The requests for tips for service are coming more frequently these days, as cashless payment methods with automated tipping options proliferate at checkout counters. To help make responding to these prompts less awkward, tipping experts offer some guidelines. First, it's worth knowing that you can always decline to tip in scenarios where limited service was provided.

TOPEKA — A three-year, $3.9 million federal grant will enable Kansas State University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln to collaborate on a project to diversify the teacher workforce in the Dodge City, Kansas, school district and five school districts in Nebraska.

One afternoon earlier this year, Wendell Yellow Bull received a call from a longtime friend with word of a troubling discovery.