Topeka ? The Kansas Hospital Association has hired a former Republican cabinet secretary to develop a plan for expanding Medicaid that the group hopes Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-led Kansas Legislature can support.According to a report by the KHI News Service, the hospital association has ...
Topeka ? A Kansas man was arrested Friday on charges that he planned to set off a car bomb at the Wichita airport in an attack intended to support al-Qaida, authorities said.Terry Lee Loewen, a 58-year-old avionics technician who worked at the airport, was arrested before dawn as tried to enter ...
Topeka ? Public schools will have less money per student than the Legislature intended when making the recent state budget, unless Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators provide more money when the 2014 legislative session starts next month.That's because the statewide property tax has produced ...
On Friday evening the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office will conduct a "saturation patrol" in southern Leavenworth County in an effort to reduce the number of intoxicated drivers.The patrol will put additional officers on the roadways of Leavenworth County at a time of year when, the ...
Three Leavenworth County men suspected in several burglaries around the Kansas City metro area were arrested last week on drug charges after they allegedly were found with more than a pound of methamphetamines.Randall Bell, 46, and Joseph Bittner, 34, of Edwardsville, and Matthew W. Wright, ...
Kansas City, Mo. ? The death of a Missouri man in an Arrowhead Stadium parking lot during Kansas City’s game this weekend was ruled a homicide Wednesday, but police said it could still take weeks before they know what killed him.Kyle Van Winkle, 30, of Smithville, was unconscious on the ...
Community National Bank announced this week the hiring of Steven Ketteler as Branch President in Basehor. Ketteler has over 20 years of experience in commercial banking with a BS degree from the University of Nebraska with an emphasis in finance. He attended the Colorado Graduate School of ...
Topeka ? A new proposal by Gov. Sam Brownback's administration to try to improve reading proficiency among grade-school students is under fire from children's advocates because of the way it is funded.The plan would use funds from a program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or ...
Three-year-old Mason Lake stood a couple paces in front of his family, waving his small American flag left to right, so close to the Veterans Day Parade in Leavenworth that one of the active-duty soldiers marching in front of him could’ve reached down to pat him on the head.Lake, of Lansing, ...
Kansas remained among the highest scoring states in the nation in 2013 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP exam, a test that's sometimes called “the nation's report card.”Although the average scores in reading and math among students in the fourth and eighth grades ...
