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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas sheriff says a would-be armed robber left a rural home empty-handed after he confronted the occupant and had the door slammed in his face. Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn says a resident of the home in the northern part of the county answered a knock around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the occupant found himself face-to-face with a man holding a gun. The home's occupant slammed the door, locked himself in a bathroom and called for help. Dunn says the gun-wielding man drove away.

More than a dozen small earthquakes have been recorded in northern Oklahoma and one in south-central Kansas. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded 13 quakes between 6:55 p.m. yesterday (FRI) and today (SAT), including a 2.9 magnitude quake near Belle Plaine, north of the Kansas-Oklahoma state line.

With Duke losing last (THUR) night in the NCAA basketball tournament, only Kansas and Ohio State remain in the field as number-1 seeds. The Jayhawks play tonight (FRI) against 12th seeded Richmond. En route to KU's national title three years ago, coach Bill Self remembers the Jayhawks' two-point victory over tenth-seeded Davidson.Tipoff on tonight's (FRI) game in San Antonio, where the Jayhawks won the title in '08, is at 6:27. The television network it can be seen on is TBS.

Today (TUE), members of a panel looking to make the Kansas court system better stop in Topeka. The Blue Ribbon commission is making 19 stops around the state to listen to comments from citizens around Kansas. Ron Keefover, with the Office of Judicial Administration, ays the public's input is vital at these hearings. The commission will hold two public hearings in Topeka today (TUE) at 2:30 and at 6 in the Public Library. The next stop is scheduled for Salina next week. The panel will also make stops in Dodge City, Wichita and Pittsburg. The results of the public hearings will be submitted to the Kansas Supreme Court at the end of the year.

This year’s report comparing the health of nearly all of the counties in Kansas looks very much like last year’s report. As Kansas Public Radio’s Bryan Thompson explains, the southeast part of the state is decidedly less healthy than the rest of Kansas.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa740f50000Jim McLean, of the KHI News Service, will be along at 6:30 and 8:30 with a related feature on how Wyandotte County is trying to improve its health status, so stay tuned for that.

Human brain damaged by Alzheimer's disease (photo by Flickr user AJC1)A University of Kansas researcher is partnering with a Harvard scientist on a $1.7 million study on Alzheimer’s. Specifically, the researchers will examine a protein believed to play a role in the disease. KPR’s Bryan Thompson has more.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa752bb0004

The Brown V. Board of Education National Historic Site is an official National Park Service site. (Flickr Photo by J. Stephen Conn)A new report from the National Park Service shows that the five U.S. national parks in Kansas generate a lot of money for the state. Dave Smith is Superintendent for the Brown V Board National Historic Site.Smith says across the state, national parks generated revenue of about 4.6 million dollars in the communities surrounding the parks. He says those dollars helped to support 80 jobs in Kansas.

KPR is thrilled to sponsor "Susie on Sundays," on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m. CST, as part of the live stream concert series by Susan Werner, available on Susan's Facebook page.

Effective July 6, 2024, certain programs have been removed and replaced on 96.1 & 97.9 FM due to budget constraints. A full list of programming changes can be found here.

"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.