http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/ Appanoose, KS News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/35e52440f2d77a84cc72b7271d7461ea.html A group of electric utilities in Kansas has so far been unable to resolve differences with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over how to proceed with repairs to facilities damaged in Decembers ice storm http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/afe392f1607577bc3aa1e48bbef6b4c8.html LAWRENCE Kansas basketball fans who choose to spend their Labor Day weekend following the Jayhawks as they play three exhibition games in Canada may think their team has been taken over by impostors http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/67768e1e905147fa647a448ec10727a1.html Kansas basketball fans who choose to spend their Labor Day weekend following the Jayhawks as they play three exhibition games in Canada may think their team has been taken over by impostorsKU coach Bill Self said he has spent no time coaching defense in the 10 practices leading up to the trip to Ottawa The Jayhawks focused on offense but they will still be playing without about 50 sets that the team used in winning the national championship last seasonIn one week you cannot get how you're going to guard and how you're going to playSelf said We've historically gotten guys to guard I think every coach would tell you it's easier to get guys to guard than it is to score We just want to give them a base on how we're going to do things offensivelyWhen Self says a base that's exactly what he meansWe're not running anythingSelf said We're running our foundation If they can do that they'll be able to tweak it as they go It's brainfreeze time with some guys Everything is so new and even though it's not complicated to us it's still foreign to them http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/25f5b119817047d3ae5381355d948432.html With time running out a 100000 donation from billionaire Bill Koch saved the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame which says it promises to do a better job of communicating to legislators that it deserves fundingHall president and chief executive Ted Hayes said in a news conference Friday that the donation will allow the hall to remain in a cityowned building on North Mead in Old TownThe Old Town entertainment district is the right spot for the hall Hayes said Most people who see the hall's artifacts and exhibits come from outside the Wichita areaWith the 100000 donation from the winning skipper of the 1992 America's Cup who was inducted in 2004 the hall avoided eviction for failure to pay its rent to the city The eviction could have occurred Sept 5 if the money had not been paidOn Thursday Hayes delivered a 97600 payment to the city http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/717691781c287dbdb9d333dde1eb8e8e.html General Motors Corp has started to offer early retirement packages to selected whitecollar workers as part of a plan to cut 15 percent of its salaried jobs in the US and Canada http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/c255d37e955ba02fe01ac72e46ad6484.html India39;s economic growth slowed to 79 percent in the AprilJune quarter down from 92 percent in the same period last year amid a slump in manufacturing the government said Friday http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/df34cc20dc84ab83cbfefed3175702f6.html Sen Tom Coburn ROkla has been checking up on the attendance records of federal employees And he doesnt like what hes found http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/kansas/appanoose/content/903a919beb2263f38f537b425b78ad16.html Associated Press August 29 2008 9:34 PM ET TOPEKA Kan AP A Kansas utilities collective is trying to resolve its dispute with FEMA over repairs for facilities damaged in December's ice