More than $30 million is headed Kansas' way for federal disaster relief after the storms of May and June.

Washburn Business School honored a graduate Thursday. Mayo Schmidt is a native Kansan and now heads Viterra, a successful agribusiness based in Canada.

The largest alternative medicine study the government has ever launched has stopped enrolling people while officials investigate whether participants were fully informed of the risks and are being adequately protected, The Associated Press has learned.

Pakistani soldiers fired at American reconnaissance helicopters that were escorting Afghan and U.S. ground troops along the volatile border Thursday, sparking a five-minute ground battle between the countries which have been allies in the war on terrorism, officials said.

Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II.

A New York photographer is suing two others over Marilyn Monroe images. Bert Stern says the photos were from a series of "unique and irreplaceable images" of the movie star that he took in July 1962 at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles.

Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.

Key members of Congress claimed agreement Thursday on an outline and crucial details of an urgent multibillion-dollar plan to stave off national economic disaster, but a historic White House meeting with President Bush, the two men fighting to replace him and other congressional leaders broke up with conflicts in plain view.

Topeka police are asking for your help in identifying a man involved in a burglary earlier this month. Surveillance video shows the man prying open the front doors of the Family Dollar Store on southeast 6th St. around 11:00 p.m. September 10.

An almost $90,000 project puts Topeka tax payers back where they started. The city of Topeka began work a couple weeks ago to put in a center median along a stretch of Wanamaker in front of Best Buy, Plaza West Shopping Center and Walmart.

The Kansas State Treasurers office announced results from its unclaimed property booth at the Kansas State Fair earlier this month. Fewer people attended the fair in Hutchinson, Kansas than expected, but more than $800,000 in cash and property were found by the people who visited the unclaimed property booth.

Clay County commissioners say they are working out a plan to increase the pay for sheriffs deputies. Starting deputies currently make just under $28,000 a year.

Music filled the air from the Highland Park Marching Band, as a parade made its way down California Ave.

Thursday was Grandparents Day at McEachron Elementary Day. The school celebrated this morning by inviting loved ones to visit for a day of family activities.

It is Gary's Berries time again, and this year Gary is back with all the classics: the "corn maize," the pumpkin patch and a haunted house.

Manhattan High School's West Campus dismissed students at 2 pm Thursday. RIley County Police say the school received two bomb threats, one at 11 am, the second at 1 pm. School officials made the decision to send students home while authorities do a search. Classes Friday have been canceled as well.

West Virginia man charged with battery after allegedly passing gas toward a police officer.

Man who took off his pants before going out for doughnuts pleads guilty to public lewdness.

Police: Mom, girl injured in Ariz. car crash caused by college pranksters vomiting milk.

Rats! NY firehouse shuts dining and sleeping quarters after rodent bites sleeping firefighter.

New homes sales fall by 11.5% to the lowest rate since January 1991. Economists had expected the rate to drop a single point. The average price for a new home also fell nearly 12%

Key members of Congress struck a deal earlier in the day but others were unwilling.The tentative accord would give the Bush administration just a fraction of the $700 billion it had requested up front, Capitol Hill aides said.

A group gathered to celebrate some new additions to Old Prairie Town in Topeka. Organizers say a new walkway and pavilion will add to the park's beauty.

What were you doing back in 1979??? John Barber was just starting a new job in the Sheriff's department.

A storm that could strengthen into a tropical system was poised to hit North Carolina's coastline with 40 mph wind gusts and several inches of rain, forecasters said Wednesday.