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The Kansas Jayhawks are in the WNIT's Fab Four and just one win away from playing for a national championship.

State colleges and universities could stand to lose millions of dollars in funding.

Kidnapping cases are often complicated and tedious, but the case of Jacob Wetterling seemed like it should have been open and shut. Jacob was kidnapped in front of two of his friends one night in 1989 as they biked home on a dead-end street in St. Joseph, Minnesota. As law enforcement scrambled to find the boy and return him home, the town was ripped apart and the case seemed to go colder and colder.

On the women's side of the NCAA basketball tournament, Kansas and Kansas State were among the field of 64 announced last (MON) night. Both were selected as at-large teams. The Jayhawks' chances of making the tournament were in doubt after losing their leading scorer for the rest of the season. Senior Carolyn Davis injured her knee last month in KU's game at K-State. As KPR's Greg Echlin reports, the KU women struggled down the stretch without her.Eleventh-seeded KU will take on sixth-seeded Nebraska Sunday night at 6:30 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eighth-seeded K-State meets 9th-seeded Princeton Saturday morning at 10:30 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.Elsewhere...in a Division II women's regional final last (MON) night, Pittsburg State defeated Emporia State, 79-67, to advance to the Elite Eight next week in San Antonio.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says 18-year-old voters who attend public high schools can show their school identification at the polls to satisfy the state's new photo ID requirement. But students from private high schools are out of luck. Kobach says his office has received many questions about whether various types of photo IDs are acceptable since the law he championed took effect in January. On Wednesday, Kobach said it would be most fair to treat photo IDs from public and private high schools the same. But he noted the new law specifically requires IDs issued by government agencies, which arguably includes school districts. Kobach says his office is drafting regulations to give more guidance but will allow students to use public school IDs at the polls November 6.

The EaglePicher plant in Galena (Photo credit: kansastravel.org) GALENA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials say pollution from a former southeast Kansas smelter operation is scheduled to be cleaned up next year and the site could eventually be redeveloped. The former EaglePicher plant began operation in 1878 and remained in service for much of the following century. The Joplin Globe reports the 68 acres of the former smelter site will be cleaned up using $6.5 million from EaglePicher's 2005 bankruptcy settlement. The project also will include cleaning up sediment from Short Creek, which flows across the back of the property. The cleanup effort is expected to begin next summer. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment presented its remediation plans to the Galena City Council on Monday. KDHE unit chief Christopher Carey says the goal is to eventually make the property available for development .

Opponents of the legislation gather at the Kansas Statehouse. (Photo by Stephen Koranda)Around 200 people gathered at the Statehouse today (TUE) to protest controversial legislation that supporters say preserves religious freedom. Proponents of the bill say that it protects people who don’t want to provide goods or services to same-sex couples for religious reasons. Opponents of the measure say it’s so broadly written that it provides legal protection for discrimination. Kate Guimbellot (GIM-buh-low), from Olathe, attended the rally with a sign showing her partner of 23 years and their 6-year-old son.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa7cae40000The bill attracted widespread criticism after passing the Kansas House. It has now stalled in the Senate, after leaders there said it would not pass that chamber in its current form.

A state panel scaled-back requests from Kansas school districts based on student population growth or dropping property values.

UPDATE: This plan has failed in committee. / As Kansas lawmakers try to fill a huge hole in the state budget, one GOP legislator is pushing a plan to raise the state state sales tax by a whole penny. However, Wichita Republican Representative Steve Brunk wants to keep intact the current income tax exemption for 330,000 business owners and farmers.

The United States Supreme Court has uphelp provisions in the federal health law that provided subsidies for low-income people to buy health insurance. Essentially, the nation's highest court upheld the Affordable Care Act, which is popularly known as Obamacare.