Updated: 7:19 PM The plan follows this week's decision by the Defense Department to proceed with federal furloughs amid budget shortfalls.
Posted: 3:38 PM Republican Senate leaders aren't budging much on lowering the state's sales tax in July as part of a plan that also cuts income taxes.
Updated: 5:38 PM Federal regulators have sided with an engineer who was fired for reporting unsafe conditions created by a contractor at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas.
Posted: 3:27 PM Kansas lawmakers are close to approving limits on the use of state tax dollars to lobby federal, state or local officials on gun control issues.
Updated: 3:04 PM Copeland spent the week in Ohio at Touch Bionics, where she received two bionic hands free of charge.
Updated: 3:17 PM But Friday's full report from the Department of Labor also says April's job growth was less robust than expected.
Posted: 8:18 PM The estimated jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing has swelled to a record $600 million for the popular lottery game.
Posted: 9:33 AM A French police official says jewelry worth about $1 million has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town's film festival.
Posted: 9:08 AM Officials say one U.S. Navy sailor was killed and several others were hurt in a training exercise at Fort Knox in Kentucky.
Posted: 9:04 AM A Hutchinson bail bondsman will stand trial on charges that he sought sex from women in exchange for bonding them out of jail.
Updated: 10:11 AM Negotiations on the Kansas budget for the next two fiscal years have come to an abrupt halt after senators demanded a final offer from the House that could lead to ending the 2013 session.
Posted: 8:54 AM The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party and conservative groups seems to be part of a culture of cover-ups and political intimidation by the Obama administration.
Posted: 8:47 AM A new general is heading to Fort Riley next week to take command of the Army's 1st Infantry Division.
Posted: 8:42 AM A memorial service takes place in Wichita to honor Sedgwick County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Posted: 10:51 PM Those safety rules cover outdoor recreation, Internet use and household chores.
Posted: 9:43 PM House Minority Leader Paul Davis said Thursday that he'll take an unspecified "course of administrative action" against Tyler Longpine, his director of special projects.
Posted: 9:02 PM Rozenna Luna had been drinking and smoking methamphetamine two days ago and had made no attempt to contact any safe haven locations, government agencies or family members for help.
Posted: 8:55 PM Cherokee County Sheriff's Lt. Jay Baker says authorities were performing a welfare check Tuesday and found that 77-year-old James Reece had been dead for several days.
Updated: 7:39 PM District Attorney Marc Bennett says his office will not seek the death penalty for the man charged in the shooting that killed two people at a Dollar General store in November.
