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“It's a public range. Anybody who walks in gets to shoot.”

Media Credit: Matt Binter The Fancy Creek shooting range emphasizes safety. The workers and volunteers at the range are safety-certified and stress the importance of hearing and vision protection. via Kansas State Collegian

“I wanted a little better, especially in front of the home crowd, but I just didn't have it today, I guess.”

It's hard for Trisa Nickoley to grasp the reality that her running career - the college portion of it anyway - is rapidly coming to an end. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“I am just suggesting you mix it all together and plant it all in the same field.”

Blends are consistently the fourth leading variety planted in Kansas. Jim Shroyer, K-State Extension agronomy specialist, listed several reasons for this fact in his presentation at the Small Grain Solutions ... via High Plains Journal

WHO : Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA officer whose identity was disclosed in 2003, will address the 21st annual Media and the Law Seminar - "Fourth Estate or Fifth Wheel: Government Curbs on Free Speech" ... via The University of Kansas

Even before the killing of 33 people on the Virginia Tech campus a year ago today, northeast Kansas universities were upgrading their security systems. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“We've done our work at this point”

Revenue estimators projected Wednesday that the state would bring in $130 million less than expected over the next two years -- in part because of the federal economic stimulus package. via The Wichita Eagle

What do you think mega-mergers such as the Delta-Northwest Airlines deal will do to air fares? 1. They'll go way up. via WIBW-TV Topeka

Department policy called for placing two Shawnee County sheriff's deputies on administrative leave Tuesday following the district coroner's ruling that day on the death of Walter E. Haake Jr., 57, Sheriff Dick ... via Topeka Capital-Journal

“This will be one of the three or four top issues during the election cycle”

A bill in the Statehouse limiting judges' discretion in sentencing started out like so many - with a public outcry. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“It doesn't seem to get any easier”

One day in October 2006, Ann Mock got a call at her home in the south-central Kansas town of Harper from her 23-year-old son serving in Iraq. via Topeka Capital-Journal

Low to moderate income neighborhoods will have help with spring cleaning during the month of April. via KSNT-TV Topeka

“The semi went into the right lane, and that's when it jackknifed. "The semi hit one vehicle, and that vehicle then struck two other vehicles that were stopped.”

Two accidents that occurred within minutes of each other Thursday afternoon along the same stretch of Interstate 70 in west Topeka snarled traffic for two hours and forced motorists to find an alternate route. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“The Department of Revenue has a lot fewer boats we're collecting taxes on than the Department of Wildlife and Parks is saying are out there on lakes and rivers”

The amendment to lower boat taxes sailed through on a vote of 102-19. Minutes later, representatives approved 99-21 an amendment to guarantee the right to hunt and fish. via Kansas.com

“These enforcement actions, coupled with pending reforms in the mutual fund industry, should help to restore investor confidence”

Under the terms of settlements announced today between securities regulators and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. via Office of the Kansas Securities Commi...

“His question is, 'Do I think my mother will be a better president than my father,'”

Hot topic: Separate resolutions that would reauthorize the city's lease-purchases of an enterprise resource planning business software system and a second Topeka police helicopter. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“We've talked to people whose lives have been shattered and ruined because the Board of Healing Arts didn't do their job”

"Clearly they have failed to do their job," said Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita. "Clearly they are standing over that agency in a pool of innocent human blood." Her nonbinding resolution passed unanimously. via The Wichita Eagle

“A woman said, 'Your husband has been pardoned by President Bush and you'll be getting a letter in a few weeks,' ”

Pure and simple, a White City man wanted to be able to legally hunt again. That, and clear his name by wiping a felony off his record. via Topeka Capital-Journal

Maybe you're so tired of hearing about the Sunflower power plant, you'd let them pump the smokestack emissions straight into your living room if Kansas lawmakers would just make a decision and get on with it. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“Budgets really reflect values. When you spend the people's money, those are the values of our state”

But funding for several state programs was set aside until lawmakers know better how much money the state will have. via The Wichita Eagle

“Ms. Dreasher did a fabulous job.”

The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas will unveil a special exhibit titled "You'll Never Walk Alone: The Public and Private Life of Bob Dole" on Friday, April 4, at the Dane G. Hansen ... via The University of Kansas