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A United Airlines jetliner hit severe turbulence while flying over Kansas, injuring 30 and jolting one woman out of her seat so forcefully that she left a crack when she hit the side of the cabin, authorities and a witness said.

Futures trades by Waddell & Reed, a mutual fund based in Kansas, have been linked to the May 6 “flash crash” of the Dow.

A Wisconsin dad drives all the way to Kansas each week to hang on to a job in tough times.

General Motors Co. will go to 24-hour operations at factories in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana to handle an expected increase in demand and to make up for production lost from a large-scale factory consolidation announced earlier in the year.

The automaker says it will add a third shift at its Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kan., in January.

A man facing nearly 30 years in prison for raping three women who had advertised on Craigslist's former "erotic services" section apparently committed suicide in his Kansas jail cell, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

David Lee Gage, 52, of Wichita, was found dead at the Sedgwick County Jail early Monday after another inmate who was headed to breakfast looked through the window to Gage's cell and saw his motionless body, said Maj. Glenn Kurtz of the county sheriff's office.

Family of slain abortion provider George Tiller says his clinic will be "permanently closed."

The suspect in the fatal shooting of an abortion doctor in Kansas had professed an anti-government, anti-abortion philosophy in years past, some who knew him said.

Controversial US abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot dead at a church in his home state of Kansas, officials say.

Thirteen-year-old Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, spelled "laodicean," Thursday night to take top honors in the 82nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Michael Vick and Tony Dungy have met at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., where the former star quarterback is imprisoned.