornado that rated 5 on the Enhanced Fujita...
Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is appealing his extradition from Mexico.The Kansas attorney general’s office says a higher court in Mexico will review the case against...
A western Kansas man has pleaded no contest to mistreating his girlfriend, who became stuck to a toilet after refusing to leave the bathroom for two years.Police discovered Kory McFarren’s girlfriend, Pam Babcock, physically stuck to the toilet in...
This is the newly completed 547 Art Center, Greensburg, Kansas - named after the tornado that almost destroyed the whole town. It was built in Lawrence, broken down, transported by road and later assembled in Greensburg. The building is a project of...
The world is surely realizing at a very rapid pace that it is better to explore in the direction of alternate sources of energy not just for the greater good of the planet, but also for the simple and important purpose of saving bills. The problem...
American foreign policy in the Middle East (rather war on Iraq) has earned an extensive criticism for President Bush. Not only the so-called ‘war on terror’ ruined Iraq from top to bottom, by dividing and pushing the nation into never-ending seatrain...
Have you ever heard of Davis memorial, the weirdest grave of west? It’s the international memorial and the most famous attraction in Hiawatha, Kansas. John Milburn Davis erected this memorial to the sacred memory of his wife, Sarah. John commissioned...
In the first half of 2006, the United States experienced the highest ever recorded temperatures in the continent! The January temperatures across the month of June were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average.
The burnt of the record...
The Pacific Research Institute recently released the Economic Freedom Index replicated from the Index of Economic Freedom, which is published, by The Brooking Institution and the Wall Street Journal.
However, the newly released Economic Freedom Index...
For many Americans, this April may have been a pleasant spring, but it is not the same for environmentalists. They say April 2006 proved to be the warmest on record for the United States. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the average...
After Kansas successfully got hold of infamous criminals by creative usage of outdoor hoardings and billboards the state of Mississippi intends to showcase the names and images of sex offenders (especially who makes minors their victims) along local...
Buying water worth $190,000! This is what the oil-and-gas town of 6,000, Ulysses is looking into in recent times. The vast underground pool that feeds faucets across the Great Plains, the Ogallala aquifer, is running low. This has forced farmers and...
‘Nature alone cannot explain life’s complexity.’ Darwin’s theory of evolution has always kicked up discussions and debates on such grounds, in the classrooms. The Kansas Board of Education that had taken a strong stand has adopted new science...
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In this March 20, 2008, file photo, Kansas coach Bill Self directs his team against Portland State during an NCAA Midwest Regional basketball game in Omaha, Neb. Self, who guided the Jayhawks to their first NCAA championship in 20 years, signed a...
