CLEVELAND (AP) — The city fired a police sergeant, demoted two other supervisors and suspended nine more Tuesday for their roles in the chase in which officers fired 137 shots and killed a fleeing driver and his passenger.

LONDON (AP) — Nearly three dozen protesters were arrested in London on Tuesday amid demonstrations against next week's Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland.

Victory Christian Academy is launching a new school in Hays this August, with an accredited Christian curriculum for preschoolers through fifth grade. VCA's nondenominational instruction focuses on caring for a child's educational excellence and sp ...

RUSSELL -- A suspicious device was found on the railroad tracks north of the Russell High School football field Monday afternoon. Following investigation, authorities have said the device contained no explosives. The cylinder, discovered shortly af ...

Wilson State Park will have its annual O.K. Kids event Saturday. The program is sponsored by Kansas Wildscape. Outdoor Kansas for Kids offers kids and their families an alternative to sedentary lifestyles. It gives children the opportunity to learn ...

By DIANE GASPER-O'BRIEN dobrien@dailynews.net Some call it a reunion. Others refer to it as an educational treasure hunt. Most will tell you it's both -- and more. Families came from far and wide this weekend to take part in the 4-H Geology Sta ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated two charges against an alleged Somali pirate that had been dismissed by a lower court judge.

By RANDY GONZALES rgonzales@dailynews.net How much the state will cut funding for mental health, Walt Hill does not know. What the executive director of High Plains Mental Health Center does know is those cuts won't come out of the pockets of the ...

By JUDY SHERARD jsherard@dailynews.net Workbook fees for Hays USD 489 students might stay the same for the 2013-14 school year. Board of education members discussed fees and other budget decisions at their work session Monday night. "We are r ...

The crime

Sometime between 10 p.m. Friday, April 5, and 7:30 a.m. Saturday, April 6, someone broke into a house in the 4100 block of West Gustafson, near West 53rd Street North and Meridian. They forced open the front door and removed a safe. The loss is a collection coins and savings bonds, valued at more than $22,000.

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a court has granted bail to Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case involving his allegedly unconstitutional 2007 decision to fire senior judges.

By KALEY CONNER kconner@dailynews.net A native of New England, Dr. Robert Bassett wanted to retire there. It turns out he and his wife will be making the move sooner than expected. After 18 years at Hays Medical Center, Bassett, an orthopedic ...

Edward Snowden, who leaked information about far-reaching US government surveillance programs to the media, calls these programs the “architecture of oppression.” He says it is the public, not the government, who should decide their use.

By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Jury selection moved slowly on Tuesday in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who claims self-defense in the February 2012 shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Selecting a jury to decide Zimmerman's fate in the racially charged case that captivated the United States for much of 2012 could take as long as two weeks, according to legal experts. Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second degree murder and could be sentenced to life in prison if he is convicted. ...

PRAGUE (AP) — More than a decade after many of its animals drowned, the Prague Zoo is counting the cost of yet another devastating flood. In 2002, more than 100 animals died — among them, Kadir, a male elephant that became stranded up to his ears in floodwaters and had to be euthanized — when the zoo was inundated by the worst flooding in centuries. In June, nature has again taken its toll, with major flooding that has ravaged parts of Central Europe, again submerging the entire lower parts of the park again. This time, only a handful of animals were swept away and an army of volunteers are making sure the hundreds that have been evacuated return home as soon as possible. Meanwhile, plans are underway on how to minimize the impact of future floods.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could have avoided civil war by responding more quickly to demands for political change, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. In comments to Russia's English-language state television network RT, Putin repeated that Russia is not acting as an advocate for Assad and blamed the West for violent upheaval in the Middle East. Putin's remarks signaled no change in Russia's position on Syria. ...

Animals Impounds Male yellow lab, 2000 block Metro Lane Found Domestic shorthair black kitten, 400 block West Fifth Domestic shorthair cat, 1700 block Dechant Hays Police Dept. Friday Nine animal calls 17 traffic stops Driving ...

Russia might be willing to grant asylum to Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the extent of the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance, if he asked for it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

KENSINGTON, Calif. (AP) — Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls the revelations by a government contractor on U.S. secret surveillance programs the most "significant disclosure" in the nation's history.

By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - German outrage over a U.S. Internet spying program has broken out ahead of a visit by Barack Obama, with ministers demanding the president provide a full explanation when he lands in Berlin next week and one official likening the tactics to those of the East German Stasi. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman has said she will raise the issue with Obama in talks next Wednesday, potentially casting a cloud over a visit that was designed to celebrate U.S.-German ties on the 50th anniversary John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. ...