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| Purple Heart Recipient Spends the Day at the Races As people from all over the country flock to Topeka for the National Hot Rod Association summer nationals, one hometown hero is taking part in the fun. |
| Kingman Police Chief Pleads Guilty, Resigns The chief of police in Kingman resigns after pleading guilty to having a violent altercation with his girlfriend. |
| WIBW Takes Top Associated Press TV Award The Associated Press handed out their 2007 media awards to Missouri and Kansas broadcasters Saturday afternoon, with WIBW-TV taking home the top honor. |
| Car Crash Causes Power Outage Topeka Police report that a man drove into a light pole on the 2900 block of Burlingame around 2AM Saturday. |
| Free E-Waste Recycling Many of us have old electronic devices laying around and today we have found a free way for you to safely dispose of them. |
| Topeka Police Test Potential Recruits The Topeka Police Department is giving two days of physical and written exams to potential recruits. A total of 15 recruits will be chosen when it's over. |
| Army Post Celebrates College Graduates The Fort Riley family is celebrating the graduation of several college students. |
| Wester Energy Offers Stock Sale Westar Energy says it's offering 6 million shares of common stock. The net proceeds will be used to repay short-term debts. |
| KCK Woman Found Guilty of Topeka Stabbing The Shawnee County DA's office says Ray confronted Davidson at a residence on Southwest Polk, then stabbed him in the stomach. |
| High Schoolers "Rush" to Safe, Fun Friday Night Event Answering the complaints of Topeka teens who say there's not enough to do in the town, Topeka Chief of Police's Youth Advisory Council helped set up Summer Rush '08, an event to offer kids a fun, safe environment. |
| Bone drug Zometa helps fight breast cancer spread A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease. |
| iPhone market share at 19 percent in 1Q, IDC says Apple Inc.'s iPhone, a new model of which is widely expected this summer, took 19.2 percent of the U.S. market for "smart" phones in the first quarter of 2008, according to research firm IDC's vendor survey. |
| Hacker changes Phoenix Mars Lander Web site A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site during the night and changed its lead news story. |
| Home at center of 50 Cent lawsuit destroyed by fire A multimillion-dollar home at the center of a bitter dispute between 50 Cent and the mother of his son was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday. |
| Amy Winehouse late for first post-rehab concert Amy Winehouse showed up late for her first concert since leaving rehab, giving an underwhelming performance in front of 90,000 people Friday at a Lisbon music festival. |
| Medal of Honor winner matured to 'natural' soldier Growing up in a small rural town, Ross McGinnis was more apt to get in trouble than on the honor roll. So he enlisted in the Army, and in just under a year found his soul mate, a brotherhood, and even himself. |
| Vote aimed at curbing pot growing in Calif. county Voters here took the state's official permissiveness on marijuana to new heights in 2000, allowing residents to grow up to 25 pot plants for medical, recreational or personal use. |
| After crane collapse, experts call for more tests The towering cranes that build America's skyscrapers are often not properly inspected for wear, fatigue and other potentially dangerous structural problems, several construction safety experts said following a deadly accident in New York. |
| Congresswoman nervous as husband goes to space With her husband in command of space shuttle Discovery and on the verge of launching, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wanted to set the record straight. |
| Students skip slime, stink with virtual dissection Mandates in 14 states, including Virginia and Maryland, that allow biology students to opt out of dissection without jeopardizing their grades are fueling interest in virtual dissection as an alternative tool for teaching anatomy. |
| Storm Prompts Boil Water Advisory for City of Jewell A Thursday night storm destroyed the City of Jewell's water tower, making it possible for contaminants to have entered the water system. People on the Jewell water system should take precautions until KDHE determines the water is safe. |
| Storm Derails Train, Damages Buildings in Nebraska A storm bearing hail and possible tornadoes struck central Nebraska Thursday night, damaging businesses, derailing train cars, tearing down trees and disrupting power to thousands. |
| Tornado Touchdown in Mitchell, Jewell, and Republic Counties: Caught on Tape On Thursday, May 29th WIBW-TV Channel 13 Meteorologists Drew Switzer and Rob Peppers tracked and took footage of a tornado as it ripped through Northern Mitchell County in North-central Kansas. |
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| Rain Hampers Effort to Drain Quake-Created Lake in China Rain grounded helicopters and added urgency to attempts on Thursday to drain an earthquake-created lake that was threatening to flood disaster victims in central China. |
| Mayor: New Orleans Reinventing Itself Historic New Orleans is reinventing itself as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina, with efforts under way to help make this a safer, more vibrant city, Mayor Ray Nagin said in his annual State of the City address. |
| 2008 Could Set Records for Tornado Deaths Death toll from tornadoes in 2008 is already 110; average is 62 for a whole year. 2008 fatalities already highest in a decade, with the year less than half over. Numbers of tornadoes also above average in early months of this year. Deadliest year since organized records began is 1953, with 519 deaths. |
