It sells darts and dart accessories at its own shop and through wholesale, distributors, retail stores, catalog and the Internet to customers internationally. An industry group that toured hard red winter wheat fields in Kansas this week estimated this year s Kansas crop at nearly 393 million bushels. A magazine survey of shareholders and analysts has placed Steve Lumpkin of Applebee s International inc. among the nation s best chief financial officers for the second consecutive year....

Farmers like to burn stubble off bluegrass fields after harvest because the practice increases seed yields and profits and extends the life of fields. However, the Environmental Protection Agency notified state officials late last week that its interpretation of the court's decision did not prohibit the state from issuing field burning permits. Since that interpretation is at odds with the state's earlier understanding of EPA conclusions about the court ruling, Otter said he was reluctant...

His son, Jay, recalled how once the harvest was completed, the highlight of the summer began for his father and three brothers. The boys loaded up their fly rods and traveled in the back of the pickup, covered with a topper, all the way across the Continental Divide to fish the streams in the high meadows, near Gunnison, Colo. The first year, he taught Jay by tying a rope around himself and his son to ensure the young boy didn't get swept away in the rushing stream. But his family wanted...

Moisture that soaked the ground last fall, coupled with water stored in reservoirs during the relatively wet years of 2005 and 2006 have buffered this year's miserable snowpack and runoff. That's when it will be clearer how much the state's reservoirs, which are largely full now, have been drawn down to provide municipal and irrigation water. And that's when water professionals can measure how much groundwater supplies, which are currently nicely charged, have been depleted. The city also...

MJ Patchouli from Regina, Canada writes: To all you jerks putting Danny Williams down: do you have any idea what it means to be a have-not province for years and years? Do you understand that your infrastructure crumbles and the people leave -- do you think that one year of relative prosperity is enough to rebuild? I admire Danny Williams for standing up for his people, which is his job by the way. MJ Patchouli from Regina, Canada writes: To all you jerks putting Danny Williams down: do...