Ethics panel recommended reprimand for Rep. Rangel
A House investigator says the panel handling Rep. Charlie Rangel's ethics case has recommended a reprimand by the full House -but that decision could be months away. Rep. Gene Green, who's on the s |
Sen. Kerry says he mishandled furor over yacht
Sen. John Kerry said he always intended to pay taxes in Massachusetts on his $7 million yacht but conceded he mishandled the public furor over his decision to dock the vessel in tax-free Rhode Island. |
State takes applications for temporary insurance
The state is taking applications for a temporary insurance program that would offer coverage to those with pre-existing medical conditions who have not been able to find other insurance for six months |
Death toll from floods in Pakistan reaches 430
The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 430 on Friday, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. Pakistani TV showed striking images of |
Forest fires ravage Russian villages; 125 dead
Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin consoled surv |
Syria, Saudi Arabia try to tamp down fears
The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia launched an unprecedented effort Friday to defuse fears of violence over upcoming indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Ha |
White House: Don't post more secret war papers
The White House is imploring the website WikiLeaks not to post any more classified documents about the Afghanistan war, saying U.S.
national security and Afghan lives are at risk. Press secreta |
Arab League backs Palestinian president
CAIRO - Arab nations on Thursday backed the Palestinian president's refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy U.S. pressure. The U.S. and the Europeans have been pushing |
Fired ag official to sue blogger
SAN DIEGO - Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. The |
2nd missing sailor's body found in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials s |
Plan calls for bike paths in SW part of city
lthompson@themercury.com City staff presented extensive future plans for bike and pedestrian paths in southwest Manhattan at Wednesday afternoon's bike advisory committee meeting. The presentat |
Demonstrations kick off in Arizona
PHOENIX - Opponents of Arizona's hardline stance on illegal immigration launched a small religious procession from the state capitol before dawn Thursday, the first of a series of demonstrations for t |
Obama makes appearance on daytime TV's `The View'
NEW YORK - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a ''phony controversy'' generated by the media. He said |
Sen. Pyle rails against Rep. Jenkins' spending
State Sen. Dennis Pyle, who is challenging incumbent Second District Rep. Lynn Jenkins in next week's Republican primary, blasted Jenkins Wednesday for what he said was wasteful spending on junk mail |
152 presumed dead in Pakistani plane crash
A Pakistani
passenger plane crashed into the hills that flank Islamabad on Wednesday with 152 people on board, including two Americans, officials and witnesses said.
Apparently no one survived.
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Demand for big-ticket items falls in June
Orders to
U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods fell in June as demand for commercial aircraft plummeted. But businesses increased spending on capital goods for a second straight month, a |
hina floods test massive hree Gorges Dam
-Record-high
water levels put the capacity of China's massive Three Gorges Dam to the test Wednesday after heavy rains raged on across the country, compounding flooding problems that have left more |
Franklin, Rice make music to benefit urban children
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doleezza Rice is no stranger to the whims of royalty. So when the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, decided the two should get together to play a song or two for charity, it was decreed. < |
Lying man guilty of rape by deception in Israel
Lying for sex.
It happens all the time. Yet a married Palestinian man has been ordered jailed for 18 months for having sex with an Israeli woman after giving her the impression he too was Jewish |
GOP primary is state's big political show
It figures to be
another tough year for Kansas Democrats. The seasons' hottest political show closes Aug. 3, when Republican voters decide whether U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran or Todd Tiahrt is their no |
Cancer Center names new deputy director
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University of Kansas Cancer Center has named a prominent medical researcher from Georgia as its deputy director.
Dr. Kapil Bhalla plans to join the center's staff Aug. 1. He'll also serve as |
Governor hopeful amasses nearly $1.2M
-Republican U.S.
Sen. Sam Brownback has stockpiled nearly $1.2 million for a fall campaign for Kansas governor, almost 10 times as much as the presumed Democratic nominee, according to campaign fina |
Guns raised as issue in Senate race
-Kansas Rep.
Todd Tiahrt criticized his main rival in the U.S. Senate race Monday over decade-old votes on gun rights issues and touted an endorsement from a state group affiliated with the National |
Court rules on scope of migratory bird act
-A federal
appeals court decision over dead birds found in Kansas oil field equipment has defined the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, affirming that violators do not need to intentionally ki |
Ex-DA Kline sued by fired prosecutor
-A lawyer for a
former northeast Kansas district attorney denied Monday that a senior prosecutor who claimed sex discrimination in a lawsuit over her firing was dismissed for improper reasons. |
Cattleman sentenced in fraud case
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northeast Kansas cattleman has been ordered to spend six months in prison and pay $10 million in restitution for a fraud involving cattle. U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch announced Monday that 70y |
Shooting death ruled an accident
-Authorities
in central Kansas believe the shooting death of a 63-year-old man was an accident. The victim is identified as Walter E. Hackley. He was shot and killed Sunday night. Great Bend |
Heat kills 2,620 cattle in three days
-State offi
cials say intense heat that baked most of Kansas killed more than 2,600 cattle in feedlots during three days in July. The Kansas Department of
Health and Environment said Monday tha |
Timely rains help Kansas crops
-The Kansas
Agricultural Statistics Service credits adequate moisture supplies, timely rain and irrigation for helping crops withstand a heat wave. The agency said in its weekly crop update Mond |
Police investigate shooting at playground
-Two suspects are
in custody as police investigate the shooting death of a teenager at a playground. Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield said 17year-old Derek Dean Rico was shot Sunday e |
Lottery results
-These Kansas lot
teries were drawn Monday: Daily Pick 3 4-9-5 Super Kansas Cash 01-03-14-21-27, Cash Ball: 18 Estimated jackpot: $330,000
2 By 2 Red Balls: 19-23, White Balls: 4-24 Mega M |
Volunteers needed to mark military road in Pott Co.
