Wichita, Kansas, United States (AHN) - Police in Wichita, Kansas think a man accidentally killed his wife with the same bullet from the gun he used to shoot himself in the head.
They’re designed to keep traffic running smoothly, but if they’re not programmed properly, they can clog up streets and leave heads hurting for drivers stalled as slaves to the traffic light.
Not wearing your seat belt will soon land you with a traffic ticket. Just before the end of the legislative session, Kansas state lawmakers passed a primary seat belt law.
It means officers can pull you over if they see you driving without a seat belt.
Prestige Bus Charters of Wichita and the Kansas Department of Transportation in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation have signed an agreement to provide intercity bus service between Wichita and Pueblo, Colo.
With new speculation coming out every day on what conference realignment could do to the current landscape, he can’t predict what the Big 12 Conference will look like in five years.
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Sarah Are, a high school senior attending Shawnee Mission East, will receive $10,000 as the Kansas state winner of the 2010 AXA Achievements Scholarship in association with U.S. News & World Report.
Topeka – Eighteen attorneys, including three judges, applied by the noon Wednesday deadline for the vacant position on the Court of Appeals created by the April 5 death of Jerry G. Elliott, Lawrence.
Under the tax bill, the state sales tax will go from 5.3 cents per dollar to 6.3 cents per dollar for three years, starting July 1. Then on July 1, 2013, the tax will decrease to 5.7 percent with revenue from 0.4 of a cent going toward highway construction.
On Monday, the Legislature approved a hike in the sales tax that would move the rate up from 5.3 percent to 6.3 percent. Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson is expected to sign the bill by the end of the month.
(KansasReporter) TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas House Tuesday approved and sent to Gov. Mark Parkinson a new 10-year, $8.2 billion transportation plan that critics say will significantly hike the state’s debt load.
KANSAS CITY, MO - The Internal Revenue Service will host a special nationwide Open House on Saturday May 15 to help small businesses and individuals solve tax problems. IRS staff will be available on site or by telephone at locations in both Kansas and Missorui to help taxpayers work through their problems and walk out with solutions.
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The tour will visit more than 20 communities in the state from Monday until Friday next week, and will include deans, faculty members and staff from the Lawrence campus, KU Medical Center and KU School of Medicine-Wichita.
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Overland Park will mark its 50th anniversary May 24 during a history roundtable at the Johnson County Central Resource Library.
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