WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack faced questions on how his agency is doling out emergency pandemic aid and fostering collaboration with historically Black colleges during a Thursday hearing before the House Agriculture Committee.
January is, on average, the coldest month of the year. And that means one thing.
TOPEKA — In her 13 years working as a corrections officer, Jennifer Wyman has fielded threats to herself and her family, sat with other officers in the emergency room and helped to rehabilitate inmates, all while working three other jobs because of insufficient pay.
Dear Readers, I was raised to accept Kansas weather changes unconditionally. “If you don’t like it, wait five minutes” was the response to any whimper of being hot or cold.
RUSH COUNTY– A 61-year-old man from La Crosse, Kan., was found dead in his home Friday morning and authorities are investigating the death as a homicide. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and Rush County Sheriff ’s Office are investigating the death of a male from LaCrosse, Kan.
“I didn’t know he had it in him.” How many times have you heard this statement after someone earned an achievement? When a young Bruce Springsteen attended school as a boy in Freehold, New Jersey, he felt he didn’t fit inside the box. He said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning a couple years ago, “I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time.
This past Saturday, the McPherson High School Scholars Bowl team competed in the St. John’s Invitational Tournament hosted by St. John’s High School in Beloit. 18 teams around the state participated in what serves the Bullpups as the beginning of the final stretch leading up to the Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League championship tournament.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas suspended two fraternities for hazing earlier this month, but officials don’t plan to share their investigation with police.
TOPEKA — The Kansas Chamber wants the Legislature to deploy a big chunk of the state’s budget surplus toward shrinking tax rates and making one-time economic investments while restraining government regulation, electricity costs and court involvement in K-12 funding decisions.
I like machines. Occasionally, usually on the couch, I envision an idyllic future, like the one in The Jetsons, where a robot rolls over to me with a martini. In the timeless classic by Flight of the Concords, the song Robots, set in “the distant future, the year 2000”, it is Man vs. Robot. The song is so good I’m rooting for the robots! And who could forget Short Circuit, the 1986 film starring Steve Guttenberg alongside a delightful robot, Number 5? The picture also gave us the hit single Who’s Johnny, by El Debarge. Okay, fine. Most people forgot that film but I did not! #neverforget!