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Teacher-poet Taylor Mali speaks to Heights students via Skype

Feb 8, 2012 3:32 pm

Before a group of Heights High School students met poet Taylor Mali via video conference on Tuesday, they watched some of his spoken-word performances:I’m not your mother, I’m not ...

State to crack down on ‘gray’ gambling machines

Feb 8, 2012 12:36 am

You don’t have to visit the Kansas Star Casino to play video machines with colorful spinning reels. You can find machines that look and act very much like slot machines all over Wichita &am...

Wichita City Council approves plan to get rid of Douglas bottleneck

Feb 7, 2012 11:49 pm

The Wichita City Council has approved a traffic plan for Douglas that calls for the eventual elimination of a bottleneck that narrows the street to one lane eastbound for the block in front of Eaton P...

New Wichita school boundary plan scales back some changes

Feb 7, 2012 7:06 pm

A new attendance boundary plan presented to Wichita school board members Monday would close four elementary schools, relocate Northeast Magnet High School and keep most high school assignments the sam...

Westar, KCC staff settle on $50 million rate increase

Feb 7, 2012 1:20 pm

Westar has reached a settlement with the Kansas Corporation Commission staff to raise rates by $50 million statewide, an increase a consumer advocacy group vowed to fight.The Citizens’ Utilit...

This could be the year for eggs in Twin Lakes eagles’ nest

Feb 7, 2012 12:56 pm

Love waits.He’s doting, watchful, attending to her needs and whims.She’s noncommittal, perhaps not quite sure this thing they’ve got going on is working.Read more

Kansas GOP preparing for March 10 caucus

Feb 7, 2012 4:19 am

Kansas Republicans will gather across the state on March 10 to have their say on who will carry their banner into battle against President Obama in the November election. In Sedgwick County, the party...

Wichita police sergeant featured in History Channel’s ‘Top Shot’

Feb 6, 2012 9:30 pm

Colin Gallagher is sworn to secrecy.He spent weeks in a northern California desert last summer as a contestant on Season 4 of the History Channel program “Top Shot,” which pits top m...

Sex-sting charges against Wichita man are dismissed

Feb 6, 2012 6:57 pm

Charges against a Wichita man have been dismissed after he was arrested last year in what authorities described as an underage-sex sting.Reggie Shepard, 35 at the time authorities arrested him in Oct...

‘It’s a lot,’ Gov. Sam Brownback says of 2012 agenda

Feb 6, 2012 5:12 pm

Gov. Sam Brownback roared up to the Statehouse last week on his Big Dog Motorcycle.“A real sweet machine,” Brownback said of his Wichita-made bike.It was a grand entrance for the...

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Feb 8, 2012 2:00 pm

Political activist redefines feminism

Feb 8, 2012 4:45 am

In the fall of 1971, Angela Davis received a letter from the leaders of a rally for womens reproductive rights. The leaders asked her if she would write a statement about abortion. Her words would be...

Westar complies with Clean Air Act standards

Feb 8, 2012 4:32 am

The mercury and air-toxic standards, put into action by the Environmental Protection Agency last month, is the most significant piece of environmental legislation approved by the Obama administratio...

Recreation center offers trial cycling classes

Feb 8, 2012 2:43 am

KU Fit is ready to ride. The fitness program introduced its first-ever cycling classes to students Tuesday evening at the Ambler Recreation Center. The event allowed students to try out three hour-lo...

KU engineers, chemists collaborate to advance microscope technology

Feb 8, 2012 1:07 am

The Universitys electrical engineering and chemistry departments, two different disciplines within academia, are collaborating to develop new microscope technology. The project hopes to advance techno...

The life of a debater

Feb 8, 2012 12:40 am

Gasping breaths are the only punctuation in the rapid-fire stream of Mark Wilkins carefully researched words. Wilkins, a senior from Topeka, is currently part of the 15th-best debate duo in the natio...

Entertainment puzzle answers for Feb. 7

Feb 7, 2012 2:00 pm

Student Senate candidates plan months in advance

Feb 7, 2012 4:33 am

Campaigning for Student Senate elections doesnt just include chalking on Wescoe Beach or handing out fliers. Preparing for elections is a process that begins months in advance. Candidates have the op...

New lights on Mt. Oread make path safer at night

Feb 7, 2012 3:34 am

New, vintage-style lights sit along the concrete sidewalk on the north side of 12th street. The path runs down Mt. Oread to South Park on Massachusetts Street, where it turns north toward downtown. T...

Prominent civil rights activist will speak on gender equality

Feb 6, 2012 10:37 pm

Political activist Angela Davis will speak to students about her fight for gender equality in Budig Hall Tuesday night. Davis was a big name in gender and racial equality during the Civil Rights move...

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Concealed carry on campuses approved by committee

Feb 8, 2012 6:05 pm

House Bill 2353 is now headed to the full House for consideration with a recommendation for approval from the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.

Kansas teachers to deliver pension petition

Feb 8, 2012 4:56 pm

A group of Johnson County teachers is heading to the Kansas Statehouse to deliver signatures they have gathered in protest of plans to change the state employee retirement system.

Statehouse Live: Committee approves new voter registration requirements

Feb 8, 2012 4:23 pm

Republicans on the House Elections Committee pushed the bill, sought by Secretary of State Kris Kobach, to the full House for consideration, while Democrats opposed it.

Town Talk: Wind turbine and cars in the median proposed for Lawrence Auto Plaza; home show set for this weekend; neighbors want new downtown study as result of Ninth and N.H. hotel/apartment plans

Feb 8, 2012 2:38 pm

News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.

Woman transported to hospital after motorcycle accident

Feb 8, 2012 6:51 am

A motorcycle driver was transported to a Topeka hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening after her motorcycle left the road as she was traveling north on Wellman Road in Jeffer...

Dow approaches 13,000, and maybe a record to come

Feb 8, 2012 6:48 am

It was just last summer that the Dow Jones industrial average shed 2,000 points in three terrifying weeks. Investors had a host of things to worry about, including the possibility of another recession...

California same-sex marriage ban struck down

Feb 8, 2012 6:41 am

Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled Californias ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to lessen the status...

City allows fake grass at apartments

Feb 8, 2012 6:35 am

The grass will always be greener on the other side of at least one Lawrence fence. Lawrence city commissioners went against a staff recommendation and agreed on Tuesday to grandfather in more than 20...

More offenders may be required to register under proposed amendments to act

Feb 8, 2012 6:35 am

More sexual, violent and drug offenders will likely be required to register with the state under the current version of amendments to the Kansas Offender Registration Act.

Diamond dropped in kettle sells for $6,325 on eBay

Feb 8, 2012 6:33 am

Having a special, albeit largely mysterious, story seems to have paid off in the case of a diamond discovered in a Shawnee Salvation Army kettle.