The University of Kansas Endowment shrunk over the past year, reflecting the turmoil in the stock market.

Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen (0) gets past Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll (1) during the second half of their NCAA college basketball game in Manhattan, Kan., Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. Pullen sco…

Marcus Booker went to his son’s Biddy Basketball game Saturday morning, and he stopped at a McDonald’s restaurant around 10:30 a.m.

The 30-year-old Cargill utility operator talked to his wife about 11 a.m., and the couple were planning to see the movie “Not Easily Broken” that night.

After the brief telephone conversation with his wife, no one is sure what happened to Booker or the silver Mitsubishi he was driving. Neither has been seen since.

Booker was being treated for lupus, and Wichita police said Wednesday that they feared the pain he was feeling from the disease might prompt him to try to harm himself. They issued a public plea for help in finding him.

Police said blood was found at a Kechi cemetery where Booker’s grandmother is buried — a grave site that Booker often visited. And there was blood on Booker’s cell phone when a Harvey County farmer found it Monday in a field more than 20 miles north of the cemetery.

Astronauts on the international space station are looking at their longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission.

Drivers urged to avoid southbound lanes.

A Raytown man dies after the boat he and another fisherman were using capsizes on Truman Lake.

Digital signal test reveals who needs converter box

Wichita residents whose television sets went blank during last night’s local newscasts don’t need to visit the repair shop, but they might need to buy a TV converter box if they want reception come Feb. 18.

In preparation for the conversion to all-digital TV, local broadcast stations tested their digital signals Wednesday night by turning off their analog signals for a few minutes during the evening news broadcasts.

Some stations will repeat the tests in January. KPTS, Channel 8 will switch to an all-digital signal Jan. 5.

At KSN, Channel 3, the test seemed to run smoothly, general manager Al Buch said. He said the one surprise was that 20 percent of the callers to the station’s hotline wanted to know how to set up their digital televisions.

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Turnpike Authority would be abolished and its powers and functions shifted to the state Department of Transportation under a bill before the Legislature.Rep. Bill Feuerborn …

A group of veterans who were opposed to placing a memorial to South Vietnamese soldiers in Wichita’s veteran’s park met Sunday in Mulvane.

Police said a St. Louis woman was jailed after suspected marijuana was found in her shoe while she was visiting an inmate at a state prison in south-central Missouri.

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