11 years ago
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts has intensified his television advertising ahead of the Republican primary to run a new spot highlighting a state medical board investigation of tea party challenger Milton Wolf. The new ad began airing statewide Friday as part of what Roberts' said was a $350,000 push before the Aug. 5 election. Wolf spokesman Ben ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University is considering a $150 million research facility that would focus on food and complement the planned National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility adjacent to the university. K-State President Kirk Schulz has requested $5 million in state funding for next year to begin planning the Food Systems Research and Education Facility. The proposal was ...

11 years ago
After multiple days of triple digit extreme heat, cooler weather arrived early Sunday morning in Kansas. According to the National Weather Service, cooler weather will persist through at least next weekend. Daytime highs will be in the 80s, with overnight lows in the 60s. The extreme heat did not go quietly. On Saturday Salina tied a record ...

11 years ago
One Salina teen was killed and another was injured in a car crash Saturday afternoon near Minneapolis. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 17-year-old Paige Tope was driving a 2006 Chevrolet HHR headed north on US 81 Highway, in the right hand lane. For an unknown reason she swerved onto the right shoulder, and then over ...

11 years ago
Junction City police are investigating the death of a man who was reportedly run over by a truck. Police Lt. Jeff Childs says in a release that officers were called to a disturbance early Saturday and then received a second call asking for an ambulance for a person who'd been run over by a truck. Officers found ...

11 years ago
A state employees union says there have been more than a dozen attacks on Kansas prison guards this summer, including an altercation with a Hutchinson inmate that left a guard with a concussion. Rebecca Proctor, executive director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, says there have been 17 inmate-on-staff batteries since June. KOSE attributes the ...

11 years ago
Members of South End Kustom in California are chopping a '39 Merc at the 2014 Leadsled Spectacular. Keith Dean grew up in his father's car shop - shaping metal into custom California hot rods. The son of Dick Dean is in Salina this weekend chopping and reshaping a 1939 Mercury. "This is a great event and we ...

11 years ago
President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Kansas City, where he's expected to speak about the economy. The White House announced Saturday that President Obama will arrive in Kansas City on Tuesday evening and deliver remarks on the economy Wednesday morning at the Uptown Theater. The White House says in a release that the free event ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is narrowly divided over whether two brothers needed to have separate capital murder trials for a robbery and rape spree that left four people dead in Wichita in December 2000. The court on Friday voided the death sentences for Jonathan and Reginald Carr and overturned three of each man's four capital murder ...

11 years ago
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts has intensified his television advertising ahead of the Republican primary to run a new spot highlighting a state medical board investigation of tea party challenger Milton Wolf. The new ad began airing statewide Friday as part of what Roberts' said was a $350,000 push before the Aug. 5 election. Wolf spokesman Ben ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says he's stunned by Kansas Supreme Court decisions overturning the death sentences of two brothers for a December 2000 robbery, rape and kidnapping spree that ended with four fatal shootings in Wichita. Brownback said Friday that the decisions in the cases of Jonathan and Reginald Carr unnecessarily reopen the wounds from what he ...