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 ...
TOPEKA — The $1.25 billion biocontainment facility in Manhattan developed for cutting-edge research on the most dangerous animal diseases is not fully operational three years after its ribbon-cutting, a federal report determined. The Office of Inspector General published a July report ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals’ quest to move to a new downtown ballpark cleared a major hurdle on Wednesday when the Kansas City city council approved a $600 million commitment to help make it happen. The club announced in April that it planned to partner with Hallmark ...
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department was called to the 2200 block of Lafayette Avenue before 9 a.m. Saturday “regarding aggressive dogs fighting,” according to a statement from the department. But when officers contacted the owner, 57-year-old Erika Goodwin, at the scene, a larger, ...
MILAN — An American tourist was killed by a lightning strike on Sicily’s Mount Etna while hiking Europe’s largest volcano following a period of intense activity, Italian firefighters said Monday. The 29-year-old man from Kansas was rescued by helicopter after being struck Sunday evening ...
Never doubt the level of curiosity among University of Kansas researchers. Sometimes they are interested in finding out what happened in a time period as small as a few millionths of a second. If they happen to be the first few millionths of a second in the creation of our universe, even ...