11 years ago
The Kansas City-area medical relief nonprofit Heart to Heart International is sending a team to West Africa to assess how its volunteers could help with the Ebola crisis. The Kansas City Star reports the four medical professionals plan to leave Sunday for a weeklong fact-finding trip in Liberia. Heart to Heart, based in Olathe (oh-LAY'-thuh), provides medical ...

11 years ago
Court documents show a 30-year-old Kansas man accused of fatally shooting a Topeka police officer earlier this month told investigators he had used methamphetamine two hours before the incident. Ross Preston Lane is charged with capital murder in the Sept. 7 shooting death of 40-year-old police Cpl. Jason Harwood during a routine traffic stop in Topeka. According ...

11 years ago
The archery season for deer is underway in Kansas, and hunters are heading out in ever higher numbers. The Hutchinson News reports the state has already issued more than 14,000 archery-alone permits for the season that opened Sept. 15 and ends Dec. 31. That compares with about 19,000 permits issued for the entire season last year. At ...

11 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says about 500 voters living overseas will be told they may have to re-vote in the U.S. Senate race after ballots are mailed to them Saturday. The Kansas election official on Friday directed counties to begin mailing overseas ballots under a federal deadline. The ballots will have no Democratic ...

11 years ago
A suspected shoplifter is caught on video. According to police, on September 8th a black male wearing dark clothing entered the Dollar General at 654 South Broadway. The suspect removed a ball cap from the store without paying for it. Images of the suspect were caught on store security video. If you can identif the man ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Corporation Commission this week ordered its staff to shut down and seal an oil company's wells, saying it reaped more than $1 million from illegal drilling operations. The Wichita Eagle reports Viva International Inc. was also issued a $75,000 fine by the state commission on Thursday. According to commission records, the company has been penalized ...

11 years ago
A Lincoln, Nebraska man is arrested on a warrant for theft and forgery. Salina Police say 25-year-old Trevor Lomison was taken into custody on Thursday in connection to stolen checks. Police allege that back in July of 201,  he removed checks from a Salina home in the 700 block of Harold, then forged the victim's name on ...

11 years ago
Between 2:00 PM on August 2, 2014 and 9:20 AM on August 3, 2014, a burglary was committed at Midwest Gutter, 248 N. Chicago. The padlocks for a gate, the front door to the business and off of a flat bed trailer were cut. Three Dewalt DCD771C2 Drills, four Little Giant ladders and two Omni ...

11 years ago
The final painting of renowned Kansas artist Birger Sandzen is coming home this weekend. The painting, "Smoky Hill River Scene," will be officially donated to the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg on Saturday. Sandzen was an early leader in Kansas art, creating mostly in impressionism and post-impressionism scenes of the prairie. The Lindsborg museum has about ...

11 years ago
Lawrence police say they have identified several suspects in vandalism that included a racial slur at Lawrence High School's football stadium. Police say the vandalism, which was found Thursday, included a racial epithet written with shaving cream. Bleachers were egged and other damage was done at the stadium the day before a rivalry game between Lawrence ...

11 years ago
Democratic nominee Paul Davis has named a dozen new economic advisers for his campaign for governor and is promising to hold summits across Kansas if he's elected. Davis held a news conference Thursday in Lenexa to announce the appointments of what he's calling "economic sector champions" to advise him. Davis says they'll hold summits during his first ...