TOPEKA — A bipartisan majority of the Kansas Senate made a legislatively tricky shot on goal before passing the ball to the team in the Kansas House. On a 21-19 vote Thursday, the Senate approved a bill allowing cities or counties to use a temporary law enabling licensed restaurants and ...
While brackets made for the NCAA Tournament may be going bust over the first weekend with crazy upsets and buzzer beating shots, the tournament can serve as a boom for college basketball hubs like Lawrence. Of course, regular season Kansas Jayhawk gamedays bring a lot of people to the town ...
At a local animal sanctuary, Barney – a young steer known for his big knees – quickly became a favorite among visitors. Barney had arrived as a calf with an infection permanently affecting his joints and making it difficult for him to move, and his future was uncertain. Over time, though, ...
Parts of California and Arizona were under extreme heat warnings again Saturday while sweltering summerlike weather even stretched as far north as Nebraska just a day into spring. Temperatures at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit were forecast in the Southwest, closing a remarkable week of ...
NEW YORK — Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, never-before-seen photos of his heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that bears his name. Quick thinking saved Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott, who ended the ...
Nicholas Brendon, an actor best known for his role as a loveable underdog sidekick on the hit television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," has died. He was 54. Brendon's family announced the death in a statement posted on his social media accounts Friday. They said he died in his sleep of ...
