KHPA hopes to increase tobacco tax by 75 cents and to ban smoking across Kansas.

Authorities say two soldiers from Fort Riley are accused of impersonating a police officer in Manhattan.

Three Black Hawks and 21 crew members from the Kansas Guard's 108th are in Texas helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

The left lane of eastbound I-70 at Fairlawn Road will be closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday.

Worried Democrats want Barack Obama to get tougher, show more passion. Why is he so calm, supporters ask, so close to an election that looks so tight?

Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor.

A Doniphan County judge rules Tamara Sue Kostman guilty in the killing of her infant son a year ago.

A routine check of his probation led Malibu authorities to conduct a drug sweep of O'Neal's home.

The market was down almost 450 points today on news the Fed is rescuing the insurance giant with a planned $85 billion takeover.

Authorities say that the engineer of a commuter train ran through a red light and never hit his brakes in the final moments before last week's fatal collision with an oncoming freight train.

The abuse-of-power investigation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was unraveling Wednesday, with most key witnesses refusing to testify, new legal maneuvering and heightened Republican pressure to delay the probe until after Election Day.

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Lessons at Topeka's Whitson Elementary School Wednesday focused on the meaning of the Constitution and the freedoms it grants Americans.

Ailing bank Washington Mutual Inc. appeared headed toward a sale Wednesday after a major investor removed a potential stumbling block and nervous banking regulators began approaching the most logical buyers.

A ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse honors Buffalo Soldiers for their service in the U.S. Army. Those African-American cavalry units began serving on the Great Plains after the Civil War. The Army disbanded the last unit in 1951, after President Truman had integrated the armed forces.

Following Tuesday night's city council meeting and the slew of upset Wanamaker business owners, City of Topeka officials sat down Wednesday to find a plan for the Wanamaker Road construction between Winding Road and 17th Street that would make everyone happy.

Topeka police continue looking for two men who held up a pizza delivery driver at gun point Tuesday. It happened just before 11:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of SE Golden.

The University of Pittsburgh is withdrawing from debate tournaments and a debate coach has apologized for an argument in which a Kansas coach ``mooned'' her during a tournament.

A Neodesha man is charged with stealing more than $700,000 from his previous employer. Larry Williams, 49, is accused of unlawfully transferring the money into bank accounts he controlled while working at "Molded Fiber Class Construction Company" in Independence.

A Lawrence man will spend almost 20 years in prison for drug trafficking charges. Aharlock Fixico, 29, pleaded guilty last July to 1 count of conspiracy to operate a crack house within a thousand feet of an elementary school in Lawrence, and 4 counts of distributing crack cocaine near the school.

The promoter for Osage County's "Dog Stock" concert will stand trial on bad check charges but fewer of them. Randall Long, 52, had been facing 18 felony bad check charges, but County Attorney Brandon Jones told 13 News only nine of the alleged victims showed up for Long’s preliminary hearing Wednesday.

A teenager was life-flighted to a Kansas City Hospital following an accident in Jefferson County Tuesday night. It happened around 6:20 p.m. at 23rd and Osage Rd.

A grocery chain is seeing some big sales increases in their second quarter, but Hurricane Ike may change that. The Wichita Business Journal reports Kroger Company sales are up twelve percent to eighteen point one billion.

The Wichita Eagle reports that 16 of its employees have accepted voluntary buyouts and six more will be laid off. In a story posted Tuesday on its web site, the newspaper said the buyouts and layoffs amount to a 6 percent reduction in its work force.

The government was dispatching thousands of inspectors to monitor producers as officials reported Wednesday that the number of babies sick from tainted milk formula had climbed dramatically to nearly 6,200 from 1,200 a day earlier.