The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off Monday afternoon Nov. 16, 2009, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Six astronauts are headed to the international space station on an 11-day mission.

File - (AP) Author Truman Capote stands in the living room of the Clutter ranch house where four members of the Kansas family were murdered in 1959. Capote's account of the crime and its solution. "In Cold Blood", was a best-seller and is now being filmed in the actual locales. ...

Veterans Day asks us to regard as special people who didn't think they were special at the time of war, and have them explain what they can't explain to those who weren't there. Floyd and Lloyd Simmons were 18-year-old twins from Yates Center when they were drafted in 1944.

The speed limit on Kellogg near Rock Road in east Wichita is 35 mph — and police this weekend wrote more than three dozen tickets for motorists who forgot that.

Every weekday, Kansas.com's Wichita Crime Maps show you all the crimes reported yesterday across Wichita, and every crime reported in your neighborhood for the past week. See them here.

Richard Schroeder helped protect Dr. George Tiller - first as a U.S. marshal and later as a private detective. Schroeder also got to know Tiller on a personal level and thought of him as a friend.

Dr. Perry McCabe photographed this family of bobcats in his backyard in Hutchinson last Sunday. Photos courtesy of Dr. Perry McCabe

LAWRENCE — The most surprising thing about the Kansas football team's weekly gathering with reporters Tuesday was not that the Jayhawks spent a considerable amount of time talking about Texas Tech girls, KU girls and girlfriends of football players in general.