Blue Rapids News

Paleontologist George Callison, right, and Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey, talk before the dedication of the Ice Age Monument May 19 in Blue Rapids.

The Kansas State Department of Education says it worked with the Midwest Dairy Council to encourage schools to upload videos showing how their schools are active each day.

Kansas geologists say a massive Arctic ice sheet pushed it's way down to northeast Kansas 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, leaving behind distinct pink boulders similar to the two seen here in the new monument to the Ice Ages in Blue Rapids, Kan., in Marshall County.

The name has been released in a fatal Marshall county accident this past weekend.A Robert Studer, 48,A of Beattie died in the accident, which involved a '99 Harley Davidson motorcycle.A Studer was not wearing a helmet.

A Topeka man was sentenced to more than 55 years in prison for killing another man during a crime spree in June 2010.