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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — On a Sunday in December 1937, the U.S.S. Panay was patrolling the Yangtze River in China after rescuing American diplomats and journalists from the country torn by fighting between Chinese troops and invading Japanese forces. A...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — In a snap, Jamie L. McGuire would pull on her U.S. Air Force uniform and return to the nearly 14-year career and camaraderie she loved in the service. At the same time, she's locked in a battle with the injuries she suffered durin...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lt. John Dean Armstrong, a dashing pilot in the elite Flying Tigers fighter group in World War II, will come home to Kansas in June the year he would have turned 100. Armstrong, the U.S. Navy pilot turned Chinese air force f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The fact Gary Bayens wrote "Frontier Kansas Jails" is a natural fit. "I'm just a jail guy," said Bayens, a former corrections officer and administrator. "It just gets in your blood. I enjoyed working there. It's a tough place to w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Colorado lawyer who litigated a civil settlement for the widower of a Washburn University art professor, who was killed in 2015 when her bicycle was struck by a pickup truck as she rode on a Crawford County road, had a series o...