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| Recycled State Agency Computers Found to Hold Personal Data The Legislative Post Audit Committee Wednesday, June 18, indicated that several old state agency computers had not had their drives swept clean before being put up for sale. One of those held 2,800 social security numbers. |
| Community Members Connect with Highway Study A public forum in Topeka Wednesday allowed community members to stop by Seaman High School and give their opinions and suggestions for the Highway 24 corridor to a consulting team. |
| Carrie Underwood to Rock Kansas Expocentre Country star Carrie Underwood will appear in concert at the Kansas Expocentre Tuesday, September 30th. Little Big Town will also perform. Tickets go on sale 10 am, Saturday, June 21st. |
| Fund Set Up for Jackson County Tornado Victims Jackson County saw 32 homes damaged when a tornado struck June 11th. George Askren was killed. A fund is set up at Farmers State Bank in Holton to help with their county's recovery efforts. |
| Driver Hits Another Vehicle While Fleeing Police Highway Patrol Troopers pursued the driver of a Ford Explorer Wednesday night after he was caught driving erratically and weaving in and out of traffic. The man hit a truck before troopers and deputies stopped him using stop sticks. |
| Governor Grants Extensions for Lotto Gaming Facility Review Board The Kansas Lottery Commission will have more time to decide which applicants will get the contracts to operate four state-owned casinos. |
| Help Keeps Coming for Helping Hands A telethon on WIBW-TV June 11th raised $58,000 for Helping Hands Humane Society. In the week since, more than $22,000 more in donations has come in toward their $5.5 million goal to build a new animal shelter. |
| Pines Fire Not First Incident At Apartment Two other high profile incidents have occurred at The Pines over the last three decades. We have included 13 News archive footage for a look back at those incidents. |
| Marshall County, Kansas Accident Claims Life of Teen The Kansas Highway Patrol says 18-year old Rachel Swanson lost control of her vehicle Tuesday morning on Tumbleweed Road, near 17th Road west of Frankfort. Swanson's vehicle rolled several times and she was killed. |
| Topeka Walgreens Manager Earns National Guard Award When the Kansas National Guard called Sgt. Michael Mathewson to duty, his boss at the Walgreens on 10th and Gage gave his full support. The Guard recognized James Tignor Wednesday for his efforts. |
| Government to Implement Rating System for Nursing Homes The Bush administration says a rating system for nursing homes will be in place by the end of the year. The information will be posted on a government web site. Also Wednesday, officials announced a new requirement for sprinkler systems in nursing homes. |
| Congress Enacts Farm Bill over Bush Veto, Again The $290 billion farm bill gets a second vote of approval. A clerical error had 34 pages missing from the first version sent to the White House. President Bush vetoed the second bill Wednesday, but the House and Senate overrode the veto later in the day. |
| Agreement on War Funding Bill Includes Flood Relief Money Party leaders announced an agreement on a war funding bill. It includes billions of dollars in emergency relief for Midwest flooding victims. It also boosts the GI Bill. |
| Thai School Gets Transvestite Bathrooms For teen boys who prefer to dress as girls at one rural high school in Thailand, taking a bathroom break no longer means choosing between "male" and "female" restrooms. There's now a "transvestite toilet." |
| States Eye Uniform Graduation Rate Reporting Comparing graduation rates from state to state, or even school to school, can be difficult because all kinds of methods are used to determine them. Federal officials have a solution that could make that process easier - and more accurate - within the next five years. |
| Veganic Farmers Work without Animal Fertilizers Much like certified organic farmers, veganic farmers use no synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or genetically modified ingredients. Veganic farmers take it to another level by not using any manures or slaughterhouse byproducts. They don't even use organically approved pesticides. |
| Shooting Rampage by Vietnam Soldier Leaves 5 Dead A Vietnamese soldier shot and killed four people and seriously injured five others before shooting himself dead, state media and witnesses reported Wednesday. |
| Washington's Elite Honor Russert Journalists and political leaders joined Maureen and Luke Russert at Wednesday's Kennedy Center service mourning the "Meet the Press" host. Russert died Friday at age 58. |
| Anglican Bible Conservatives Hold Strategy Summit Less than a month ahead of a global gathering of Anglican leaders, conservative bishops angry about the liberalism of churches in the United States, Canada and elsewhere are meeting for a strategy summit in Jordan and Israel. |
| McCain Promotes Energy Policies in SW Missouri Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain addressed a wide range of topics during a town-hall style forum before about 500 people at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO Wednesday. |
| House Untouched In Tornado, Struck By Lightning Catches Fire This story is nearly too ironic to believe, one house on Amherst was the only untouched on the entire block in the tornado, Wednesday morning it was struck by lightning and went up in flames. |
| Clean Up In Manhattan, "It's Going Really Well." Clean up is in full swing in the city of Manhattan this week, we took a trip to Manhattan Wednesday to see the efforts. |
| Rainfall Amounts from Wednesday Morning Rainfall totals from the storms early Wednesday morning. |
