K-State, KU provide sex offenders lists online
WICHITA — While two universities in Kansas provide online lists of registered sex offenders enrolled or employed on campus, most require that the basic information be provided directly by campus...
View ArticleGrand jury probe costs Cherokee County $28,000
GALENA — Cherokee County spent about $28,000 on a grand jury investigation that led to charges that were ultimately dismissed. The county budgeted $50,000 for the investigation in 2015 after opponents...
View ArticleOverland Park hospital has 18 cases of illness
OVERLAND PARK — A suburban Kansas City hospital has reported 18 cases of a gastrointestinal illness, and at least one of the cases has been preliminarily identified as norovirus. The University of...
View Article2 men convicted of trying to kill Kansas City deputy during robbery
KANSAS CITY — A jury has convicted two Kansas men of attempted murder and other charges for allegedly shooting a deputy sheriff several times while robbing a convenience store last March. In addition...
View ArticleKansas University professor studies effect of narcocorridos
LAWRENCE — It was 2009, and Rafael Acosta was at a party in his native Mexico dancing to a lively traditional corrido, when he realized this corrido wasn’t the old-fashioned kind.“Suddenly I paid...
View ArticleKansas City man charged in January fatal shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 29-year-old man accused in the January shooting death of another man in Kansas City has been charged with murder.Twenty-nine-year-old Lorenzo D. Washington was charged Saturday...
View ArticleAuthorities identify man shot, killed by Independence police
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Authorities have identified a man who was shot and killed by Independence police after a chase.Kansas City police said in a news release that the man killed was 47-year-old Harless...
View ArticlePlaque honors Kansas boy who died at Alabama airport after sign fell on him
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama airport has added a plaque to remember a Kansas boy who died when he was hit by a falling flight information sign.The plaque that was unveiled last week at the...
View ArticleKansas House committee studying quarterly property tax payment option
The lobbying arm of the League of Kansas Municipalities introduced skepticism Monday into a House committee discussion about allowing counties to enter into a system of quarterly payment of individual...
View ArticleOfficial cites communication issues in KDHE halt to grant program required by...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment stopped a tire recycling grant program required by law, the agency acknowledged under lawmaker questioning Monday, prompting an official to accept the...
View ArticleKansas pro-choice advocates seek repeal of telemedicine abortion ban
A coalition of Kansas organizations dominated by university students Monday sought to draw attention among Kansas legislators to a call for greater access in the state to reproductive health care and...
View ArticleOverland Park man sentenced 63 months after embezzling more than $6M
A Shawnee Mission man was sentenced Monday to 63 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $6 million from an Overland Park company, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom...
View Article2 injured Sunday in Riley County head-on crash
Two people were injured in a head-on crash Sunday evening in Riley County, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.The crash was reported at 6:16 p.m. approximately six miles west of Manhattan on US-24...
View ArticleOne child, two others hospitalized in Jefferson County rollover
Three people -- including a child -- were hospitalized Sunday afternoon when the sport utility vehicle they were in crashed and rolled in Jefferson County.A fourth child in the vehicle escaped injury...
View ArticleKansas Senate panel approves budget changes; KPERS, KU targeted
The Children’s Initiative Fund would retain its current structure, a rebuff of a proposal from Gov. Sam Brownback, but the governor would be able to delay pension payments to keep the state budget...
View ArticleUnused Radio Shack gift card holders can obtain refund, Kansas AG says
Consumers with unused gift cards from RadioShack can obtain refunds, the Kansas Attorney General’s office said Monday. The company filed for bankruptcy last year. Under a court order filed in U.S....
View ArticleKansas Sampler Festival to take road trip in 2018
WICHITA — A spring festival in Kansas is planning to take its fun on the road starting in 2018.The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1K7Ln8n ) reports that the Kansas Sampler Festival of the state’s...
View ArticleSenate, House Democrats pledge support of public safety bills
Democrats in the House and Senate endorsed a package of public safety bills Monday to boost hiring of Kansas Highway Patrol troopers, ban transfer of firearms to people on federal terrorist watch lists...
View ArticleKansas Battle of the Bulge veterans to hold what could be their final reunion
Manhattan resident Jim Sharp served as sergeant of the guard at Germany’s Nuremberg prison during the trials of 24 of Adolf Hitler’s most notorious deputies.For 6½ months, Sharp was responsible for...
View ArticlePrivate school tuition bill passes first hurdle
A major expansion of Kansas’ fledgling tax credit program to help low-income families pay for private school passed a key hurdle Monday when a majority of House Education Committee members approved...
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