Businesses across Kansas received sorrowing news in December regarding their payment into the state’s unemployment insurance fund.

Sumner County will have to wait a little longer for a final decision from the Kansas Lottery for a destination casino.

A Mulvane man was charged Tuesday in connection with a double homicide after two bodies were found in a Wichita home on Thanksgiving Day.

According to police reports, Pittsburg State University head football coach Chuck Broyles was arrested late Tuesday night in Galena, Kan., and charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol.

Rep. Bob Grant, D-Cherokee, quipped that he was bunkered in to avoid potential attackers infuriated by Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson’s proposed budget cuts.

An application for a proposed casino one mile north of Interstate 44 at U.S. Highway 166/400 was rejected by the Kansas Lottery Tuesday.

Enrollment and re-enrollment for Medicare Part D drug coverage opens Nov. 15 and runs through Dec. 31. Acting Secretary of Aging Martin Kennedy encourages Medicare beneficiaries to complete their enrollment as early as possible to ensure that coverage is available without any delays on January 1, 2010.

It was a typical blustery Kansas day on the first day of school for the Wellington Christian Academy. After hours filled with meeting new teachers and classmates, the student body gathered outside for their annual event — the balloon release.

For the next two years, Leavenworth County could see as many as 10,000 visitors from across the country as the host of the Kansas Sampler Festival.

The Kansas Sampler Foundation announced its “Eight Wonders of Kansas Customs” early Friday — and two of them are in Leavenworth.

Online voting will end at midnight on Tuesday, Oct. 20 for the “8 Wonders of Kansas Customs” contest.

The Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board heard testimony Wednesday from Lakes Entertainment on their casino management proposal with Chisholm Creek L.L.C. (Foxwoods).

Because of new financial information, the Kansas Lottery Commission delays contract approval for the South Central Zone.

Prairie Sky will not be presenting their casino proposals to move on to the Kansas Gaming and Facility Review Board, but will instead be teaming up with Chisholm Creek Resorts (Foxwoods), lottery officials confirmed.

When Kansas City Chiefs star linebacker Derrick Thomas died tragically on Feb. 8, 2000 — not long after a car accident that left him paralyzed — it stunned everyone close to him. It moved Chiefs President Carl Peterson to say “a light had gone out in Kansas City.”