City of Wichita cracks down on sales of drug paraphernalia
WICHITA -- Wichita police have been cracking down on the sale of drug paraphernalia at local businesses.Complaints from the community led to the recent crackdown on some products sold at new vape shops...
View ArticleMan rescued after being trapped for hours in feed lot grain bin near McPherson
MCPHERSON -- A McPherson County official says that a man was rescued Friday after being trapped for hours in a grain bin.Emergency crews responded around 11:30 a.m. Friday to a report that a man in his...
View ArticleBlack Hawk helicopters deployed for Kansas wildfire
MEDICINE LODGE — Firefighters trying to snuff out the biggest wildfire in Kansas history are getting help from military helicopters — and a potential assist from looming rain or snow.Four UH-60 Black...
View ArticleMan ordered to stand trial in Kansas shooting death
KANSAS CITY — A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been ordered to stand trial in connection with a shooting death during a robbery attempt last year.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/25pOWOu) reports that...
View ArticleKansas marijuana advocate sues state over son's removal
WICHITA — A western Kansas woman is suing the state and some of the agencies involved in questioning and removing her 11-year-old son from her home after he spoke up at school about her possessing and...
View ArticlePoularity of Ottawa photographer John Gladman's pin-up art explodes
OTTAWA — While seeking a foxhole in 2006-07 to keep from being another economic casualty of the Great Recession, photographer John Gladman stumbled across an explosive business idea.VideoIcon: off
View ArticleFarmers struggle as incomes, prices drop
Kansas net farm income was cut in half between 2013 and 2014 — dropping from $5.92 billion to $2.93 billion — and agriculture leaders are predicting more of the same for this year.Grain prices have...
View ArticleKansas Court of Appeals: Wrongful death lawsuit against Larned State Hospital...
A wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit against Larned State Hospital will move forward after the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling last week.Dustan Wilson, 28,...
View ArticleRep. Lynn Jenkins bill would drop 250K people from health care coverage, save...
Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins would cause as many as 250,000 people to lose health insurance coverage and would save the federal government $61 billion, according to the...
View ArticleKansas weighing rules for handling eyewitnesses to crimes
Topeka resident Joe Jones was walking early one August morning in 1985 when he was stopped by a police officer because he fit the description of someone who assaulted a woman the day before. Jones was...
View ArticleJudge: Confession to be admissible in Salina murder case
SALINA — A central Kansas judge has ruled that a supposed confession by one of five people accused in the killing of a teenager is admissible as evidence during his scheduled May trial.The Salina...
View ArticleCrews fighting Kansas wildfires get assist from snow, rain
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Firefighters grappling with the biggest wildfire in Kansas history got a welcomed Easter assist from pre-dawn snowfall over the hardest-hit area, though the looming prospect of...
View ArticleKansas native Amy Fleury chosen as inaugural Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award...
Amy Fleury’s poems range from lyricism about the Kansas prairie she grew up on to descriptions of her father’s battle with cancer. All are deeply personal.Fleury, a former Washburn University professor...
View ArticleFour Shawnee County legislators share insights on 2016 session
The Legislature answered the Kansas Supreme Court by tossing a bill adjusting K-12 public school funding on the desk of Gov. Sam Brownback before putting Topeka in the rear-view mirror.The House and...
View ArticleAuburn-Washburn to lease six 71-person buses, save $95,000
The six 71-passenger buses that will be leased to Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437’s 94-bus fleet in April are expected to save the district nearly $100,000 in capital outlay costs during...
View ArticleActivists lobby Kansas City Federal Reserve official on interest rates
WICHITA — Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George says she advocates for “a very slow process” of getting interest rates back to something normal, while maintaining the recovery.George...
View ArticleDamage to cable cuts off Internet access at KU and interrupts state math,...
Thousands of elementary, middle and high-school students taking annual standardized tests in 17 states Tuesday were interrupted when damage to a major fiber cable in Lawrence cut off Internet services...
View ArticleNational Democrats see Rep. Kevin Yoder as vulnerable with Trump as nominee
The campaign operation of U.S. House Democrats is eyeing Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder, believing that Donald Trump winning the GOP presidential nomination could prove toxic to the suburban Kansas City...
View ArticleNebraska cattle producers to donate hay and fencing to help Kansas wildfire...
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska cattle producers will be donating hay and fencing and other supplies to victims of the massive wildfire that has blackened land and destroyed buildings along the Oklahoma-Kansas...
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