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Vitale expects to top the $10 million mark with his eighth annual celebrity gala in Sarasota, Fla., on Friday night.

New gun and abortion laws that sailed through Republican-controlled state legislatures this year are about to face scrutiny in a less hospitable arena: the courtroom.

Kansas Deputy Attorney General Vic Braden is taking the lead on the prosecution of Kyle T. Flack, the man charged in a quadruple homicide in Franklin County, Franklin County Attorney Stephen Hunting confirmed Friday.

Wolf Creek Generating Station is nuclear power plant near Burlington in east-central Kansas.

An outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes is possible this weekend across portions of the central USA, primarily over the Plains.

Now that the House and Senate Agriculture Committees have passed their versions of the farm bill, it's time to cherry pick all the things people hate about the legislation.

The Great Bend Kansas National Guard armory should escape unscathed the round of federally mandated National Guard furloughs announced Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, said Sharon Watson with the KNG Public Affairs Office.

Republican budget negotiators said they'll consider a move to block any money that would be spent to implement Common Core standards for reading and math or Next Generation Science Standards in Kansas' public schools.

An Army sergeant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of 5 fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

Senate Agriculture Committee member Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, voices his concerns as lawmakers begin mark up on the Farm Bill, officially known as the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

This weekend, when Wes Jackson, founder of the Salina-based Land Institute, addresses graduates at the University of Kansas' 141 Recently, the Land Institute and the Environmental Studies Program at KU founded a partnership intended to encourage research in the development of "perennial polycultures." Participating faculty members in the initiative ... (more)

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said this week the government plans to proceed with federal furloughs as a result of budget shortfalls.

Kansas Medical Center in Andover is planning a roughly 8,000-square-foot expansion, in part to add an MRI facility.

The Kansas Securities Commissioner issued a cease and desist order after learning that at least four Kansas residents had invested a total of $22,000 in an international investment scheme.

Merriam-Webster defines extortion as the " exaction of money or property through intimidation or undue exercise of authority." It's illegal for individuals or corporations to engage in extortion, but some governments are increasingly using forms of extortion to exact higher taxes, make citizens more dependent upon government and ultimately, strip ... (more)

An influential Kansas House member outlined three new proposals Wednesday for overhauling the state's two highest courts.

LYONS A Lyons man was sentenced Wednesday to 17½ years in prison after pleading no contest to charges of rape and aggravated indecent liberties, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.

The highest number of backpacks of food handed out to needy school children was 7,158 during a week in February, said Larry Gunkel, a Food Bank official running the program.

Pilot John Kellogg suffered non-life-threatening injuries when the crop duster he was flying crashed in Cherokee County in southeast Kansas.

Tuesday's open forum lasted longer than an hour and about 20 people shared their views opposing the Common Core initiative.