Kansas City Regional Alliance transit alliance sued over open-records request
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A watchdog group is suing the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance, alleging that entity has refused to release documents related to plans for expanded streetcars in the city.The...
View ArticleNTSB: Empty fuel tank likely cause of Wichita plane crash
WICHITA — A preliminary report says a rented airplane with two teenagers aboard lost engine power when it crashed onto a Kansas golf course.The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that a...
View ArticleSen. Jerry Moran backtracks, 'didn't need hearings' for Supreme Court nominee
After eliciting a rash of conservative criticism for wanting to hold hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has reversed course.In a statement sent to several...
View ArticleMarc Murrell: KDWPT Commission proposes changing walleye regulations
Walleye may not be in the top three as far as angler preference in Kansas, but they sure generate a lot of interest.There are the casual anglers, who catch one on occasion, and then there’s a dedicated...
View ArticleKansas City, St. Louis voters revisit earnings tax
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Voters in Missouri’s two biggest cities will decide Tuesday whether to renew the decades-old earnings tax that voters overwhelmingly embraced five years ago but that again has drawn...
View ArticleKansas lawmakers to consider marijuana, medical hemp bills
Kansas Democratic Rep. John Wilson never thought he’d take up marijuana as a legislative cause, but the struggles of a family in his district to get medical hemp preparations to treat their son’s...
View ArticleWorkers return to site of Hesston shooting
HESSTON — It was Alicia Sloan’s first day back at work at Excel Industries, two weeks to the day after she ran out the door to escape gunfire.As the 24-year-old stepped back into the Hesston mower...
View ArticleOttawa County rancher seeing double with 13 twin sets born
MINNEAPOLIS, Kan. — Among the milestones of a cow-calf rancher’s calendar is springtime, when the cute little calves are welcomed to the pasture.While it takes most of a year before the babies will...
View ArticleMissouri man admits shooting therapy dog during break-in
OLATHE — A Missouri man faces May sentencing after admitting in court that he shot and wounded a therapy dog in the face during a Kansas burglary last year.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1N3Kolw)...
View ArticleDry winter leaves much of Kansas in some level of drought
WICHITA — A dry winter has left much of Kansas back in the grip of some level of drought, according to weather officials.Recent data from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that nearly 75 percent of Kansas...
View ArticleMan killed in Lawrence house fire identified
LAWRENCE — Investigators say they believe a Lawrence, Kansas, house fire that killed a man was purposely set.The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/1Y4unBm) reports that Fernando Alvarez’s body was...
View ArticleKansas man convicted of charges tied to massage parlor sting
WICHITA — Sentencing will be this summer for a Wichita, Kansas, man convicted of federal prostitution-related charges connected to a sting operation targeting massage parlors.A federal jury has...
View ArticleAttorney General Derek Schmidt continues to fight Kansas Supreme Court's DUI...
In the five weeks since the Kansas Supreme Court ruled criminal punishments for refusal to take blood-alcohol tests are unconstitutional, the Kansas Attorney General’s Office has asked it to reconsider...
View ArticleLittle passion plays unfold as Kansas Kids wrestle on Easter weekend
Over Easter weekend thousands of passion plays unfolded in Landon Arena at the Kansas Expocentre.None altered world history like the one celebrated Sunday, but for the more than 1,400 competitors in...
View ArticleState Board of Education members optimistic over prospect of gaining control...
State Board of Education leaders are optimistic that legislation giving the body control of a fund to alleviate extraordinary pressures faced by school districts will result in a better, more thorough...
View ArticleSex, hope and prosecution: Agencies fight sex trafficking in Shawnee County
Sex trafficking — the manipulation and coercion of women and children into the commercial sex trade — is the biggest problem facing Topeka and Shawnee County law enforcement, Shawnee County District...
View ArticleNew Kansas school funding plan could increase property taxes
Local property taxes could rise across Kansas under an education funding bill approved by legislators, and critics contend that the distribution of state funding would become less fair to poor school...
View ArticleHutchinson landlords protest city rental inspection program
HUTCHINSON — Several landlords in Hutchinson who registered their rental units under a new city program did so under protest because they believe the program is unconstitutional.The registration...
View ArticleMan awaiting rape, attempted murder trial found dead in cell
OLATHE — A Kansas inmate accused of raping and trying to kill a woman last summer has been found dead in his cell.The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says 59-year-old Gary McCormick was found...
View ArticleSeaman student elected Key Club governor
A Seaman High School junior has been elected governor of the Kansas division of Key Club, a student-run organization sponsored by Kiwanis International that boasts more than 1,000 members across the...
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