Dave Barry's Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Police are looking for a woman who used what's believed to have been hairspray as a weapon in a botched purse-snatching in a Wal-Mart parking lot. (Thanks to Cynthia Cunningham)
Slog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The assholes at Westboro Baptist Church plan to picket a showing of The Laramie Project —a play about the fatal gay-bashing of Matthew Shepard—tomorrow night in Vancouver, Washington. While Westboro typically dispatches only a few people from its home in Topeka, Kansas to picket a veteran’s funeral and insight hatred against gays, a much larger group of 75 locals are planning a counter protest...
Nick Sloan's Official Web Site (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kansas, along with 48 other states, receive F's for failing to provide "affordable education" to its residents. From The Topeka Capital Journal : The grades were part of the "Measuring UP 2008" study prepared by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, based in San Jose, Calif. The measurement used in the study to indicate affordability is the percentage of family income needed...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOPEKA, KS (MARKET WIRE) Prairie Wind Transmission LLC today announced that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has unanimously approved its request for key rate components in its proposal to build a 230-mile, 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission line extending from the Wichita area west to the Dodge City area and south-southwest to the Kansas-Oklahoma border from Medicine Lodge. Prairie...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOPEKA | The Kansas Supreme Court says it will rule Friday on an abortion clinic’s attempt to force a prosecutor to return patients’ medical records that have become key evidence for criminal charges against it.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
TOPEKA | The Kansas attorney general's office is asking a federal court to dismiss Sunflower Electric Power Corp.'s lawsuit against the state for denying an air quality permit it needs to build two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas.
EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading family footwear retailer, Payless ShoeSource, announced today that 630 nonprofit partners located in small towns, mid-size and large cities an.. - Read more
An Unofficial Coast Guard Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Coast Guard Originally uploaded by jenkinson2455 Reservists: check out this new informative workshop sponsored by the Personnel Service Center (Topeka). See this official blog post for the straight scoop.
BCBS.com: General Headlines (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation donated a total of $226,493.74 this fall to United Way campaigns in Topeka, Salina, Wichita and Hutchinson.
Market Wire - Earnings Reports (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
TOPEKA, KS (MARKET WIRE) Collective Brands, Inc. (NYSE: PSS) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended November 1, 2008. Third quarter 2008 net earnings were $47.5 million, or $0.75 per diluted share, compared to third quarter 2007 net earnings of $25.5 million, or $0.39 per diluted share. Excluding litigation items in 2008(1) and purchase accounting inventory step-up in 2007(2),...
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A federal judge in Kansas has issued a stay in the scheduled execution of an Army soldier convicted of murders and rapes in the 1980s.
Kansan.com stories: News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... just so proud of the history and culture that KU has provided the state of Kansas.”Wolgast, a Topeka native, last used an athletic team on the ornament in 2003, when Kansas State football was honored for playing in 10 consecutive bowl games. But after Mario Chalmers’ three pointer sent the 2008 National Championship game into overtime and the Jayhawks defeated Memphis 75-68, she said it...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
TOPEKA | Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley won re-election to his leadership job after a challenge failed to emerge Monday.
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
TOPEKA | Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley won re-election to his leadership job after a challenge failed to emerge Monday.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Topeka police are looking for a woman who used what's believed to have been hairspray as a weapon in a botched purse-snatching in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
