9 years ago
The Kansas Contractors Association’s Construction Education Foundation recently donated $23,000 to six state educational institutions. The donations will support education initiatives and students enrolled in construction courses during this academic year. The money will be used for items such as student scholarships, a road grader simulator and manhole covers. The following institutes that will benefit from ...

9 years ago
A Kansas school district has recovered nearly half a million dollars from the estate of a former technology director who's believed to have embezzled district money before killing himself. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2fkXcwZ) reports a federal judge has awarded the Maize school district roughly $490,000 from Ramon Mosate's estate. Mosate worked for the district from 1997 ...

9 years ago
A Kansas militia group says it rejected two men who are accused of plotting to kill immigrants. Those two men, Patrick Stein and Gavin Wright, face federal charges accusing them of conspiring with another man, Curtis Allen, in what federal prosecutors said was a domestic terrorism plot targeting immigrants in Garden City. They've pleaded not guilty ...

9 years ago
The crowd at senior day at the Graves Family Sports Complex on the campus of Kansas Wesleyan University Saturday afternoon had something to cheer for before the game even started. To open the pregame festivities, seniors on the Kansas Wesleyan football team lined up, and marched out onto the field with family members. Before all was ...

9 years ago
The City of Brookville and City of Gypsum both received $2,000 grants from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Community Clean-Up Fund held at the Greater Salina Community Foundation. Both communities will provide dumpsters for residents to use to clean up personal and public property next spring.  The Gypsum Lions Club and Booster Club have also ...

9 years ago
The Salina Area United Way will soon be hitting the streets. Thanks in a part to  a $5,000 grant from the Greater Salina Community Foundation, the agency will soon have a mobile outreach unit. According to the agency, the funds will be used to convert an Eldorado Aerotech bus to be used as a mobile outreach ...

9 years ago
St. Luke's Health System in Kansas City is joining a national trend of providing so-called micro hospitals, which provide eight to 10 beds for overnight stays along with 24-hour emergency room services. St. Luke's says it is planning micro hospitals in Roland Park, Overland Park, Leawood and Kansas City, Kansas. The overnight beds make the hospitals ...

9 years ago
A backlash against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback over the state's budget problems could oust more of his allies from the Kansas Legislature in Tuesday's election. It also could save state Supreme Court justices. GOP nominee Donald Trump is expected to carry Kansas in the presidential race, and Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is all but certain to ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Junction City man has died after being struck while trying to change a tire on Interstate 70. The patrol says 29-year-old Anthony Espinosa died after he was hit late Friday on the interstate. The patrol says Espinosa was working on the disabled vehicle on the inside shoulder of I-70's westbound lanes ...

9 years ago
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating after a 1-year-old boy has died from an apparently accidental shooting. Police said the child, Antonio Rucker, Jr., was injured in the shooting Friday night at a restaurant. The Kansas City Star reports (http://j.mp/2fqltzL) police officers found the boy injured. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police said ...

9 years ago
Results are in from a final statewide poll leading up to election day. The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University conducted a poll from Nov. 1 through Nov. 3 to measure respondents’ preferences in the upcoming election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Results for this poll showed Donald Trump (58%) holds a 24-point lead ...