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| Salina Business Goes Up in Flames A long-time Salina business, Anderson's Leather Shop, caught fire Wednesday afternoon and was completely destroyed. Businesses surrounding the shop reported minor damage and should re-open fairly quickly. |
| Guard Soldiers Will Be Home for Memorial Day 160 Kansas National Guard soldiers are on their way home in time to spend memorial weekend with their family and friends. Friday they will be welcomed home in Lee Arena on the Washburn University campus around noon. |
| Topeka Gas Prices Soar (& Sore) With the Memorial Day weekend sneaking up on us, travelers are having to prepare their pocketbooks for high gas prices. It isn't getting any better for drivers, and they're not happy. |
| Community Blood Center to Host Media Challenge You've got a chance to save lives and help 13 News out in the process! Community Blood Center is holding a media challenge blood drive next Tuesday. |
| KC GM Workers Approve Deal, Head back to Work In voting Wednesday, UAW members at the Fairfax assembly plant overwhelmingly approved a new contract with GM. The vote ends a three-week old strike at the plant that makes the Chevy Malibu and Saturn Aura. |
| Kansas Community College Aims to Lead in Energy A Kansas community college is taking steps to position the state as a wind energy leader. The department of commerce awarded Cloud County Community College $155 thousand dollars to expand the wind energy technology program. |
| Hit and Run Driver Has First Court Appearance The suspected hit-and-run driver whose truck killed two highway workers last fall is in Douglas County to face murder charges. Ramona Morgan's first court appearance on two counts of reckless second degree murder was Wednesday. |
| KDOT Wants You to Remember 511 As you plan your trip this memorial weekend, remember the Kansas Department of Transportation's 511 advanced traveler information system. |
| Last Surviving Brown v. Board Plaintiff Dies Zelma Henderson died Tuesday on the same day the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed Sumner School on the list of most endangered historic places in America. |
| United Way Campaign Chair Tours Agencies 2008 volunteer campaign chairman, Scott Griffith, toured several United Way funded agencies to meet the individuals benefiting from the programs. |
| McCain to Host Possible Veeps at Ariz. Home The Memorial Day guest list at Sen. John McCain's Arizona home runs to at least three Republicans mentioned as vice presidential running mates, but a top aide said Wednesday that vetting possible veeps is not on the agenda. |
| Boston Contemplates Life After Ted Kennedy After the Boston Red Sox's 86-year span without a World Series championship, perhaps the most familiar streak in Massachusetts is the half-century that a Kennedy has represented the state in the U.S. Senate. |
| Governor Says Alaska Will Challenge Polar Bear Listing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says the state will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. |
| Mexican Military Takes Over Town's Police Force Villa Ahumada in Mexico was taken over my the military because the police force was driven out of town by drug gangs. Even the mayor has fled the city. |
| Friends Quit Smoking? You Probably Will Too The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse, friend, co-worker or sibling did. |
| Yoko Ono Tries to Block Use of `Imagine' in Film "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," which opened on U.S. screens in April and is set for release in Canada on June 6 and on DVD in October, presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design, the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone. |
| Time Warner to Reap $9.25 Billion in Cable Spinoff Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it would formally split off its cable TV business, giving the media conglomerate a $9.25 billion windfall and allowing it to focus on cable network, entertainment and publishing operations. |
| Nebraska boy, 11, wins National Geographic Bee Akshay Rajagopal's correct answer capped a two-day event in which he got every question right. As a sixth-grader at Lux Middle School in Lincoln, Neb., he has won a $25,000 scholarship. |
| Groups Try to Stop Circus From Chaining Elephants A coalition of animal welfare groups says it has evidence that Ringling Bros. circus elephants are sometimes chained for days at a time, and the groups asked a judge Wednesday to halt the practice while a lawsuit comes to trial. |
| Pump Prices Creep Up As Oil Records Fall More gas and oil records fell Monday as retail fuel prices struck new highs and crude settled above $127 for the first time, tightening the squeeze on drivers planning holiday road trips next weekend. |
| NOAA Expects Slightly Below Average Central Pacific Hurricane Season NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu expects three to four tropical cyclones in the central Pacific basin in 2008, a slightly below average season. |
| 8 Pandas from China Earthquake Zone Go to Beijing Eight pandas from a Chinese reserve severely shaken by last week's earthquake are expected to arrive in the capital later this week to go on display for the Olympics, a Beijing Zoo spokesman said Wednesday. |
| 100 Explosions Recorded on the Moon Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times. |
| Death Toll in Philippine Storm Up to 37 The Philippine disaster agency says the death toll from a tropical storm that battered the northern Philippines over the weekend has risen from 12 to 37. |
| Critics: Polar Bear Plan Must Fight Global Warming Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials' refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act. |
