• Economy no winning hand for state, U.S. gaming industry
• Hotels offer free rooms to patients' loved ones
• St. Francis Health Center celebrates its founders
• 'Extreme Makeover:' Now that's a makeover
• Attorney calls claim 'absurd'
• Community mourns canoeist as search continues
• Lawsuit to determine depth of mayor's power
• Case wearing on Lake
• Council delays decision on TIF
• Daily Dose: Five questions about the economy
• Shawnee Heights considers partnership
• Woman shot while driving
• MTAA requests airport funding
• Puppy recovering after car hit house
• Pennies for Peace starts at WU
• Dems scramble at news of Jenkins' replacement
• KDOT increases travel resources

• The six best fruits for your diet
• Sandmeyer: Bring on your best cookies
• McGraw to Stampede into Tuttle shindig

• Halseth holds off Judd to claim Tri-Center title
• For Patterson, finale is job No. 1
• Cats' Sutton now prepared to be physical
• KU coasts to 85-45 victory
• KU women overcome Iowa's Skouby
• Fouls again limit Aldrich
• Former Sizzlers owner dies on 73rd birthday
• Daily Dose: State champs top All-City volleyball
• Topeka short on prep referees
• WU looks to turn around turnover woes

• Ted Stevens' defeat in Alaska marks end of an era
• Big Three automakers running out of time
• Will Clinton pardon of tax fugitive haunt Holder?
• Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan
• Clinton bumps up against Senate seniority rules
• Student bonfire blamed for 1 of 3 Calif. wildfires

• Man nabbed after hitting girlfriend with sandwich
• Driver loses control after sneeze, hits river
• New constable allows friend to fire gun into air
• Ky. inmate who escaped jail returns on own
• Austrian city imposes tracksuit ban for cabbies
• Iowa zoo recaptures flamingo that flew the coop