| City Dwellers Produce Less Carbon, Report Suggests Study looked at largest 100 metro areas where two-thirds of people in U.S. live. Smallest carbon footprint was in cities in West, New England. Cities in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana dominated bottom tier of high carbon emitters. About 6.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released into the air annually in the U.S. |
| Robots Could Soon Rove Antarctica Georgia Tech think SnoMotes could add to satellites, sensors in getting data. Researchers hope the robots will ultimately cost around $10,000. Robots envisioned to document changing conditions in world's most remote places. |
| Mars Lander Back Online After Radio Glitch Phoenix Was Incommunicado For A Day, But Mission Resumes With Data Streaming Again |
| Tornado Tears Up Kansas Town A storm traveling up Highway 14 destroyed homes, a water tower, a kennel, a church and businesses in Jewell. It produced a devastating tornado, but thankfully no one was seriously injured. |
| Oil Extends Decline, Prices Below $126 a Barrel Oil prices fell below $126 a barrel Friday in Asia, extending a decline of more than $4 in the previous session as a stronger dollar and falling demand outweighed an unexpected drop in U.S. crude oil stocks. |
| Wall Street Points to Higher Open Ahead of Data Wall Street is pointing to a higher open Friday after strong results from Dell Inc. and ahead of data expected to show personal spending rose in April. |
| Many Consumers Spend Early Rebates on Soaring Cost of Living Many Americans allowed themselves to fantasize about large-screen TVs, European vacations and other luxuries when they learned of the federal rebates they'd be getting this spring and early summer. |
| Family Asks for Help Finding Puppy A Shawnee County family is pleading for anyone with information on their missing puppy to help them find him. He's a purebred yorkie. A reward is being offered. |
| New DVD Releases include `Dirty Harry,' `Semi-Pro' Some old, new and funny films are out on video this week including Clint Eastwood and Will Ferrell. Some TV shows like Weeds and CHiPS are also hitting store shelves. |
| Suicide Bomber Kills 16 in Northwestern Iraq A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a crowd of police recruits in northwestern Iraq, killing at least 16 men and wounding 14 others, an official said. |
| Oil Down Near $130 Ahead of US Inventory Report Oil prices fell Thursday ahead of a report expected to show U.S. inventories of crude and petroleum products grew last week. Prices remained volatile, though, buffeted about by threats against Nigerian oil facilities, worries about falling gasoline demand in the U.S. and a strengthening U.S. dollar. |
| Hillary Supporters Protest Outside Rules Meeting Senator Clinton's backers are demanding the Democratic National Committee count her delegates in the Florida and Michigan primaries. Those delegates were stripped by the party, since the primaries were held too early, against DNC rules. |
| Actor Harvey Korman Dies at 81 The comic actor who added his genius to "The Carol Burnett Show," and rode us to waves of laughter in "Blazing Saddles," has died at age 81. His death is the latest sad note in Hollywood, which has seen the passings of many television and film favorites this week. |
| Kansas Gets High Marks for Children's Health Care A report from the Commonwealth Fund ranks Kansas as having the 10th best children's health system in the country. The report looked at access, quality, costs, potential for healthy lives and equality. |
| Colleagues Honor Late Representative Ted Powers Lawmakers gathered for the ceremonial adjournment of the 2008 session presented a proclamation to the widow of Rep. Ted Powers. Powers died earlier this month following a stroke. Colleagues remembered his warm personality. |
| End of Session Raises Governor's Ire An attempt to get a vote on economic development measures that had been bundled with coal plant legislation failed on what is traditionally a ceremonial adjournment of the legislative session. Gov. Sebelius called it a missed opportunity. |
| Delinquent Taxpayers will Need to Start Paying Up Delinquent taxes and license plate tags have been the hot topic throughout the County. Shawnee county commissioner Vic Miller says the Shawnee county treasurer's office is allowing people with delinquent personal property taxes to buy their registration and license plates -- a violation of state law. Treasurer Larry Wilson says he's looking into it. |
| Officials Say Riley County Drug Bust Puts Huge Dent in Local Drug Supply Riley County Police and Pottawatomie County Sheriff's deputies have arrested four people from a Manhattan home as a result of an ongoing drug investigation. Officials seized cocaine, cash and two vehicles after serving a search warrant. |
| Let the Drag Races Begin! Attention all drag racing fans! The National Hot Rod Association is in town this weekend, May 29th- June 1st, to tear up the drag strip. |
| Royals find way to make slide end Kansas City (22-34) won for the first time since May 18 at Florida. Starter Kyle Davies got the win after being called up from Triple-A Omaha for his first Major League start this season. |
| Bolt breaks 100 meter record The Jamaican runner set the world record with a time of 9.72 seconds. That's two-hundredths of a second faster than the old record held by his countryman, Asafa Powell |
| Dixon, Bartone, Connolly remain atop Topeka fields heading to eliminations Though there was movement further down in the fields, the drivers occupying the top spots remained unchanged at the O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals presented by Castrol GTX with Larry Dixon, Tony Bartone, and Dave Connolly maintaining the No. 1 starting positions. |
| Boughner Stays Perfect with 5-1 Win The Kansas City T-Bones continued their early season success with a 7-4 victory over the Schaumburg Flyers tonight at Alexian Field, improving to 12-4 while maintaining their first-place position in the Northern League. They are now 8-1 on the road this season. |
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