9 years ago
Restoring state funding for higher education is a structural way to keep college costs down for students, the head of Kansas' governing board of education said after a community college announced plans to develop a degree costing just $15,000. Blake Flanders, the Kansas Board of Regents' president and chief executive, told the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kdWL9r) that ...

9 years ago
A community college has accepted Gov. Sam Brownback's challenge to develop a degree that costs only $15,000. Brownback and Cowley County Community College officials announced Friday that the Arkansas City school will try to develop a program that would lead to a $15,000 degree. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the proposal would require students to complete two years ...

9 years ago
A former worker at a youth center on Kansas' Fort Leavenworth faces sentencing next month after being convicted of sexual misconduct with a 13-year-old girl. A Leavenworth County jury on Friday found 24-year-old Nicholas Clark guilty of two counts each of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated indecent solicitation with a child. Authorities said Clark ...

9 years ago
A Kansas man is accused of fatally shooting a man and wounding a woman in an apartment. KMBC-TV (http://bit.ly/2k7Yqel) reports that Johnson County prosecutors charged 47-year-old Michael Collins Smith of Prairie Village with first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment. Authorities say officers responding to a reported armed disturbance Thursday in Overland Park found 28-year-old Anthony Shuster ...

9 years ago
A federal judge has ordered a Kansas woman to spend two years and 10 months in prison for her role in sex trafficking. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kEfeNl) reports that 23-year-old Tiara Newman also was sentenced Friday to five years of post-prison probation. Newman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Authorities allege she ...

9 years ago
Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers will be out in force on Super Bowl Sunday, putting an extra emphasis on looking for impaired drivers. According to the agency, troopers will be working a statewide CARE (Combined Accident Reduction Effort) enforcement. Last fall, the KHP joined other state police and highway patrol agencies across the nation in the revitalized ...

9 years ago
Two bills before a Kansas Senate committee would make government meetings and records more accessible to the public. The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard the bills Tuesday. One bill, introduced by Lawrence Sen. Marci Francisco and Louisburg Sen. Molly Baumgartner, clarifies a law that requires government bodies to justify going into private meetings. The reason ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Health System is seeking an exemption from a state law that that would allow adults to carry concealed handguns in its medical school and attached hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Officials from the health system testified Thursday before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee. Without the exemption, the hospital and medical school will be ...

9 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after 250 gallons of fuel was stolen from a rural firehouse sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. Deputies were called to Rural Fire District #5 Thursday after volunteers discovered the locks on the fuel tank had been damaged and $550 in gas was poured into a mobile tank ...

9 years ago
Salina Police used a K-9 team to track down a vehicle burglar early Friday morning. According to Captain Paul Forrester, officers found 23-year-old Josiah Hadnot hiding in a backyard at 907 E. Jewell just before 3am with the help of a tracking police dog. The search began after a resident saw a man going through cars in ...

9 years ago
The Washburn University Board of Regents is delaying a vote on a concealed weapons policy, which is scheduled to take effect July 1. At a meeting Thursday, Regent Brent Boles suggested the vote be postponed until an April meeting to see if the Kansas Legislature acts on a bill that would reinstate a ban on weapons ...