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20 to 30 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea.  For decades, the only treatment was a bulky breathing mask.  Now a small and easy to use device is getting the attention of sleep doctors and their patients. Arthur Chill is a 69 year old with severe sleep apnea. He hasn't been able to get a good night's sleep for most of his life.  He says he wakes up 48 times an hour. The condition deprives him of oxygen, putting him at risk of cardiovascular diseases and leaving him constantly exhausted.

It could cost $100,000,000 to keep Amtrak running in most of Kansas. Several cities are working to keep the trains running. Amtrak says it needs the money to repair the tracks between Newton and Raton, NM. It says the money needs to be secured by 2014, otherwise it may look at traveling through Oklahoma. The tracks in western Kansas are owned by BNSF and have deteriorated. BNSF says it can still use the tracks, but the trains have to travel at much slower speeds, slower than Amtrak wants to travel.

When he was a United States Senator, Sam Brownback's approval ratings were consistently positive. That's not the case during his time as governor so far, according to our exclusive FactFinder 12 Scientific Surveys. Now, Brownback's supporters question those approval ratings and they've commissioned their own survey. Last month, we polled 501 registered voters in Kansas. 34% approve of the job Brownback is doing as governor. That's lower than Kansans rated President Obama in the same survey.

In spring, the days get longer and so does the grass. But along with the green, people will also see a little bit of yellow. "We're just a big white building right off the side of the road," says engineering manager Ron Lefevre. And Hustler Turf Equipment, in Hesston, keeps getting bigger. Inventor of the zero turn lawn mower, Hustler manufactures thirty-thousand yellow mowers each year. Mowers are stacked high off the ground and hanging in the air. About 400 people work at the Hustler to make the high powered machine for commercial and residential use. "With the assembly line that we have set up its about every five to six minutes that we have a new mower coming off the line," says Lefevre.

“Unfortunately churches today have to consider themselves targets like everyone else,” said Pastor Quentin Moore. The Father's House is the fourth church vandalized in more than a month. “These are tough times and people are looking to help themselves- and whoever's doing this-- may God's grace be on them,” said Moore. The first happened March 28 at the Tenth Avenue United Methodist Church when someone plugged up toilets causing flooding. The second happened at Grace Episcopal.  There was damage and theft there.

Today will be the day to get some yard work done or just enjoy the great outdoors as mostly sunny skies will prevail with mild afternoon high temperatures in the 60s and 70s.  The cold front that passed through the state will become stationary across Oklahoma later this afternoon into tonight.   Moisture will be on the increase tonight.  Showers and thunderstorms are possible starting in southern Kansas and spreading northward by morning.  Overnight temperatures will drop into the 40s and 50s most areas.

There's a proverb that says "Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart. "  With the story of Melissa Busby and her youngest daughter it's truer than you know. In the summer of 2009, Melissa was doing her annual missionary work in Uganda, helping build libraries and boost literacy in the African country.  This pastor's wife didn't know it at the time, but God was about to give her an entirely new mission. "Each year that she would leave for Uganda my joke would be bring back coffee and a baby," said her husband, Cody.

Mel Miller had no idea he would take a gamble just planning his trip to Vegas. "I carefully went to every site there was for all the airlines to find out the best,” Miller said. The best deal was with Allegiant Air. Miller says he found two tickets for a little more than $500 dollars. But about two weeks ago, Miller got an email from Allegiant. "They didn't explain why. They just said that they were going to have us fly out and come home one day earlier” Miller said.

In the 2009 offseason Wichita Wingnut's bench coach Brian Rose was doing what most everyone does in baseball during that time:  he was looking for a job.  After being released by Grand Prairie Rose started calling around the league to look for an opening.  Word quickly reached Wingnuts' manager Kevin Hooper. "I had heard through some other people that he was good at what he did and I talked Josh (Robertson) into bringing in a fourth coach, a bench coach for me," says Hooper.

One of the nation's top community college football teams will be moving into a new stadium next year. Dozens attended the groundbreaking on the 6,500-seat stadium for Butler Community College in El Dorado Friday afternoon. The facility will also be used for high school and Little League games. Construction of the $11 million BG Products Veterans Sports Complex is a joint project of the college, El Dorado public schools and the city. Businessman Bob Lane has been leading the effort to raise $5 million for the project.

Wichita State junior Tanya Friesen won the Missouri Valley Conference women's heptathlon title Saturday and Tomas Cotter won the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase to lead the Shockers during the second day of the State Farm MVC Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Cessna Stadium. Friesen won her first MVC Outdoor title in the women's heptathlon with 5,472 points. Her two-day points total stands as Friesen's personal best in the multi-event and ranks second all-time at WSU. She recorded a personal best distance of 124-4 in the heptathlon javelin and ran a personal best 2:19.70 in the heptathlon 800 meters.

A convenience store called "Snacks" in Abilene is shut down after an investigation into the sales of the drug potpourri. The Drug Enforcement Unit for the Dickinson County Sheriff's Department and the Abilene Police closed the store on Thursday. The owner and manger of "Snacks",  was arrested and is currently in Dickinson County Jail. Authorities say that during the months of March 2012 and April 2012 the owner sold to an undercover officer and a confidential informant packages containing two different types of synthetic cannabinoids and pipes used to smoke potpourri.