Jerry Moran on visit to Guantanamo prison: It's valuable for intelligence...
WICHITA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran says his visit last week to U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was an “eye-opening experience.”The Kansas Republican told Leavenworth community leaders in a telephone...
View ArticlePolice identify Kansas City, Kansas, man shot to death outside a barbershop
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Police have identified the person who was shot to death outside a Kansas City, Kansas, barbershop as a 23-year-old man.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1Yngorb ) reports that...
View ArticleKansas lawmakers scrutinize sexual education curriculum
Denise Mead panicked when she learned that her ninth-grade daughter, one of her seven children, was learning about safe sex in her Topeka High School health class, concerned that the curriculum would...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas campus to become landline-free in 2 years
LAWRENCE — Kansas University’s Lawrence campus is getting ready to completely drop landline telephones in two years.Information technology department spokesman David Day says the university is about a...
View ArticleQuadruple murder trial of Kyle Trevor Flack begins Monday in Franklin County...
A Kansas prosecutor on Monday told jurors about the grisly scene investigators found in and around a farmhouse where the bodies of three people were found nearly three years ago.On the first day of...
View ArticleYoung central Kansas boy killed while riding motorized bike
GALVA, Kan. — Authorities say a central Kansas boy has been killed while riding a motorized bike.KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/1OXF9D8 ) reports that 10-year-old Nicholas Ratzlaff, of Galva, was killed...
View ArticleJudge denies Hughes request for more time before his March 21 trial on...
Joseph Taylor Hughes, who is charged with severely beating and raping his girlfriend, on Monday was seeking more time before his trial begins, and he wanted a judge to decide his verdict, not 12...
View ArticleLarned State Hospital resignation comes amid efforts to improve staffing
The resignation of Larned State Hospital’s top leader comes amid an ongoing effort to improve conditions at the troubled facility and as a bill that would allow a private contractor to hire and fire...
View ArticleKansas cement truck operators driving for special tax break
The 170 ready-mix concrete companies operating in Kansas worked Monday to build support in a House committee for an easier-to-claim exemption from a motor fuel tax relied upon to finance city and...
View ArticleSister: Boyfriend held in Mexico death said Missouri woman overdosed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sister of a Missouri woman who authorities say was strangled while vacationing in Mexico said Monday that the woman’s boyfriend told her she overdosed on prescription medications...
View ArticleSenator defends election bill against criticism from teachers union
A Johnson County lawmaker on Monday defended a proposal to require annual votes on the status of local teachers unions — an idea panned by the state’s main union as a distraction from more important...
View ArticleKansas bill lifting restrictions on big cats foments criticism
The slaying of a Labette County High School student by a 700-pound tiger at an exotic animal facility served as impetus for Kansas laws limiting ownership of big cats and prohibiting contact between...
View ArticleMan gets 57 years in fatal Kansas City, Kansas shooting
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A man has been sentenced to 57 years and four months in prison for fatally shooting a woman and wounding a man in Kansas City, Kansas.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1p3O0xW )...
View ArticleWoman killed, 2 children injured in crash in Russell County in central Kansas
A 40-year-old woman was killed and two small children in the car she was driving were reported possibly injured in a one-vehicle crash early Monday in Russell County in central Kansas.According to the...
View ArticleTopeka St. Patrick's Day parade returns to Kansas Avenue
Although one of the three hues of the Irish national flag is orange, construction barriers of that color kept the green of last year’s Topeka St. Patrick’s Day parade off S. Kansas Avenue between 6th...
View ArticleAuthorities searching for man suspected in 5 fatal shootings, including 4 in...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Dozens of officers searched farmland in central Missouri on Tuesday for a man suspected of killing a man at a nearby house just hours after fatally shooting four people at his...
View ArticleMan enters guilty plea in Pittsburg State student's killing
PITTSBURG — One of the men charged in the robbery and slaying of a Pittsburg State University student has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.The Pittsburg Morning Sun (http://bit.ly/1OYrtrr )...
View ArticleVictim killed in Wichita identified as 35-year-old man
WICHITA — Wichita police have identified a 35-year-old man as the victim of a fatal shooting in the southeast part of the city.The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/21j7Mlt ) reports that police say Brandon...
View ArticleAccelerating property tax lid implementation draws support in Kansas...
Supporters of accelerating the implementation of a property tax lid argued Tuesday a shortened timeline will fight current incentives cities and counties have to boost taxes.An analysis by the city of...
View ArticleHesston police chief who killed gunman Feb. 25 says he's no hero
WICHITA — A police chief who rushed without backup into a Kansas lawnmower factory and fatally shot a gunman who had killed three people and wounded 14 more, says he is no hero.Hesston Police Chief...
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