Search

Reports on the impact of the Fort Riley military base on the economy of Junction City, Kansas. Percentage of Junction City population who are in the armed forces; Influence of war on business conditions.

The article reports on the complications increased by a school funding deal of Kansas lawmakers, for Governor Sam Brownback in his political campaign for re-election.

Presents a profile of the Brown family, who have become icons through their involvement in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Background on how the family became plaintiffs in the case; Account of how the NAACP persuaded Oliver Brown, a railroad welder in Topeka, Kansas, to take part in their campaign to prove that black children would not be allowed to enroll in all-white elementary schools; Speculation about why Oliver Brown, rather than one of the other 12 plaintiffs, was listed first in the lawsuit; Comments by Leola Brown Montgomery, widow of Oliver, on how their child, Linda, felt at being rejected by the school; Details of the careers of the Linda and her sister, Cheryl.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- One in a series of abortion limits approved in Kansas since Republicans took full control of the state government this year -- a new license law -- is raising uncertainty about the future of all abortion providers in the state. Opponents of abortion say that the licenses -- which newly dictate requirements for the size of rooms at abortion clinics, the stocking of emergency equipment, medications and blood supplies, and ties to nearby hospitals -- will ensure at least a modicum of safety standards in a state that Troy Newman, the leader of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, said ''had been the Wild West for abortionists for as long as anyone can remember.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In some corners of the country, people seem to have grown so grumpy about the tangle of government rules and regulations that it may be easier for politicians to promise not what they will do, but what they will undo. Take Senator Sam Brownback, the Republican from Kansas who is hoping to become governor. In his journeys in this region lately, he has proposed a new Kansas entity, the State Office of the Repealer, whose job it would be to start disposing of all the silly, needless, over-the-top regulations that state officials have dreamed up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Correction Appended [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This city's small population of Vietnamese-Americans imagined a new monument in Veterans Memorial Park, a peaceful slope along the Arkansas River blooming with monuments to soldiers gone. They pictured an American service member, in bronze, his arm resting protectively around the shoulder of a South Vietnamese comrade -- an appreciation, they said, of the Americans' alliance in a war that shaped their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Kansas abortion clinic run by the doctor who was shot to death in church last month has closed permanently, his family said on Tuesday. The clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, in Wichita, had been one of a few in the country to provide abortions to women late in their pregnancies, and for decades, women had traveled there from all over the nation and overseas. The office, Women's Health Care Services Inc., was also the state's only remaining clinic, even for abortions performed early in pregnancy, outside the Kansas City area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For the first time in years, only a Wichita police car has been waiting outside the abortion clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, who was shot to death a week ago. Gone are the trucks bearing enormous images of bloody fetuses, the signs offering the home addresses of clinic workers, the crowd of protesters yelling to women as they enter. Over almost 20 years, a vocal, diverse constellation of anti-abortion forces has grown up in this conservative city with an intensity rarely seen elsewhere, converging around Dr. Tiller's practice. With his death, its future suddenly seems uncertain, too. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Law enforcement officials said on Tuesday that they received a report of vandalism from an abortion clinic here on Saturday involving a man resembling Scott Roeder, the man charged in the shooting death on Sunday in Wichita of a doctor who provided late-term abortions at another clinic. Arriving for an early shift around sunrise, a nurse at the Kansas City clinic, Aid for Women, noticed the man trying to pour super glue into a lock on the back door, another clinic worker said. Spooked, the man fled, but not before the nurse noted his license plate number, which the authorities later linked to Mr. Roeder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

George Tiller, one of only a few doctors in the nation who performed abortions late in pregnancy, was shot to death here Sunday in the foyer of his longtime church as he handed out the church bulletin. The authorities said they took a man into custody later in the day after pulling him over about 170 miles away on Interstate 35 near Kansas City. They said they expected to charge him with murder on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Paul Morrison, attorney general of Kansas, has announced his resignation effective from January 31, 2008. Morrison admitted to an affair with a former employee, Linda Carter. Carter was the director of administration for the Johnson County district attorney's office in Morrison's office. Carter said that Morrison had sought information from her about state attorney general Phill Kline's efforts with a controversial abortion case.

The article states that Kansas Board of Education voters ousted its conservative majority, which had earlier adopted science standards that were the most wide-reaching in the U.S. in challenging scientist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Profiles Dennis L. Rader of Park City, Kansas, who has been charged charged with 10 counts of murder. How the serial killer known as BTK became one of the nation's most notorious and elusive serial killers; Perception of Radar, a public employee and church-goer, as an ordinary person; Comments of Richard LaMunyon, who led the Wichita Police Department at the height of the investigation; Background on the hunt for the killer; Biographical and career information; Details of the murders; Comments of neighbors and others who knew Rader.

Reports on the arrest of Dennis Rader on charges of ten counts of murder in Wichita, Kansas.

Focuses on the long hunt for an elusive serial killer in Wichita, Kansas. Arrest of municipal employee Dennis L. Rader as the suspect in the case of BTK, the name the killer called himself; Details of the notorious, puzzling string of crimes; Statement by Chief Norman Williams of the Wichita police; Methods that were used by the killer; Reactions of families of the dead; How BTK taunted police officials and local news media for over three decades; Success of the police in making the link to Rader; Background on Rader.

Reports on the protests made by the members of the Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas against the police arrest of one of its members, Dennis L. Raders accused of being involved in serial killings in the city.

Reports on the challenges facing U.S. Army recruiters in attracting new soldiers during wartime. Examples of young adults in Topeka, Kansas, who are in the process of enlisting in the military; Numbers of new recruits nationwide; Comments by Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on potential shortfalls in Army and Army National Guard recruits; Discussion of how recruiting pitches have changed in response to the war in Iraq and hostilities in Afghanistan; Comments by new recruits and their parents on their expectations; Comments by recruiters.

Investigates the serial killings in Wichita, Kansas in the 1970's. Number of victims; Letters of the killer; Frustration on the developments of the case.