By Maria Carter, KCUR Newsroom
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Kansas City, MO – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin proved she could give as well as she gets - accepting the Republican nomination for Vice President with a feisty speech attacking Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama and the media. A report from St. Paul.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser is calling for a truce on the ordinance regulating volunteers in the offices of elected officials.
Recent incentives offered by Kansas Speedway to help it win the contract to manage a state-owned casino in Wyandotte County didn't sit well yesterday with the chairman of the state board making the selection.
President Bush has nominated U-S attorney Eric Meglren of Kansas to the federal bench.
The image of KU athletics took a severe hit when two of the Jayhawks' best basketball players from last season were asked to leave the NBA's rookie transition program.