| Planning a Trip to the Sun Its heat powers the solar system. Its light makes life on Earth possible. Its gravitational pull keeps planets in orbit around it. The sun is, in every sense of the word, a superstar. But despite its familiarity, there is a lot we don't know about it. |
| Wednesday Weatherschool Question Satellite imagery confirms that the North American winter of 1999-2000 brought: |
| More Missing Cosmic Matter Found After an extensive search, astronomers say they have definitely found half of the universe's missing normal matter in the spaces between galaxies. |
| Report: Quake Survivor Freed After 8 Days Trapped Woman Survived By Drinking Rainwater; China: 40,000 Dead, 5 Million Homeless |
| Satellite Data to Help NOAA Track Global Sea Level At a press briefing today, Dr. Laury Miller, chief of NOAA’s Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, said NOAA will use data from the Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) to extend a 15-year record from two earlier altimeter missions that currently show sea level is rising at a rate of 3.2 mm/year -- nearly twice as fast as the previous 100 years. “This rate, if it continues unchanged over the coming decades, will have a large impact on coastal regions, in terms of erosion and flooding,” said Miller. |
| Myanmar Shuns Aid from US Warships; UN Urges More Relief U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Myanmar to focus on saving lives, not on politics, after the military government on Wednesday shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone survivors. |
| In `Idol' bout, 'Archie' Declared Knockout Winner Tonight we'll find out which David will walk away with the American Idol title. Will it be Archuleta or Kansas City's Cook? |
| Carbondale Twin Teachers Retire Three veteran teachers at Carbondale Grade School will retire after the last day of school Wednesday. |
| China: 40,000 Dead, 5 Million Homeless After Quake China said it was struggling to find shelter for many of the 5 million people whose homes were destroyed in last week's earthquake, while the confirmed death toll rose Tuesday to more than 40,000. |
| Myanmar Mourns for 78,000 Cyclone Victims Myanmar began three days of mourning for some 78,000 cyclone victims Tuesday, after its ruling junta appeared to relent to foreign pressure to allow more outside help for its storm survivors. |
| Kansas City's David Cook is American Idol! The Blue Springs, Missouri bartender is on his way to fame after America votes Cook the new "Idol." |
| WRHS Takes a stand against graffiti Faculty, staff, and students at WRHS are stepping up to help clean up the community. |
| Driver Checklane leads to an Arrest The Kansas Highway Patrol ran a check lane on Highway 40 from 9am-11am this morning. This effort is part of the statewide "Click it or Ticket" program. |
| Students Learn About Seaman Middle School Students got together Tuesday from both schools at Northern Hills for a good time and a chance to learn a little more about their new school. |
| Sumner School Makes Endangered List The former Sumner Elementary School building at 4th and Western was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The school was among those at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board desegregation case. |
| Kansas Native Wins 2008 Abel Math Prize in Norway Ottawa, Kansas native John Griggs Thompson wins $1.2 million Abel prize for mathematics. He shares the award with Paris teacher Jacques Tits. They were selected for their work with modern group theory, which can solve every day challenges like the Rubik's Cube. |
| Former Regent to Lead Wefald Search Committee Nelson Galle of Manhattan will serve as chairperson of the committee searching for a new president for Kansas State University. Current KSU head Jon Wefald announced last week that he'll retire after the 2008-2009 academic year. |
| Dog Stock Organizer Charged with Writing Bad Checks The organizer of a benefit concert has been charged with writing bad checks to cover the event. 52-year-old Randall Long organized Dog Stock 2007. Long allegedly wrote more than $48,000 worth of bad checks to 19 separate victims. |
| 85-Year-Old Woman Found Dead in Retirement Home In Reno County, a task force has been formed to investigate whether an elderly murder is connected to cases in which older women have been sexually assaulted. |
| Hunting Accident Leaves Alma Man Dead A hunting accident has claimed the life of an Alma man. The Wabaunsee County Sheriff's Office says it happened 6:30 Sunday morning in the area of Phillips Creek Road and Wabaunsee Road near Alma. |
| Hill's Pet Nutrition Pledges to Save One Million Pets A Topeka-based company is trying to make a difference by giving cats and dogs in shelters a second chance. The group concentrated their efforts in Topeka on Wednesday. |
| Young Girl Kicked in Head by Horse Morris County Sheriff Scott Coover tells 13 News a five year old Wilsey, Kan. girl was taken to the hospital after being kicked in the head by a horse at her family's home Tuesday evening. |
| Merck Agrees to $58M Settlement Over Vioxx Ad Claims Kansas and 30 other states will share that record breaking settlement Merck is paying as part of a settlement against the company for deceptively promoting Vioxx and downplaying its health risks. |
| Emporia Track Ready For State With returning talent, and a team attitude, Randy Wells Emporia High Spartans are primed for a podium spot in the State 5A Boys Track and Field Meet. |
| Centennial League Trio Set to Represent Topeka in State Softball Tournaments Seaman, Shawnee Heights and Washburn Rural will head to State softball tournaments over the weekend. |
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