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Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies at 94

TOPEKA — Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor's daughter who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a spouse into office, has died. She was 94. Kassebaum Baker died Friday of natural causes, according to her son, Bill Kassebaum. "She loved Kansas. She loved ...

Kansas high schooler dies at football practice

An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday to determine how a high school football player from a tiny school in western Kansas died on the first day of practice. The teen died around 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to Pawnee County Attorney Doug McNett. “I did not know the young man personally, but ...

Data cards retrieved from deadly plane, helicopter collision

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Federal investigators have pulled intact data cards from a state police helicopter and Cessna plane that collided at a small airport in central Pennsylvania, killing the plane's pilot. Aaron McCarter, investigator-in-charge with the National Transportation Safety Board, ...