Tight state budgets aren't just affecting what happens in metro classrooms. A slashed budget could change the way the University of Kansas Medical Center trains would-be doctors and nurses. It could also change the search for a cancer cure. Full Story »
With less than two weeks until Christmas, retailers and economists say spending is starting to pick up and that's good news for our battered economy. Full Story »
Big changes have been made to the federal bill that banned all 40 species of python. Full Story »
Turner Gill's arrival in Lawrence comes with a family connection already in place. The oldest of his two daughters is a sophomore at KU. Full Story »
The Liberty School District has to cut next year's budget by $3 million and superintendent Mike Brewer plans to unveil where he thinks those cuts should be made Monday night in a special meeting before the board Full Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush, according to two groups that are settling lawsuits they filed over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system. Full Story »
In Raymore on Monday night, the City Council voted to allow itself to carry concealed handguns in City Hall. Full Story »
This is shaping up to be one of the worst years in the state's history for domestic violence deaths. So far this year, the state has reported the deaths of 32 adults and 13 children in domestic violence cases. Full Story »
The Turner Gill era has begun at Kansas. The Jayhawks introduced their new football coach on Monday. The 47-year-old Gill was the head coach at Buffalo, where he compiled a 20-30 record in four years. Full Story »
A pair of Missouri women's basketball players suspended after a late-night weekend fight say they were defending a female friend from her aggressive male roommate. Full Story »
NEW YORK (AP) — Easing concerns over global credit problems and more signs of corporate dealmaking are giving stocks a moderate boost. Full Story »
Each Sunday on the high plains near Lawrence, Kan., a small band of people pitch a tent and hold church. It's like something out of the old west. Both the clergy and congregation are all cowboys and proud of it. Full Story »
Liberty Police said on Monday that the search was over for an eight-year-old boy who they said was kidnapped by his father. Full Story »
Defense and a kicker helped the Buffalo Bills hold on -- for once. Rian Lindell kicked three field goals and the Bills intercepted Matt Cassel four times to beat the struggling Kansas City Chiefs 16-10 on Sunday. Full Story »
A Kansas City staple is celebrating a major milestone. The Kansas City Zoo hit the century mark on Sunday, and despite its up and down 100-year history, officials are expecting a bright future. Full Story »
Kansas City Chiefs starting defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey has limped to the locker room just before halftime against the Buffalo Bills. Full Story »
Kansas hopes that Turner Gill can do for the Jayhawks what he did for Nebraska. As a smooth option quarterback in the early 1980s, Gill was the difference-maker for the Cornhuskers, helping free them from Oklahoma's long domination and propelling Tom Osborne's program to the top of the Big Eight. Full Story »
Dantrell Savage is inactive for Kansas City's game against Buffalo, leaving the Chiefs thin at running back for the second straight week. Full Story »
Lawrence Police were breaking up a melee early Sunday morning where an officer was injured, when shots were fired nearby. The police said a large fight spilled out onto the street from the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts. Full Story »
The icy start to the winter season combined with a weak economy are not bad news to one area attraction. Snow Creek in Westin, Missouri, expects a busy season as they opened their ski slopes for the season on Saturday. Full Story »
Friends and family of missing Bates County rancher David Cook are holding out hope for information after his disappearance was featured on FOX's 'America's Most Wanted' on Saturday night. Full Story »
The Salvation Army is working to make sure that hundreds of kids whose parents are behind bars won't be disappointed for Christmas as part of Operation Toy Lift. Full Story »
Buffalo's Turner Gill has agreed to become Kansas' new coach, a person close to the situation told The Associated Press on Saturday night. Full Story »
An Iraq veteran and his wife are selling the house that "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rebuilt for them after a tornado. Full Story »
Kristy Childs was in sixth grade the first time she helped a man undress for sex. Full Story »
A crow stands on a tree branch in Switzerland. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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