Aetna, KS News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/ Aetna, KS News Washburn announces new faculty members http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/e5ceda57d1b8be368576b5c0408c48c3.html The following new faculty members have joined Washburn University: Sino offers quick carryout http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/cff0d0346f09651f3897532fd1de4e4e.html The Great Wall chain has transformed Chinese takeout in Wichita Locations have popped up all over town during the past few years meaning that no matter where you live Great Wall's fast highquality takeout is just a quick drive awayNow residents on the farflung west side have access to Great Wallesque food and service In January Yan Liu the niece of Great Wall's owners and her husband Tony opened Sino in a strip mall at 135th Street West and MapleIt features the same type of fresh inexpensive dishes served at Great Wall plus a menu of various maki rollsON THE MENU: A nearly neverending list of Chinese favorites made with chicken shrimp and beef Among the familiar dishes: sweet and sour chicken shrimp with lobster sauce moo goo gai pan Szechwan beef Mongolian beef and General Tso's chicken There's also a variety of chow mein chop suey moo shu egg foo young soups and appetizersIn addition the menu includes 15 varieties of maki rolls Kidnapping rape suspect can stand trial http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/9f4482905c3d71752d2754a5f5013627.html A Sedgwick County judge Thursday found Robert Abner competent to stand trial in the kidnapping and rape of a Viola convenience store clerkJudge Eric Yost set a preliminary hearing for Sept 11Abner 39 is charged with one count of aggravated robbery one count of aggravated kidnapping two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and six counts of rapeThe clerk was released outside her family's pastor's home about three days after she disappeared in June Abner allegedly had held her at his north Wichita house before leaving townAbner was arrested in early July in Springfield Ore after authorities received a tip from a resident he had called from a motel there KState named No 2 campus for technology http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/21c5cbdf52187b9bb9c5216e0aa5cef9.html According to a new survey Wildcats are wiredKansas State University ranked second on a list of universities with the most comprehensive technology offerings in a study released Thursday by PC MagazineThe magazine in a partnership with the Princeton Review surveyed more than 360 US colleges Questions covered computer science course offerings and online lectures to computer labs wireless networks and online securityKState was named the No 2 most techedout campus just below the University of Illinois Rounding out the top five were the University of Utah; Bentley College in Waltham Mass; and Pomona College in Claremont CalifKState offers a lot of interesting hightech courses and they have a lot of stuff available onlinesaid Eric Griffith senior writer for PC Magazine Disaster survivors pour into Greensburg http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/c57b9408f98b336d6f667c7a3567dd4c.html Gathered under a red white and blue striped tent were hundreds of people who speak the truth when they tell Greensburg residents We know what you've been throughThey are tornado survivors from Texas and Indiana hurricane victims from Louisiana and families who beat back California wildfires They are firefighters who lost men they considered brothers and World Trade Center construction workers who sifted through body partsAnd they've come to help the people of Greensburg this weekendPeople from across the country enjoyed sausages and beans and rice Thursday night at the site where they will spend this weekend building a 14000squarefoot barn for the 4H at the Kiowa County fairgroundsThe barn is the New York Says Thank You Foundation's annual Sept 11 project The foundation takes on an annual project in a community ravaged by disaster as repayment for help the country gave New Yorkers after terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center Procastinators group performs music with cookware http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/50b26a7d18a150ecc8fee7461643ac49.html Chris Doolittle describes the Procrastinators as three guys three bar stools and a good timeThrow in some cookware four or five huge water bottles 12 pairs of drum sticks two rolls of stick tape and 10 minutes of fastpaced percussion and you start to get a better idea of what you're in forThe Procrastinators whose name comes from a lastminute entry in a mall talent contest will be making their first appearance at the Kansas State FairThey'll be performing daily setting up at whatever location strikes their fancyDoolittle calls the Procrastinators'shows unique fast exciting funand says they're something Kansans haven't seen before unless they were in Junction City three years agoat the Sundown Salute Dolores Powell http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/b4b0e524a70ac924d328571f9fc7e02e.html Dolores Dee M Powell 75 died Sept 3 2008 at Thorne Care Center of Wesley Towers Hutchinson Customers: Westar rate request too big http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/aetna/content/948fa1a83e9fe36bc1c10c08507849d0.html A crowd of about 100 electric customers including state lawmakers from both parties told state regulators Thursday to pare Westar Energy's request to add 177 million to its ratesAt a public hearing at the Century II Convention Center customers complained about high bills rising fuel charges and the elimination of walkup offices for billpayersThe bulk of the crowd was clearly unhappy with the price of power and more unhappy with Westar's proposal to boost its rates by 15 percent an increase of about 1034 a month for the average Wichita customerTwo state lawmakers one Democrat and one Republican testified against the rate hikeState Sen Mike Petersen RWichita said a big rate hike is just too much for consumers struggling with spiraling gasoline and food prices