Kansas

Double dose of nasty winter about to smack much of US with snow, ice, biting cold

As the storm moves out on Monday, hundreds of millions of people in the eastern two-thirds of the nation will be plunged into dangerous bone-chilling air and wind chills all week, government and private forecasters said.

Waiter, 21, admits to tainting food at Kansas eatery by rubbing food on genitals, urinating on pickles

Jace Christian Hanson even posted videos of his sick acts online and admitted to the police that he tainted the food served to customers over 20 times.

Panasonic picks Kansas for Tesla EV battery plant, state puts investment at $4 billion

The plant, to be built in De Soto, Kansas, is central to Panasonic's effort to ramp up production for electric vehicles as it pushes for gains in battery power and performance.

Powerful tornado leaves a trail of destruction in US town. Dramatic video is viral

The tornado destroyed dozens of homes and left thousands of people without power as it moved through Kansas.

Hate crime? FBI roped in as Sikh man shot at in US

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reached out to the family of the 39-year-old Sikh man, who was shot in the US. The incident comes just days after the killing of an Indian engineer in Kansas.

Absurd to correlate Kansas shooting and Trump's remarks: WH

The Trump administration has dismissed as "absurd" any correlation between US President Donald Trump's controversial remarks on immigrants and the Kansas shooting incident that resulted in the "tragic" death of an Indian engineer.

Fed's George: size of initial taper may not matter much

A top US central bank official said that the amount of tapering its monthly bond buying programme will not matter much.

Obama to layout his vision for rebuilding US economy

US President Barack Obama will lay out his vision to rebuild the economy in his second term through a series of speeches across the country beginning the same site in Illinois, where he delivered his first major economic speech on the national stage in 2005.

Storms on US Plains stir memories of Dust Bowl

Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding dust clouds.