Basehor ? You never know what the "Digging Divas" will turn up.For Judy Ward of Tonganoxie, it was that her great-great-great-greatgrandfather was accused of stealing $30 and was dishonorably discharged from the Union army during the Civil War. Ward is among the many women to join one of the ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Supreme Court handed down a mixed ruling today in a school finance lawsuit, ordering the Legislature to restore certain kinds of funding in the state education budget, but sidestepping the larger question of whether base per pupil funding for K-12 education is adequate.The ...
To the editor:I am writing this letter so that the nicest man in the world might read it.I'm sorry I didn't get his name, but he did the best thing for me. I was out shoveling soon from my driveway when he came down the street on a tractor with a scoop. When he got to my driveway and saw me he ...
Basehor ? A car fire Sunday at about 12:53 p.m. forced a brief closure of the westbound lanes of State Avenue while emergency crews responded to put out the flames.According to Fairmount Township Fire Chief Charles Magaha, the fire started under the dashboard of a Dodge 2500 four-door pickup ...
The Kansas congressional delegation split evenly this week on a federal spending bill that includes $404 million for construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to be built at Kansas State University.That money was part of a $1.1 trillion appropriations bill to fund federal ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback compared past "Summer of Mercy" anti-abortion protests in Wichita to the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery in a major speech Wednesday night.The Republican governor, who opposes abortion, included the reference to the 1991 and 2001 ...
Do you feel like your life is out of balance, out of control? New Year’s resolutions often include goals that relate to a healthy lifestyle — quit smoking, lose weight or exercise more. If you feel as though your lifestyle habits are running you down and negatively affecting your health, ...
Whenever a season changes or a big snow falls, I can count on readers to send in their photos of the local sights.When a new school year gets under way, parents snap those first-day photos and email them my way, per a simple note on Facebook and Twitter asking for readers to share their ...
It was about two years ago that Cheryl Hanback, Keyta Kelly and I headed to Newton for the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s Big Rural Brainstorm.Folks from across the state gathered for a weekend of idea sharing — what worked for our communities, what didn’t and what we’d like to see our ...
The new year always begins with ambitious resolutions. Despite lofty personal goals for 2014, the truth is most people fall short of achieving them. According to the Journal of Clinical Psychology, about 54 percent of people fail to maintain their resolutions at the six-month mark of the new ...