| FEMA Gives Hurricane Supplies Back to Louisiana Some of the $85 million in supplies will be given to state nonprofit agencies. CNN investigation revealed FEMA gave away supplies as government surplus. FEMA administrator has defended the agency's decision to give away items. |
| Ill. Levee Breaches Force Small Town's Evacuation Floodwaters breached two levees in western Illinois on Wednesday and threatened more Mississippi River towns in Missouri after inundating much of Iowa for the past week. |
| Rapid Response to Coastal Ports a Key Hurricane Season Goal of NOAA's Navigation Response Teams With an active hurricane season forecast by NOAA's National Weather Service, planning and preparation is the message both to the general public as well as to key components within NOAA who respond with emergency services support following a storm's passage. |
| Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from severe weather could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness. Thie USDA Consumer's Guide will help you make the right decisions for keeping your family safe during an emergency. |
| Midwest Floodwaters Flow Downstream Iowans Return To Waterlogged Homes And Business While Rivers Farther South Begin To Crest |
| Spate of Disasters Empties Red Cross Coffers A string of recent weather-related calamities across the United States has left the American Red Cross low on cash and struggling to provide aid to disaster victims, officials from the premier US charity group said Tuesday. |
| Midwest Farmland Flooding Boosts Food Prices The Mississippi River surged up through storm drains and flooded part of an eastern Iowa river town on Tuesday as the worst Midwest floods in 15 years ruined cropland and drove up world food prices. |
| US Stocks Head for Lower Open as Oil Prices Rise U.S. stocks headed for a lower open Wednesday as oil prices advanced and as investors awaited quarterly results from Morgan Stanley and FedEx Corp. |
| Oil Prices Edge Up Slightly ahead of Crude Report Oil prices steadied Wednesday ahead of a U.S. government report expected to show a drop in crude oil inventories. |
| Katie Holmes to Draw Big Bucks on Broadway The curtain goes up September 18 for Katie Holmes' Broadway debut. Holmes will perform on Broadway on September 18 for a preview performance of "All My Sons." |
| Obama Meets with National Security Advisory Group Barack Obama has scheduled the inaugural meeting Wednesday of what he's calling his Senior Working Group on National Security. It includes former members of Congress and high-ranking Clinton administration officials. |
| Oil Eases Further Below $134 a Barrel Oil prices extended their decline Wednesday despite expectations that a U.S. government report to be released later in the day will show a drop in crude oil inventories. |
| Floodwaters Threaten River Towns in Ill., Mo. Floodwaters that bedeviled Iowans for the past week have flowed out of the state and are now threatening Mississippi Rivers towns in Illinois and Missouri. |
| Pierce Named MVP in Celtics Championship The Boston Celtics have won an unprecedented 17th NBA title in Boston, with former Jayhawk Paul Pierce earning Most Valuable Player honors in a 131-92 crushing of Kobe and the Los Angeles Lakers. |
| Highway 24's Future to be Explored After hosting a Heartland Visioning session last night, Seaman High School welcomes neighbors and business owners to talk about the corridor study of U.S. 24. |
| Governors Buck Bush on Offshore Drilling Arnold Schwarzenegger and other Govs vow to fight the attempts at opening up their coastlines, and tap into ocean reserves. President Bush is asking Congress to lift the ban, and says it could produce millions of barrels of new oil. |
| AG: Kansas Need to Watch for Scams Attorney General Steve Six says tragic events like last week's tornadoes show off Kansans' giving spirit, but creates opportunities for ripoff schemes and scam artists. |
| 8 Kansas Cases Linked to Salmonella The Department of Health and Environment has identified eight cases in our state, tied to the salmonella infections in tomatoes. |
| Fricke Inducted into Hall of Fame The former chairman of Security Benefit is enshrined in the Kansas Business Hall of Fame in Tuesday night ceremonies. |
| Momentum Shifts from Bill to Roy While three Jayhawk stars lay the groundwork to make their way to the NBA, North Carolina's Roy Williams is beaming about the three stars coming back to play for the Tarheels. |
| FEMA, Region by Region Emergency managers detail the damage state by state, and how FEMA is helping region by region in the flooded Midwest. |
| Group Discusses Elder Abuse A panel of professionals from area community agencies met to address questions regarding elder abuse. Organizers say this abuse is often over looked. |
| Man Who Shot Two in Atchison Restaurant Sentenced The man who shot two people last October in an Atchison restaurant was sentenced Monday in Atchison County Court. Wannis "David" Widner, Jr. pleaded no-contest in May to the shootings. A claim to pay for medical bills was also made. |
| Boeing Wins Key Round in Air Force Tanker Protest The Government Accountability Office grants Boeing's protest of a $35 billion Air Force tanker deal. The Air Force awarded the contract to Northrop Grumman and its European partner Airbus. |
| Manhattan Curbside Debris Pickup Manhattan City crews picking up debris and tree limbs downed by last week's tornado. Debris must be moved curbside to be picked up. Destroyed structure removal must still be privately arranged. Financial help is being offered. |
| GI Dead in Riley Co. Crash After Chase Private Gary Guerra Jr. died in the Monday night crash in Manhattan and a 22-year-old passenger in the vehicle was released after hospital treatment. |
| Children Playing T Ball The Ken Berry Fields are full with baseball games including T ball for the little ones. |
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