11 years ago
Topeka police have found a woman's body while detaining a man who was running around his neighborhood naked. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that neighbors called police Wednesday morning to report that the nude man was covered in blood and yelling as he ran up and down the street. Police Lt. Chuck Haggard says it took several police ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a stolen car. Staff at Joe's Auto Mart located at 1814 Hageman, contacted police after an inventory revealed a car was missing from the lot. Police say a silver, 2004 Saturn Ion was stolen sometime between Monday at 5pm and Tuesday morning at 9am. Employees told officers the keys were missing from inside ...

11 years ago
An argument sparks a woman to throw a cell phone at a man and slam a kitten against the wall. Salina Police arrested 20-year-old Ashley Morris on charges that include domestic battery, animal cruelty and damage to property. A 19-year-old male told officers who responded to the Chapel Ridge Apartments on Monday that the woman hit him ...

11 years ago
Family and friends are searching for an Abilene man who has been missing for over two months. 42-year-old Jason Southern has been missing since July 12th. He was last seen at the Sunflower Apartments in Abilene. The last known person to see him saw him leave on foot. Southern has a cross tattoo on his left forearm, ...

11 years ago
A Kansas agriculture employer is reducing its workforce. AGCO Corporation announced Wednesday the reduction of its workforce by 111 cumulative positions at its Beloit and Hesston facilities. "The agriculture economy has always been cyclical, marking time with historic ebbs and flows that have caused industry leaders to adapt accordingly," said Dennis Branch, vice president ...

11 years ago
Kansas City, Kansas, police say they've detonated what appeared to be a pipe bomb that a 4-year-old boy found near his bus stop and brought home. Authorities say the boy's grandfather called police Tuesday after the child kicked the device up a hill and down a street on his way home from school. A witness says ...

11 years ago
The Topeka Zoo has temporarily postponed a black bear exhibit after adopting a second orphaned cub. The zoo took in a female cub named Valor this month who had been orphaned in Alaska. Zookeepers on Tuesday introduced her to their other cub, Independence. The exhibit tours have been postponed so the animals can get used to each ...

11 years ago
The Sedgwick County Zoo says a 19-year-old lioness has died. The zoo's executive director says that the South African lioness named Nemesis died Tuesday. Necropsy results haven't been released, but the director says recent tests indicated her kidneys were failing. Nemesis came to Wichita in 2000 for the opening of the lion exhibit from the Oklahoma City ...

11 years ago
Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is coming to Kansas to stump for Sen. Pat Roberts' re-election campaign. A person familiar with the Roberts campaign told The Associated Press that Palin will be at a pancake breakfast in Independence on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the ...

11 years ago
Federal regulators plan to meet with Wolf Creek nuclear plant officials next month to discuss long-standing design issues with the cooling system at the eastern Kansas facility. The meeting is scheduled Oct. 2 at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions' office in Arlington, Texas. The public will be allowed to ask questions, and can phone in to participate. The ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University has been awarded a $50 million federal grant for a global food security project. The award was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Kansas State will use the funds to establish a Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification. The government's Feed the Future program funds labs at colleges and ...