Jackson County jury convicts second KC man in 2014 killing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities say a second Kansas City man has been convicted in a 2014 killing.The Jackson County prosecutor’s office says 22-year-old Antonio Golston was found guilty Thursday of...
View ArticleFormer Missouri man admits to $2.25M internet steroids distribution
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former Missouri man has pleaded guilty in a $2.25 million conspiracy to make anabolic steroids and sell them online.The U.S. attorney’s office says 28-year-old Michael Peters, of...
View ArticleJuan Manuel Santos, Colombian president and KU graduate, wins Nobel Peace Prize
The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner leads Colombia, negotiated a historic peace deal with guerrilla rebels — and graduated from the University of Kansas.Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on...
View ArticleLeaders congratulate Colombian president who graduated from KU for Nobel prize
Leaders, rights activists and past Nobel laureates from Latin America and the world weighed in early on the news that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize: Why KU graduate Juan Manuel Santos
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his ongoing efforts to end a five-decade-long civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people.The prize came to...
View ArticleCortez Timley, already charged with 2014 Topeka murder, charged with 2012...
During his first appearance hearing on Friday, Cortez Tyrell Timley, 27, heard a Shawnee County District judge tell him he was being charged with the shooting death four years ago of Geovani Plakio,...
View Article'Dory' will be found on Washburn stadium's jumbotron
Dory, Disney-Pixar’s forgetful fish, will swim through Washburn University’s Moore Bowl after dark Saturday to help collect food for those who need it.“Finding Dory,” this summer’s sequel to 2003’s...
View ArticleKU responds to concerns that Black Lives Matter posters were torn down
An advisory group of faculty, staff and students at The University of Kansas is calling on the institution to apply its policies with consistency after Black Lives Matter posters were recently pulled...
View ArticleJonathan Maldonado-Vasquez makes plea in 2014 slaying, armed robbery
Two days before his 38th birthday, Jonathan Emil Maldonado-Vasquez pleaded no contest to fatally shooting a Shawnee County man during a home invasion in 2014.Maldonado-Vasquez made pleas to voluntary...
View ArticleReport: Nonfarm Kansas jobs to increase in 2017
A recent Wichita State University report says Kansas could see more than 12,500 new nonfarm jobs in the coming year.Wichita State business researchers announced that the rate of growth in nonfarm jobs...
View ArticleColumbia police union sues city over public records requests
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A union representing Columbia police officers is suing the city after it refused to release some public records and asked for what the union called “exorbitant” fees to fulfill the...
View ArticleMissouri man sentenced to more than 2 years for pipe bomb case in Kansas
LEAVENWORTH — A 32-year-old Missouri man faces more than two years in prison after being convicted of charges stemming from a pipe bomb explosion in Leavenworth.Simon Nigel Pohl of St. Joseph was...
View ArticleCouple buys former Kansas plantation near Nickerson
HUTCHINSON — A couple has bought a former central Kansas plantation that was once a large shipping point for fruit between the Missouri River and California.The 1,260-acre Yaggy Plantation near...
View ArticleDay of the Dead street fair to enliven NOTO
A Mexican holiday in honor of the dead once again will get Topeka’s NOTO Arts District lively Saturday when the Tonantzin Society stages a street fair to kick off its fifth annual Dia de los Muertos...
View ArticleMan who was deported 10 times since 2010 faces Kansas charge
JUNCTION CITY — A man from Mexico who had been deported from the U.S. 10 times in the last six years faces charges accusing him of raping a child in Kansas.Tomas Martinez-Maldonado is jailed in Geary...
View ArticleKansas Republicans call Donald Trump's comments 'disgusting,''offensive' and...
Kansas Republicans admonished their party’s presidential nominee Saturday after a video surfaced a day earlier showing Donald Trump making lewd sexual comments about a married woman he was attempting...
View ArticleTwo Kansas men killed in small plane crash near Eaton
DENVER — Federal air crash investigators say a pilot was unfamiliar with his plane’s fuel system and pilot error contributed to a 2015 propeller plane crash near Eaton that left two Kansas men dead.The...
View ArticleWichita State to convert old campus building to makerspace
WICHITA — Wichita State University plans to renovate the second-oldest building on campus to include an arts-themed makerspace that will provide tools and space for entrepreneurs and innovators from...
View ArticleChancellor Gray-Little: KU can't ban concealed guns in sensitive areas
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas’ chancellor knows firing a gun on campus areas with pressurized gas cylinders, rocket fuel and other combustibles might be disastrous, though she frets the school...
View ArticleHula hoop sets Topeka-bound Gordon Lightfoot's career in motion
It was the hula hoop that set Gordon Lightfoot’s songwriting career in motion.Although he had been performing since age 5, Lightfoot, who is regarded as Canada’s greatest songwriter, didn’t write his...
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