1.   Although no such system was available Friday, Kansas and Missouri highway officials are about to build one in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

2.   And in the coming months, Missouri highway officials will start recording disabling injuries more accurately, in an effort to better describe the effects of speed.

3.   Anticipating congressional action, state highway officials have been conducting a highway inventory to determine which roads would be suitable for higher speeds.

4.   Because of this, area highway officials and communities need to make the roadways safer for the older driver, Cooks said.

5.   A new report by a group of state highway officials examines the impact the delay in full highway funding has had on the state.

6.   A program run by federal railroad and highway officials lets states apply for funds to upgrade tracks and rail crossings to improve passenger rail service on designated corridors.

7.   A spokesman for Kansas Gov. Bill Graves said he is awaiting official notice of the ruling from federal highway officials before considering what action to take.

8.   After a motorist damaged the site, highway officials decided to settle the question of whether it was a real burial site or just another South Texas roadside memorial.

9.   But highway officials admit that repairs to the steep road, which leads to a ferry landing, have been put off for decades.

10.   But highway officials estimate that there are tens of thousands of memorials to the dead on roads and highways across the nation.