11 years ago
Three bodies and the cockpit voice recorder have been removed from a Wichita flight training facility that was hit by a small plane this week. The Wichita Eagle reports that Wichita Fire Marshal Brad Crisp said the bodies of the people trapped inside a simulator in the building were pulled from the rubble late Friday evening. Crisp ...

11 years ago
Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Greg Orman says a Republican accusation that he called former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole a "clown" is a distortion of his words. Orman is in a tight race with three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, who was traveling Friday with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Dole. Asked about ...

11 years ago
The Kansas attorney general's office has argued that a federal court should not weigh in on the state's gay marriage ban until the Kansas Supreme Court has reviewed it. Assistant Attorney General Steve Fabert on Friday urged U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree not to issue a preliminary injunction preventing Kansas from enforcing its ban. Crabtree was hearing ...

11 years ago
A regional airline that serves Great Bend Municipal Airport is scrapping its daily service to Wichita but adding flights to Kansas City, Missouri. SeaPort Airlines announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Transportation has approved the revised schedule. SeaPort was awarded a two-year Essential Air Service contract at Great Bend earlier this year and began offering two ...

11 years ago
Kansas says its tax collections in October fell $23 million short of expectations. The state Department of Revenue reported Friday that the state had collected $417 million in taxes, or 5.2 percent less than the $440 million anticipated. Since the start of the current fiscal year in July, tax collections have been nearly $47 million less than ...

11 years ago
A squirrel is being blamed for an hour-long power outage in Emporia that left Emporia State University and thousands of customers temporarily in the dark. The Emporia Gazette reports a little more than 3,000 customers of Westar Energy and Lyon-Coffey Electric lost power when a squirrel came in contact with electrical equipment on a transmission line ...

11 years ago
A Saline County Commissioner is transported to the hospital after a single vehicle crash. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, Commissioner Randy Duncan told EMS he had back pain after his 2013 Ford Focus ran off the road and crashed through a barbed wire fence in the 11000 block of W. State Street on Thursday afternoon. Duncan tells ...

11 years ago
At 6:30 AM on October 26, 2014 a Drive-by-Shooting occurred at 829 Custer. Five shots were fired into the north side of the residence, which was occupied by one adult and two young children. A dark colored SUV was observed in the area at the time of the shooting. If you have any information ...

11 years ago
A missing man from Herington is found. Family and friends had been searching for 54-year-old Donald Swiger, who had not been seen since 6:05 Thursday morning. He had dropped a relative off at a house a couple of blocks away from his own home, and had not not been seen since. Family were worried because Swiger ...

11 years ago
An institute at the University of Kansas that serves lifelong learners is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Osher Institute offers classes on a variety of subjects, including movies, politics, history, arts, sports and technology. The courses generally consist of three two-hour sessions, taught by local experts. Three thousand people took classes at the Osher Institute last ...

11 years ago
Inauguration of Baker University's new president has been postponed so the school can deal with the death of a student. President Lynne Murray was supposed to celebrate her inauguration at 11 a.m. Thursday, but that and related events were canceled after she learned of the death of sophomore Sione Maumau. Murray gave brief remarks at an all-university ...