10 years ago
A warm, balmy February day in Salina was a perfect day to leap off a dock into a lake. With the air temperature in the lower 60s, and the water temperature in the upper 40s, a group of hearty volunteers  took the “Polar Plunge” Saturday. As a large crowd of well-wishers cheered them on, nearly 50 ...

10 years ago
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Republicans have elected a state legislator from Wichita to fill one of the state's three seats on the GOP National Committee. The party's state committee picked Representative Mark Kahrs over veteran Shawnee activist Chad Bettes on a 103-79 vote Saturday. Kahrs will replace former congressman Todd Tiahrt. The ex-congressman was elected ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas agency that represents residential and small-business customers in utility cases has hired a new consumer counsel. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Citizens' Utility Ratepayers Board unanimously hired a new counsel on Friday. The person's name was not released but is expected to be made public on Wednesday. The board's chief consumer ...

10 years ago
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - A Hutchinson man was sentenced to 15 years and two months in prison for killing a carnival worker at the Kansas State Fair. Michael Brisco Junior was sentenced Friday for six felonies, including reckless involuntary manslaughter. Bisco pleaded guilty last month in the September 2013 shooting death of 26-year-old Sem Adrien of ...

10 years ago
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas are shaping up as a three-way race between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Hundreds of GOP activists mingled Saturday with elected officials at the state GOP's biggest annual convention. It is only two weeks from March 5th presidential caucuses for both parties in Kansas. Rubio ...

10 years ago
Three area lawmakers were on hand Saturday in Salina to give an update on the 2016 Legislative Session in Topeka. A crowd of about 70 people jotted down questions and pitched them in a basket for State Representatives, Steven Johnson, Diana Dierks and J.R. Claeys to respond to during the 90-minute meeting. Much of the conversation centered ...

10 years ago
McConnell Air Force Base officials say the new Boeing KC-46A refueling tankers will arrive at the base in Wichita later than expected. The first of the new tankers, which will replace the aging KC-135 tanker, will not arrive until the spring of 2017. They originally had been expected to begin arriving early this year, which was ...

10 years ago
The University of Kansas Cancer Center is joining nearly 70 other cancer centers in sounding an alarm about the high number of children not getting the HPV vaccine. The Kansas City Star (bit.ly/1SyWl9s) reports Kansas is last in the nation in the percentage of girls who have received the vaccine, which protects against a virus that ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 37-year-old is charged with kidnapping and armed criminal action after prosecutors say he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend from a suburban Kansas City convenience store and held her captive for weeks. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says Michael Snider abducted the woman from outside a Casey's store in Grain Valley on ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A proposal to build a new veterinary laboratory at Kansas State University is one step closer to reality. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university's proposal for a Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with an estimated cost of $43.2 million. The project still must be approved the Kansas Legislature. The ...

10 years ago
Two radio stations raised nearly $60,000 to help in the fight against childhood cancer. Alpha Media radio stations Y 93.7 and Sunny 102.5 on Friday concluded a two-day radiothon to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Listeners from all over Kansas opened up their hearts, and their wallets, to help in the effort. Calls and donations came in ...