By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Kansas State University, which is commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. The university has an official spring enrollment of 21,570 students for the 2009–2010 school year. - Source: Wikipedia

Westboro Baptist Church members are picking up their picket signs and heading to four Kansas college graduation ceremonies.
All season, Kansas State was content to live in the moment.
Kansas conservatives are claiming total victory in the state's Republican civil war after a string of defeats for moderate Senate candidates in state legislative primaries Tuesday.
A government-backed committee of the National Research Council issued a report Friday saying the United States would have adequate biosecurity protections even if plans for a proposed $1.14 billion lab in Kansas are scaled back.

Kansas State University student Greg Peterson and some friends were unwinding at a drive-in restaurant when LMFAO's song "Sexy and I Know It" came on the radio. He groaned.
Kansas State University student Greg Peterson and some friends were unwinding at a drive-in restaurant when LMFAO's song "Sexy and I Know It" came on the radio. He groaned.

The cases seem to be popping up everywhere — and with alarming frequency. Dozens of relationships between teachers and students have been reported just this year, but analysts say it's difficult, if not impossible, to know what is media hype and what is a genuine national problem.

A Kansas community is in mourning after a prominent businessman, his wife and their four children were killed Thursday when their small plane crashed into a swampy area of central Florida.
It has a Republican-led Legislature, a GOP governor, almost perfectly straight-line borders and only four U.S. House districts, but Kansas somehow is the only state that hasn't completed its new congressional map for the 2012 elections.
The Obama administration has put the brakes on a plan to build a new lab that studies contagious animal diseases, a decision that has pitted disappointed Kansans hopeful about growth against New Yorkers fighting to keep about 200 jobs at a Cold War-era facility on a tiny island.
Jean-Paul Olukemi has an idea of what he's about to face when Oklahoma State opens Big 12 play against No. 17 Kansas State: the conference bully.

College football teams traditionally have used September nonconference games to establish their identities, work out kinks and set themselves up for the big games in October and November.