Category — Wichita, Kansas

Tahir Ahmad, Nate Gregory, Jeremy Jones and Ben Tyson are Wichita entrepreneurs and they are innovators, the name given to members of the 2010 Pipeline Innovators, the state’s yearlong entrepreneur support program for owners of promising technology-based ventures.

Wichitans driving along South Oliver on Wednesday couldn’t help but notice a supersized white-and-blue modified Boeing 747, called the Dreamlifter, sitting near a Boeing hangar.

Should Boeing win the contract to provide refueling tankers to the U.S. Air Force , between 62,605 and 70,706 new U.S. jobs would be created over the life of the contract, according to a new report.

TOPEKA — In January, sales tax increases, eliminating sales tax exemptions and increasing sin taxes found only tepid support among lawmakers.

The state’s child-welfare agency is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a social worker of failing to protect a 23-month-old Coffeyville girl who was beaten to death.

Kansan Meriem Roby Anderson was one of about 200 women Wednesday who received a Congressional Gold Medal during a Capitol Hill ceremony.

A shooting that left one teen in the hospital and another under arrest appears to be accidental, police said Wednesday.

The city’s water utility director, David Warren, abruptly resigned earlier this week.

The second wave of H1N1 is over in Sedgwick County, but a free clinic is open until March 26 for residents who still haven’t been vaccinated against the flu.

TOPEKA — An amendment offered in the Senate budget committee this week would restore $5.3 million in fuel tax revenue denied Shawnee County due to a series of computer errors by officials in the state revenue department and the state treasurer’s office.

A man charged with leading a Wichita drug smuggling ring two years ago fled from authorities but continued to push dope into the city for another year, according to a federal indictment made public this week.

The federal government has awarded grants and loans to expand broadband internet access in south central and southeast Kansas.

The elderly man who was hurt in a two-vehicle crash Monday in Haysville has died todaywed from his injuries, police said.

WICHITA — A 3-month-old boy has been hospitalized with a fractured skull and bruised brain after an apparent home accident, police said.

WICHITA — A shooting that left one teen in the hospital and another under arrest appears to be accidental, police said.

WICHITA — The city’s water utility director, David Warren, resigned earlier this week, he and others say.

Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. has added Wichita businessman Gary Mason to its board of directors.

Stephan “Center Ice Steve” Wright is a devoted Thunder hockey fan. So much so that he goes to games about two hours early, he says, to get an on-site parking spot at Intrust Bank Arena. Wright has degenerative arthritis and walks with a cane. Handicapped parking on game nights is lacking, he and others say.

A man remained in critical condition at a local hospital Tuesday following a two-vehicle crash in Haysville on Monday afternoon.

The City Council updated its scrap metal regulations Tuesday to keep up with increasingly crafty thieves who have torn through vacant homes, city parks and business rooftops in hopes of cashing in at recycling businesses.

The Wichita City Council on Tuesday cut the amount of a loan it gave to prominent downtown developers Real Development, partly as an acknowledgment that one of the projects has stalled.

Winfield’s “harmonica man” is most likely dead — and he may be the victim of a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.

TOPEKA — Increasing the tax on cigarettes and pop would improve health and make money for the state, supporters of the taxes said Tuesday.

Recent property tax appeals in the Old Town Cinema district reveal “a number of procedural errors and policy issues” that the city of Wichita must address as it provides public support to private development, according to a city report released Tuesday.

Wichitans will get a chance to attend five home repair workshops featuring topics such as painting, wood repair and restoration of windows.

Wichita River Festival officials on Tuesday announced their musical lineup for this year’s festival — and a change in the admission policy for the West Bank Stage shows.

Post-Christmas layoffs and a renewed search for work by the unemployed pushed the Wichita-area unemployment rate in January to 8.6 percent, from a revised 7.8 percent in December, the Kansas Department of Labor said Tuesday.

The Wichita City Council voted Tuesday to seek about $920,000 in federal funds for street repairs on Woodlawn and on 13th Street.

Warm weather in March has pushed the Kansas wheat crop faster than in recent years.

WICHITA — The city this morning updated its scrap metal regulations to keep up with increasingly crafty thieves who have torn through vacant homes, city parks and business rooftops in hopes of cashing in at recycling businesses.