Last year's stimulus bill aimed to pump $275 billion into the economy through grants and loans-and more often than not, small local agencies and nonprofits are making the call about where that funding goes.

Cessna recently delivered the 9,000th Independence, Kan.-produced single-engine piston aircraft.

Laura Ingalls Wilder is known the world over by young people everywhere. Or so we think.

It took five years for Jean Lichty to bring William Inge's "Bus Stop" to the stage.

Frank Connor, CFO and executive vice president of Textron Inc. , says some of Cessna Aircraft Co.

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Cessna announced Thursday, the rollout of the 300th Citation Mustang at its assembly facility in Independence, Kansas.

The William Inge Theatre Festival has named Hoodoo Love playwright Katori Hall the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award winner.

Due to the bad weather conditions in the area, Angel Food Ministries of Independence, Kansas is extending its ordering date until noon on January 13.

A study has found the Kansas State Fair pumps nearly $6 million into the south-central Kansas county where the event is held each September.

A "person of interest" in the continuing arson investigation of the Aug. 31 May Brothers Building fire in downtown Bartlesville was arrested Thursday after a sting operation exposed an operating meth lab in his residence. Also in the affidavit, investigators have learned that Porhte has been seen moving personal property to Independence, Kan., because plans to move there. /p>

State police have found the wreckage of a plane that they say crashed Monday morning off Olamon Island, near Greenbush.

A law passed by the 2009 Missouri legislature bans anyone under the age of 21 from texting while driving.

The FAA recently announced that it will defer canceling 22 instrument ground-based approaches based on comments from AOPA and pilots .

After he saw it, tears came to his eyes. Sgt. Allen Hill of Ottawa was honored during "13 News at 4" Wednesday with a special carved cane to help him continue to get around.