ExpressJet Holdings Inc. on Monday said it has created a multiphase cost-cutting measure, including a hiring freeze for management positions, aimed at sustaining profitability. (XJT) (AMR) ...
More showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for the Wichita metropolitan area this morning and again later today and tonight, forecasters say ... Highs should reach the upper 80s or low 90s under partly cloudy skies today, before the storms roll in. Some of the storms could be strong, forecasters caution, with winds of up to 60 miles an hour and quarter-sized hail. Winds can be expected to gust above 30 mph ... Overnight lows should settle in the low 70s, with intermittent showers
A timely letter from Kansas may have kept a Wichita lawyer out of jail last week in central Africa ... Kurt Kerns has traveled to Rwanda during the past year to interview witnesses in a federal case in Wichita involving a Kansas man accused of participating in that country's genocide 16 years ago ... As part of that case, Kerns had consulted with Peter Erlinder, a law professor from Minnesota, whose opinions on the genocide were critical of the current Rwandan government ...
An internationally recognized researcher on drug toxicology told jurors that it's impossible to say why patients of a former Haysville doctor died ... Steven Karch testified Monday that the deaths of patients of the Schneider Medical Clinic might have resulted from serious maladies they suffered from, not just overdoses of drugs prescribed to them ... Karch, a medical doctor from Berkeley, Calif., is the author of the "Drug Abuse Handbook" and "Postmortem Toxicology of Abused Drugs." ...