Hobby drone operators may struggle to fly in Wichita area
WICHITA - Federal guidelines that discourage anyone from flying a recreational drone within five miles of an airport or heliport will apply to almost the entire Wichita metropolitan area because of the...
View ArticleK-12 report urges significant finance, academic reforms
A report prepared for consideration Tuesday by the Kansas Legislature's committee on K-12 education declares the current testing approach fails students, describes the method of identifying at-risk...
View ArticleKansas City's Country Club Plaza sold to joint venture
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza shopping and entertainment district has been sold for only the second time since it opened in 1923.Highwoods Properties announced Monday that it had...
View ArticleShawnee Heights board discusses controversial legislative report on state of...
TECUMSEH — A Kansas Legislature committee’s report on K-12 education met a cool reception Monday night at the Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 board meeting. The report, to be formally...
View ArticleAuburn-Washburn board approves lease on temporary mobile restroom facility...
The Washburn Rural High School baseball facility will have temporary but upgraded restroom facilities for the 2016 season after action taken Monday by the Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437...
View ArticleFive charged in Wichita stabbing death from Christmas Eve
WICHITA — Five people have been charged in the stabbing death of a Wichita man whose body was found in a sport utility vehicle on Christmas Eve.Authorities say 42-year-old Moises Arias-Aranda was...
View Article11 Union Pacific freight train cars derail in east-central Kansas town of Parker
PARKER — Crews are cleaning up after a freight train derailed in east-central Kansas.Union Pacific Railroad said in a written statement that 11 of the train’s 166 cars jumped the tracks around 5 p.m....
View ArticleLawmakers order K-12 draft report rewritten
Lawmakers on Tuesday decided a draft report on K-12 education needs a rewrite after accusations the document closely resembled work done by a conservative think tank.During a meeting of the K-12...
View ArticleAllison Schumm seeks diversion agreement with district attorney's office;...
What was to have been a preliminary hearing on Tuesday for a mother of 17 children facing charges including child abuse has been postponed after she applied a day earlier for diversion in the...
View ArticleOne killed in 2-vehicle crash Tuesday near Milford
One person was killed Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle crash near Milford in Geary County, authorities said.The crash was reported shortly before 7:30 a.m. on US-77 highway.The Kansas Highway Patrol...
View ArticleContract with longtime Cheney Lake marina owner not renewed
CHENEY — The longtime owners of Snyder’s Marina at Cheney State Lake are removing all boat slips and closing up this week after their contract wasn’t renewed.Tammera and Dennis Snyder have run the only...
View ArticleKansas congressional Republicans knock Obama's expansion of background checks
Republican members of Congress from Kansas decried President Barack Obama’s use of executive actions on background checks for firearms Tuesday.Speaking from the East Room of the White House, Obama...
View ArticleElderly couple sent to Lawrence hospital after fire destroys home in Lecompton
A fire Tuesday morning just before noon in Lecompton sent two longtime homeowners to a Lawrence hospital and destroyed the house.The fire was reported in the 11 a.m. hour on Tuesday in the 400 block of...
View ArticleForum fills Kansas' debate void on Medicaid expansion
OVERLAND PARK — Political, business and health care leaders converging Tuesday to discuss potential expansion of Medicaid to at least 130,000 Kansans struck at the nerve center of why the state’s...
View ArticleOnline food directory aims to link farmers with consumers
WICHITA — A Wichita native has developed an online directory of farmers in hopes of connecting them with digital consumers.The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1R9fKgs ) reports that 31-year-old Mikel...
View ArticleAttorney General seeks data on Colorado marijuana in Kansas
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is gathering data from local law enforcement agencies in an effort to measure the impact of Colorado-purchased marijuana on the state.The Lawrence Journal-World...
View ArticleSedgwick County will try to sell former boys ranch again
WICHITA — Sedgwick County commissioners will try for the second time to sell or lease the former Judge Riddel Boys Ranch.The county commission closed the home for troubled boys in 2014 after a dispute...
View ArticleJudge hears KBI interview of man shot by police during February 2015 incident
Brooke Aaron McLaughlin told a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent he didn’t intend to hurt a Topeka police officer when McLaughlin started his car, put it in gear and started to move with the officer...
View ArticleOutsourcing school tests to non-public entity would cost more, state official...
Scrapping Kansas’ state tests, which are produced by The University of Kansas, in favor of a private vendor would likely cost the state more, a state education official said Tuesday.On Monday, an...
View ArticleKansas man sentenced to life for child sexual abuse
OLATHE — A 31-year-old Johnson County man will serve at least 40 years in prison for sexually molesting an 8-year-old girl.Robert Donovan Burton was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with no chance...
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