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(Photo Credit: commons.wikimedia.org)WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says there were fewer meth lab incidents in Kansas last year. The KBI reported 143 meth lab incidents statewide in 2012. The Wichita Eagle reports that's down from 214 in 2011. But authorities say the statewide decrease in meth-making doesn't mean there's a drop in use of the drug. KBI special agent in charge Kelly Ralston says while the numbers are down in terms of manufacturing, there's still significant demand for meth. The Drug Enforcement Administration said there were about 12,700 meth lab incidents nationwide in 2012, down 5.5 percent from 13,390 in 2011. Of Kansas's 143 meth lab incidents reported last year, about half were in five counties in the southeastern corner of the state.

(Photo credit: talkingteenage.com)A new report on underage drinking in Kansas discloses some sobering statistics about alcohol abuse by teenagers in the state. The report, from the Underage Drinking Enforcement Center, cites alcohol abuse as a factor in a number of teenage fatalities in Kansas including deaths from murder, suicide, traffic crashes, drowning and alcohol poisoning. Kansas Family Partnership’s Nicole Stejskal (STAY-skull) says teen drinking is much more common than many parents suspect. The report also shows that 15 percent of Kansas 10 th graders say they’ve binged on alcohol at least once in the previous month.http://www.udetc.org/factsheets/KS.pdf

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Every four years, the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas gathers a group of top presidential campaign strategists, political journalists, and pollsters for its popular two-day conference on the presidential election. Join us 8:00 Sunday evening for highlights from the 2012 Dole Institute Post-Election Conference, featuring the national field director and national communications director for President Obama's campaign, and the national political director and deputy national campaign manager for Governor Romney. The conference also featured political reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, RealClearPolitics, and POLITICO.

As the U.S. Supreme Court's new term gets underway, we hear from Laurence Tribe, one of today's top constitutional law experts. Tribe teaches law at Harvard University, has argued dozens of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has written extensively about the judicial system. His latest book is Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution. Tribe spoke at Johnson County Community College earlier this month at the invitation of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation.

Nicole Kidman stars in a juicy, nifty little end-of-summer mystery on Netflix — where the people are beautiful, the arguments are public and sloppy, the house is gorgeous and the drinks are bottomless.

A Pew Research Center survey shows that 63 percent of Republicans under the age of 34 favor legalization.

A Nashville songwriter mashed up tunes by the likes of Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan so you don't have to.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds the majority of Americans oppose the president's national emergency declaration, don't believe there is an emergency and believe Trump's misusing his power.

Human rights groups have called the trial of journalist José Rubén Zamora a politically motivated sham after his newspaper uncovered corruption in the Central American country.