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Pack patience when traveling for the holidays
Air travel is challenging any time of the year. But holiday travel is especially stressful.
Engineering takes its place in Derby schools
The Derby school district is leading the Wichita area in providing state-of-the-art engineering classes in middle and high schools, and it will lead the nation by being the first to offer the engineering classes at an elementary school.
Brazen burglars strike in College Hill
While a College Hill couple and their two small children slept upstairs early last Sunday, burglars went room to room downstairs.
Jobless rate down to 7.9 percent
The Wichita metro area unemployment rate tumbled to 7.9 percent in October, the Kansas Department of Labor reported, down considerably from the double-digit unemployment rate this summer.
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FlightSafety Promotes Debbie Jones to Manager, Hawker Beechcraft...
FlightSafety International is pleased to announce that Debbie Jones has been promoted to Manager of the company's Hawker Beechcraft Learning Center in Wichita, Kansas.
Synthetic drug a problem for Kansas?
It looks like marijuana and supposedly works like it too. But the herbs are perfectly legal for now.
Hand Sanitizer Versus Soap and Water
CBS News recently reported that Sales of hand sanitizer jumped more than 40% since the H1N1 flu virus began spreading across the country.
For producer, KC Rep's 'Christmas Story' is a dream come true
Gerald Goehring learned long ago how to stretch a dollar. When he blew into New York City a couple of decades ago with a theater degree from Wichita State University, he quickly discovered that his calling card into the world of professional theater would not be his artistic aspirations but his carpentry skills.
Actor Rees explores Shakespeare in 1-man show
Welsh-born actor Roger Rees, a 22-year veteran of England's famed Royal Shakespeare Company, is determined to prove that The Bard was "just a guy like you and me." "He was arguably the most brilliant playwright we have ever been given," Rees says, "but I like to think he would have been comfortable in Levis.
Pianist tips his cap to WSU's Bees
Christopher Taylor, the piano soloist next weekend with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, doesn't have direct connections to Wichita - he never lived here; he didn't study here.
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Starla K. Criser Honored for Accomplishments in Community Relations and in Authorship
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Cafe Offers Poets, Musicians a Stage
Students and other night owls have a new east-side option for grabbing a hot meal, studying or just relaxing with friends.
Fortuna's Jacobs set to sign with D-I Wichita State tonight
Kelsey Jacobs will be one of the premiere players on the Fortuna High girls basketball team as a senior this year.
University of North Texas News Service
Lisa Baronio named Vice President for Advancement, to lead fundraising
DENTON , Texas -- Lisa Birley Baronio has been named University of North Texas vice president for advancement and director of development of the UNT Foundation.
State sponsoring forums on PHS sale
The Kansas Insurance Department will conduct a public forum next month to gather input about the pending sale of Preferred Health Systems Inc.
Stimulus keeps college tuition down
With all state universities raising tuition this year, Kansas college students might have suffered sticker shock.
QinetiQ North America Mission Solutions Group Appoints Senior VP for...
She joins the company from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, where she served as Vice President, Intelligence Engineering Line of Business.
Wichita Grand Opera Prepares To Open "The Mikado"
It was so popular the first time, it's back for more. The Wichita Grand Opera's reviving its production of the Gilbert & Sullivan play "The Mikado." Click to read more about Gilbert and Sullivan But this time around, it won't be exactly the same.
Roller coasters spark student interest
Building roller coasters Monday morning gave Extended Learning Program students from Marion and Butler counties a chance to have fun with science and engineering.
Wichita opera takes on LOOK production
Wichita Grand Opera is getting at look at what Light Opera Oklahoma does with Gilbert & Sullivan.
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