- McCain presses Sebelius on whether she’d support tax credit for insurance
- March 31, 2009
- Republican Sen. John McCain is asking President Barack Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary if she would support giving Americans a $5,000 tax credit for health insurance — the same plan he offered during his failed presidential bid.
- Details suggest body as missing person
- March 21, 2009
- Family, friends and loved ones of Shawn Fowler, 44, have had suspicions and assumptions as to what happened on Dec. 10, when Fowler went missing from his Perry home. Many of their questions now have answers. “It’s been tough; I have been thinking about it every day ever since he disappeared,” said Shawn Martin, Fowler’s best friend.
- Clinton off to Indonesia in next leg of Asia trip
- February 18, 2009
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is hoping to revitalize U.S. economic and development ties with Southeast Asia as she visits Indonesia on the next leg of her first overseas trip as America’s top diplomat. In Jakarta today and Thursday, Clinton intends to announce plans to step up U.S. engagement with a region that often felt slighted by the Bush administration.
- Lawmaker called to duty in Iraq
- February 12, 2009
- Newly elected Kansas Rep. Melanie Meier, D-Leavenworth, has been called to report for active duty. On Feb. 22, Meier, who represents the 40th House District, will head to Fort Hood, Texas, where she will complete training with the Army Reserve before her deployment to Iraq later this year.
- Kennedy withdrawal a political mystery
- January 23, 2009
- Caroline Kennedy’s mysteriously abrupt decision to abandon her Senate bid gave rise to an ugly swirl of accusations Thursday and feverish speculation over whether she jumped or was pushed.
- Caroline Kennedy won’t bid for Senate seat
- January 22, 2009
- Caroline Kennedy says she is dropping out of a bid to win appointment to the U.S. Senate seat once held by her slain uncle, Bobby Kennedy.
- Hundreds gather at Brown v. Board site to take in Obama’s inauguration
- January 21, 2009
- Several hundred people gathered at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka to watch on television in the refurbished elementary school auditorium the inauguration.
- Kansas bank honors McCain as latest loser
- January 21, 2009
- As Barack Obama became president, the man he defeated in November was honored with a different kind of ceremony in northwest Kansas.
- Obama has young — and unlikely — fan in Lawrence
- January 20, 2009
- There was a struggle over the TV remote at the Cornum household Tuesday.
- Sebelius takes in inauguration
- January 20, 2009
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, on some short lists as Obama’s running mate or a member of his cabinet, was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday — not to be sworn in, but as an observer. Sebelius and other governors from around the nation had a prime spot to view the swearing-in ceremony.
- Local students spend day learning about inauguration
- January 20, 2009
- Students at New York School on Tuesday tuned in to television coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration as the nation’s 44th president.
- Lawrence firefighter salutes Obama while at work at South Pole
- January 20, 2009
- A Lawrence man working as a firefighter at the South Pole had to wait until Tuesday night to view a video recording of President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
- Regents hear that higher education could benefit from President Obama’s economic recovery bill
- January 20, 2009
- Reginald Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, said higher education is part of the proposed $825 billion recovery bill that will be worked on by Congress and Obama.
- Democratic Sens. Byrd, Kennedy leave Obama luncheon early; Kennedy said to be ill
- 01:59 p.m., January 20, 2009 Updated 04:42 p.m.
- Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., have been taken from an inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama.
- Massive Internet traffic slows KU Hospital’s electronic record system
- 01:21 p.m., January 20, 2009 Updated 04:23 p.m.
- The inauguration of President Barack Obama was shown live on the Internet, which caused a glitch at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.
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