Daniel W. Heath, a businessman, has been sentenced to more than 120 years in prison for running an investment scam in Southern California. He was found guilty of running a Ponzi scheme that funneled money from new investors to pay off people who had also given them cash.

Authorities say no bomb was found after a threat forced nearly 100 passengers from a Northwest Airlines jet waiting for takeoff from Detroit. Flight 467 had rolled away from the gate at Detroit Metropolitan Airport before passengers and their bags were removed.

President Bush is highlighting the progress, not the problems, in Afghanistan as he meets with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Washington. Bush says civilian reconstruction work is improving the daily lives of Afghans living among a persistent insurgency.

The Congressional schedule is keeping U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda from a scheduled debate with Republican challenger Lynn Jenkins Saturday. Boyda had hoped to arrange a satellite link to participate. The event will be rescheduled.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch will lay off 20 employees from production, marketing and the newsroom. The Post-Dispatch is owned by Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises, whose stock has declined since it bought Pulitzer Inc. in 2005.

Federal prosecutors have introduced a note that reads "No paper trail'' as evidence in the corruption trial of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Stevens' lawyers say the senator was too busy to oversee every aspect of the project but did pay the bills that came in.

A coalition of citizen groups want an extension of the voter registration deadline in the counties hit hardest by Hurricane Ike by at least a week. A spokesman for the governor says each of the 29 counties that have been declared disaster areas would have to make a specific request before he could consider it.

School officials in northern Indiana confirm that four people killed in a collision involving a school bus were children. The Twin Lakes School Corp. says the bus was taking the children home from classes when it crashed Friday.

A fire at a home at 413 NE Kellam did $15,000 damage Friday afternoon. No one was at the residence. Topeka Fire officials continue investigating what caused it.

The U.S. financial meltdown was a top issue today when President Bush hosted Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the White House. The president says he told Brown that the plan is big enough to make a difference and that he believes it is going to be passed.

20-year old Ryan Gleue is hospitalized in critical condition. Emporia Police say he was fleeing from them Friday morning when he crashed his motorcycle into the back of a pickup.

In Illinois, one trooper was shot in the head, and the other was shot in the arm. Illinois State Police have released the names of two troopers wounded in the shootout that killed a suspect. The men were shot Thursday while serving a search warrant in a Williamson County drug case.

Topeka Fire crews responded to a broken thermometer situation at a Topeka apartment that sent mercury into the area. They determined they couldn't adequately remove it, so a contract crew from out of state has been called in.

Sen. Edward Kennedy is back home after being taken to a Massachusetts hospital in an ambulance. Kennedy has been undergoing treatment for brain cancer. He complained about feeling ill Friday.

If you had planned to do some ice skating or hockey playing you might want to listen up. All ice skating programs scheduled at the Kansas Expocentre for Sunday are cancelled.

An Amber Alert that was issued for Jesse and Hayley Jewell, twin 2-year-olds who were last seen in Ottawa, Kansas has ended Friday night. Their mother, Julie Ann Makepeace Age 32 is suspected of taking the kids. Authorities recovered the vehicle they believe she was driving Friday night in Wellsville.

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A set of Hot Wheels has been recovered. Topeka police featured a stolen dark blue 2000 Cadillac Deville. It was found Wednesday night in the 2300 block of southeast 37th through a tip about a suspicious vehicle.

John McCain says he will go ahead and travel to Mississippi for Friday's scheduled debate with Barack Obama. McCain had threatened to pull out unless a deal was reached.

You may need to allow a little extra time for your Monday morning drive to work. Beginning Monday, the left westbound lane of I-70 from Rice Rd. to just west of the Kansas Turnpike Authority Toll Plaza will close for pavement work.

The Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility has decided that Butler National Service Corporation will build and manage a new casino in dodge city.

Picasso's "Harlequin" is going on the auction block. The 1909 work was owned for about 60 years by surrealist painter Enrico Donati.

History meets the outdoors this weekend in Lecompton for the fifth annual Bald Eagle Rendezvous.

The list of products caught in China's tainted milk scandal grew Friday to include baby cereal in Hong Kong and snack foods in Japan, while Taiwan reported three children and a mother with kidney stones in the island's first cases possibly linked to the crisis.

They were Premier Zhou Enlai's favorite late-night snack. He loved White Rabbit candy so much he gave a bag to President Nixon during his historic visit to China. But the iconic brand, beloved by generations of Chinese, took a hit after it was linked to the tainted milk scandal.