A local woman being praised for her many years in business made our good news Thursday. Gay Trimble, 73, who owns Gayle's Beauty Salon at 606 Wayne St. in Topeka, celebrated her 35th year in business Thursday.

An 18-year-old Emporia State student who was shot and killed while hunting is being remembered Saturday. A scholarship is set up for incoming freshman at ESU.

Local students were able to enjoy their day with a VIP story time. Kansas Education Commissioner, Dr. Alexa Posny, was part of the "Read for the Record" campaign at Quincy Elementary School.

Senior citizens would like to see an alert system for missing elderly people. The Silver-Haired Legislature voted Thursday to urge lawmakers to establish a "Silver Plan."

Topeka police need your help identifying a suspect who stole a woman's purse and used her ATM card. An ATM camera caught this picture of the suspect.

Leaders from Armenia are observing exercises simulating a potential accident at Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant Thursday. They're learning how Kansas officials would respond to a potential nuclear disaster.

26-year old Neil Hockenbarger was killed in a car accident in Lawrence early Thursday morning. His wife suffered minor injuries. Hockenbarger was a KU student.

Arkansas City Mayor Mel Kuhn is apologizing for appearing in blackface and using sexually suggestive slang in a drag queen beauty contest that was part of a weekend fundraiser. The apology followed a meeting with the NAACP.

The owners of the World Trade Center site scaled back designs for a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday and delayed several projects by up to two years, but said costs will still be more than $1 billion over budget.

Republican Nick Jordan is making the economic bailout bill an issue in his bid to unseat Democrat Dennis Moore in the state's 3rd Congressional District. Moore was the only member of the Kansas Congressional delegation to support the bill.

With Penn National Gaming pulling out of its deal, the Kansas Lottery Commission is reopening the application process for managing a state-owned casino in Cherokee and Crawford Counties. The new deadline is January 21st.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he's going to ask the City Council to change the term limits law so he can run for a third term.

The judge and lawyers for both sides in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and armed robbery case are meeting behind closed doors to work on jury instructions, and plan to present them before closing arguments later Thursday.

A federal judge angrily halted the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens on Thursday after the Alaska lawmaker's attorney accused prosecutors of withholding evidence that would help their case.

Barack Obama has surged to a seven-point lead over John McCain one month before the presidential election.

Searchers found the wreckage of Steve Fossett's plane in California's rugged Sierra Nevada just over a year after the millionaire adventurer vanished on a solo flight, and the craft appears to have hit the mountainside head-on, authorities said Thursday.

President Bush and congressional backers of a $700 billion financial industry bailout carried out high-intensity lobbying Thursday, on the eve of a crucial House vote that Bush said "a lot of people are watching."

An industrial chemical blamed for sickening thousands of infants in China was found in candy in four Connecticut stores this week, a state official said Wednesday.

If there ever is another anthrax attack, the letter carrier may deliver your antibiotics.

The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.

With a new cold season coming, the government is trying once more to decide what to do about over-the-counter medicines for kids' coughs and sniffles. Doctors question the drugs' benefits and worry about their risks.

Burger King Corp. said Thursday it is now cooking with trans fat free cooking oils at all of its restaurants nationwide.

A computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram, one of the largest and most rigorous tests of computer-aided detection found.

President Bush said Thursday "a lot of people are watching" to see if Congress will enact the $700 billion financial rescue plan that he called the best chance to restore calm to the financial industry.

Tight credit is taking a toll on manufacturing and jobs. More people than expected lined up at the unemployment lines last week and orders to U.S. factories plunged by the largest amount in two years, according to government data released Thursday.