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The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for 11 counties in southern Kansas, including Wichita and portions of the metropolitan area.

Emergency crews are on the scene of several building fires in downtown Anthony. City Administrator Don Heidrick says that between 12 and 12:30 Wednesday afternoon a truck crashed into a gas meter.

New University of Kansas students and their parents from Barber, Harper, Kingman and Pratt counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, in Kingman.

A federal regulator closed the First National Bank of Anthony Friday evening. The branches of the $156 million bank have reopened as locations of SNB Bank of Kansas .

Here's a definition from today's Slate that finally clarifies the distinction for me -- in an essay on the thought of columnist Henry Fairlie.

An armed robber struck a Spangles employee on the head with a blunt object and stole the money bag she was carrying to her car early Thursday morning, police said.

Jeffrey Simpson Monday, Jun. 15, 2009 07:06PM EDT Y ou knew a federal election was in the wind, or at least that the Harper Conservatives were preparing for the possibility of one, when those full-page newspaper advertisements began.

Severe storms, including several tornadoes hit the state in the last 24 hours. Now, crews are starting to assess the damage left behind.

But he clearly can't take it. This , from, of all people , Harper. Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood unapologetic Tuesday, defended his embattled natural resources minister and dismissed the storm of opposition and public criticism of Lisa Raitt as "cheap politics." [...] "This minister has been working around the clock to make sure we get a ...

Chantal Hebert makes an interesting point in describing the words of Harper natural resources minister as typical of " back-channel conversations... assessing events and their relative place in the larger picture of... a government's work.

A Heritage Trust Fund grant of $90,000 has been announced for the Anthony Theatre restoration project being undertaken by a local citizens' group.

27, 2009 03:47PM EDT T homas Mulcair, the NDP critic, says Finance Minister Jim Flaherty should be sporting a dunce cap.

Confirmed layoffs in this region reached a total of 10,615 at the end of April, a spokesman for the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas said Thursday.

The first time it gave the Harperites an excuse to interfere with Canada's nuclear regulator, and not in a small way.

The Liberals drop their gloves and press the faithful into service, Progressive Conservatives reunite, plus Jane Taber's list of who's hot and who's not JANE TABER May 15, 2009 at 7:12 PM EDT OTTAWA - The Ignatieff Liberals are upping the ante, sniffing around for a campaign plane, making employment insurance the hot issue and sending letters ...

"Is that Michael Ignatieff on the cover of the British GQ, the upscale version of its more gamy American counterpart?" That was the question that leaped unbidden to my lips after viewing the photo on the front page of Thursday's Globe and Mail.

After hearing of the coming blitzkrieg of attack ads against him, the word on Parliament Hill yesterday was that Michael Ignatieff will hit back hard against Stephen Harper.

First National Bank of Anthony's branch at 10111 W. 21st N. in Wichita. The bank is trying to sell two branches in Johnson County to raise additional capital.

Stay corrupt. The Harper party has a new way of counting ballots . Federal Conservative party president Don Plett rejects criticism that the new system used to determine whether sitting MPs should face a nomination challenge was undemocratic.

Successful leadership isn't complicated. It's about making people feel good about their prospects and their country.