Kansas looks at shuffling funds to close new budget gap
Kansas is looking at shuffling funds within state government to cover a projected short-term, $45 million deficit before its current budget year ends on June 30, an aide to Republican Gov. Sam...
View ArticleKanas City judge: Teen not to be tried as adult in killing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Jackson County judge has decided that a 15-year-old charged in the shooting death of another teenager won’t be tried as an adult.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1RTjRrM )...
View ArticleTopeka mental health leaders: Medicaid cuts would jeopardize care
Leaders of two Topeka community mental health organizations spoke out against the state’s proposed 4 percent cuts to Medicaid, a move they said will cost the two centers about $1.1 million and will...
View ArticleHouse budget chair calls for special session on K-12 funding
The chairman of the House budget committee Friday night called for a special session of the Legislature to answer the Kansas Supreme Court's call to correct a constitutional defect in state funding of...
View ArticleEllis County seeks help in solving hit-and-run fatality
HAYS — Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run fatality in western Kansas.The Salina Journal reports 22-year-old Dylan Weiser was struck and killed May 15 by a driver who left the scene of the...
View ArticleWoman accused of stealing $25,000 Overland Park school group
OVERLAND PARK — An Olathe woman faces charges accusing her of stealing thousands of dollars from a suburban Kansas City school’s parent teacher organization.Christine Ann Glover is charged in Johnson...
View ArticleOne man dead after Burlington boating accident
A boating accident near the Burlington City Dam on the east side of Burlington resulted in the death of one man.The Coffey County Sheriff’s Office said a 911 call at 7:30 p.m. Friday reported the...
View Article2 Kansas juveniles convicted of battery in bus attack
ELLSWORTH — A prosecutor says one member of Great Bend High School’s swim team has been convicted of a misdemeanor and another has been sentenced in connection with an assault on another team...
View ArticleSome of the best art at Mulvane Art Fair is made close to home
Although the Mulvane Art Fair brings to the Washburn University campus artists from as far away as Minnesota, Alabama, Arizona and Pennsylvania, it also offers an opportunity for some select local...
View ArticleSome elderly Kansans will lose in-home services
Joyce Clark, 82, takes pride in cooking her own meals and living independently. Clark cites volunteer work and voracious reading for keeping her sharp.It also helps that a homecare worker spends about...
View ArticleFour killed in Kansas auto crossover wreck
SEVERY — Four people have died after a two-vehicle accident in Greenwood County.The Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident occurred Saturday afternoon three miles west of Severy when one of the cars...
View ArticleBody found downstream from search area for Wichita boy
WICHITA — Authorities have found a body downstream from where they’d been searching for a missing 11-year-old boy who fell into a Kansas creek.The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/25Hr7UP ) that...
View ArticleRichard Ross, Appellate court 'reporter of decisions,' reviewed scores of...
When Richard Ross retired Friday, “Ross” graced the spines of scores of “Kansas Reports” and “Kansas Court of Appeals Reports,” the volumes defining the appellate courts’ precedent-setting...
View ArticleKansas delegation defends free trade amid questions by presidential candidates
Kansas lawmakers, representing a heavily agricultural state, are defending free trade amid a presidential election race where trade is playing an outsize role and candidates question the value of open...
View ArticleHead-on crash in Greenwood County in southeast Kansas claims four lives
Four people were killed in a two-car, head-on crash Saturday afternoon in southeast Kansas, authorities said.The crash was reported at 2:53 p.m. Saturday on US-400 highway about three miles west of...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas seeks to stop another fiber cable cut
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is working to prevent another internet fiber cable cut that crippled the campus earlier this spring, with some officials arguing for funding to build a backup...
View ArticleHutchinson woman pleads guilty to strangling ex-lover
HUTCHINSON — A Hutchinson woman will be sentenced July 22 for killing her former lover and leaving her body in a rural Reno County creek bed.Jamie Hatfield pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree...
View Article13 people charged in large identity theft ring based in Wichita
WICHITA — Thirteen suspects are facing a total of 50 federal charges after a federal investigation into an identity theft ring in the Wichita area.Federal prosecutors say the suspects took mail from...
View ArticlePolice ID Kansas City man, woman found shot to death in car over weekend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities have identified the man and woman who were shot to death in a car over the weekend in Kansas City.Kansas City police said Sunday that 53-year-old Marva L. Amrine and...
View ArticleKansas City-based Hostess Brands recalls snack cakes, doughnuts over peanut...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hostess Brands has voluntarily recalled various snack cakes and doughnuts over concerns they may have come in contact with peanut residue not included in the ingredient list.The...
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