Don Combs and Doug Tippin - self-described "rut nuts" - are looking for volunteers to mark the Pottawatomie County portion of the Fort Leavenworth-Fort Riley Military Road. The Manhattan residents |
New trial ordered for polygamist
The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the convictions of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial. Jeffs, 54, was convicted by a southern Utah jury in 2007 of two counts of first |
Attorney: Government didn't prove case
An attorney for Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday that the impeached governor didn't testify at his corruption trial because the government did not prove its case against him. Sam Adam Jr. told jurors i |
Retired nurse helps kids tidy up their neighborhood
From there, Edwards said the kids decided they wanted to make the cleanup a regular outing, and chose how often to go (once a month) and for how long (30 to 45 minutes at a time). They even chose the |
Bomb kills 6 at Iraq news station
A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up in front of the Baghdad office of a popular Arabic news station Monday, killing six people and burying a lawmaker alive under the rubble of his colla |
Transplant patient displays new face
A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor. I d e n |
Prosecutors probe Love Parade deaths
German prosecutors are investigating whether negligent manslaughter was involved in the deaths of 19 people killed in a crush at the Love Parade techno festival. But amid a clamor of questions abou |
New home sales up, but purchases remain low
Sales of new homes jumped last month, but it was the secondweakest month on record. The lackluster economy has made potential buyers skittish about shopping for homes. New home sales rose nearly 24 |
Salina couple lives happily without air conditioner
-Cattle have been
dying as humid winds have swept through the grasslands of the southern Plains, pushing the heat index to more than 105 degrees on days of unbroken, bone-baking sunshine. Stan C |
18 killed in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade
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stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 18 people dead and 80 injured at the famed Love Parade festival in western Germany on Saturday. Other revelers initially kept part |
Canadian jet crashes during air show practice
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Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for a weekend international air show in Alberta, but the pilot was able to eject from the plummeting plane be |
Zoo places projects on hold
Unrealistic cost estimates and substandard design planning have forced the Topeka Zoo to modify some new exhibits and place several planned exhibits on hold in order to meet internal standards and fed |
F-16 lands safely after emergency in flight
The Colorado Air National Guard says an F-16 fighter jet landed safel y a f t e r a n u n s p e c i f i e d emergency during a training f l i g h t o v e r C o l o r a d o a n d Kansas. The Guard |
AG highlighting new child porn law
Kansas Attorney General Steve Six is working with a national group to publicize a new state law aimed at victims of child pornography. The law was approved by the 2010 Legislature and paves the way |
`In Cold Blood' prosecutor pens Wild West musical
- Fifty years after prosecuting one of the biggest murder trials in Kansas history, Duane West has penned a musical he hopes will someday play on Broadway. West has titled the musical ''Dream Your |
Man, woman found dead in apartment
- Police in northeast Kansas say they're not seeking any suspects in the deaths of a man and woman in a Johnson County apartment. The bodies were found around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. A co-worker went |
Two die in medical helicopter crash
A medical helicopter on its way to pick up a patient crashed in a secluded field in central Oklahoma late Thursday, killing the pilot and one of the two nurses on board, authorities said. The heli |
Feds seek `pill mill' assets in Mexico
Federal prosecutors are seeking information on the foreign assets of a Kansas doctor and his wife convicted of running a so-called pill mill. Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, were found |
Authorities check homes of DUI offenders
A law enforcement initiative is targeting the homes of drunken driving offenders in the Wichita area to verify compliance with conditions of probation. Officers from the Sedgwick County Sheriff's |
Texan gets prison
- The U.S. attorney's office in Kansas says a Texas man caught with 436,000 Ecstasy pills will spend nine years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren sentenced 21-year-old Edgar Juare |
Governor says state has agreement with firm
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson says the state has an agreement with Bombardier Aerospace to preserve jobs in Wichita for making its Learjet aircraft. Parkinson's office announced Thursday the state an |
State gets three
Three groups have submitted applications to develop a state-owned casino in south-central Kansas. The Kansas Lottery says it received the applications for the Sumner County casino south of Wichita |
Tiahrt, Moran trade barbs over campaign tactics
Two Kansas congressmen seeking the Republican nomination for Sam Brownback's Senate seat are accusing one another of negative campaigning in a race that seems to get nastier by the day. The latest |
Obama says forced
ouster was wrong
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has ordered a more patient, deliberative style of governance from his aides and Cabinet members in the wake of a convulsive week surrounding the ouster of Agricultu |
Ford posts profit
Ford
Motor Co. posted a strong second-quarter profit Friday but trimmed its U.S. sales forecast and predicted weaker results in the second half as the economy slowly recovers. The automaker sur |
Teen suspected in Staten Island killings, house fire
Shaquawna Meaders had spent ''a nice night'' at her friend's apartment as the friend's skinny 14-yearold son made them laugh and his young siblings prepared for a trip to Coney Island. Then on Thur |
Storm closes airport, opens big sink hole
Stranded travelers weary from an overnight stay in a Milwaukee airport were hoping to be allowed to fly out Friday after powerful overnight storms pounded southeastern Wisconsin, halting flights and c |
India unveils $35 tablet computer
It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. If the gover |
