Local PBS affiliate KCPT Channel 19 announced today that Kliff Kuehl (pictured) has been hired as the station's new president and CEO. The deal ends an eight-month search to replace Victor Hogstrom. Kuehl starts April 6. To work here, 47-year-old Kuehl leaves behind PBS station KNPB in Nevada. Before he shot shows in Reno just to watch them die, he ran the PBS affiliate in Waco, Texas, where he's from. (The Star's reliable Aaron Barnhart gets Kuehl's CV out of the file cabinet in more detail,
Our wayward hip-hoppers James Christos, PL, Jamel Rockwell and the Pyrex Kids hit the road last week for a DIY-style tour. Point your browser to the Anarchy Tour Diary to keep up with the mayhem. The latest installment, sent in earlier today... [emphasis added throughout]
"What up KC?!!! James Christos checking in from the road. Just a little warning...on my entries, I gotta keep it 100% so imma write how I talk. Now that we have that understood, here's the real on everything that's gone down s
Kansas Department of CorrectionsDouglas BeltThis week's feature story details the first case in Wyandotte County that was charged against the DNA profile of an unidentified individual, in May 2001. Prosecutors all over the country have used this technique -- using a coded DNA profile in lieu of a name on charging documents -- in cases where time is constrained by statutes of limitations. But 10 years before the Wyandotte County case, another Kansas prosecutor paved the way for this new use of
