Sn. Co. Parks and Rec director requests to fill 3 positions after recent resignations; Sn. Co. Appraiser says some property values may drop

In the past 3 years, Clay County high school and middle school random drug tests are yielding fewer positive drug tests.

A former Mo's Express manager is in jail, this on the heels of the arrest of another manager last week. 25-year-old Anthony Talbert Jr. was arrested in Arizona last Thursday, the same day as a managing member of Mo's Express, Monroe Lockhart, and on the same charges. Another man, 21-year-old Jacob Barnett, was also arrested.

Emergency crews took one person to the hospital after a house fire just inside Osage County. The once fully involved house fire on 109th Street is now under control.

Developers are proposing a $600 million wind farm that would stretch across Grant and Haskell counties.

Some Stafford County residents want to force a public vote on the county's decision to issue $555,000 in no-fund warrants for the Stafford County Hospital.

A recent survey shows the number of Kansans who recycle has jumped dramatically.

A group of artists who spend little time mingling with the public will be showing their works at an unusual exhibition and sale in northeastern Kansas.

More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses.

Officer William Masso has pleaded guilty in a case that involved guns, cigarettes and slot machines.

A tent city in Maine that is among the longest-lived of the Occupy movement is being dismantled as part of a new round of evictions. 

A man who led a faction accused of killings and recruiting child soldiers during Liberia's civil war was told to leave the United States by an immigration judge in western New York.

Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only bodies.

Health Minister Franklin Vergara says Manuel Noriega is "conscious and well oriented," and will be kept for 48 hours for observation at Panama City's public Santo Tomas hospital.

State media say the body of a Chinese worker who went missing during a rebel attack on a work site in  has been found and that 29 others abducted in the assault would be freed soon.

Air France and other airlines seek to limit the damage from a strike by aviation industry workers, a walkout prompted by rules that would limit the impact of future strikes.

Asian stock markets were muted as talks dragged on to resolve a massive debt mess in Greece before it explodes into a wider financial crisis.

Passengers flew more miles on the airline last month than they did in January 2011 despite the company's well-publicized bankruptcy status.

The fast-food chain has apologized and pulled an ad that came back to bite them.

Sources say the two companies are close to a deal to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English.