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The U.S. Geological Survey reports an earthquake rattled south-central Kansas. The 3.6 magnitude earthquake was reported about 5:40 a.m. Thursday about 11 miles west-northwest of Caldwell in Sumner County. Several residents from Medicine Lodge, Anthony and Argonia reported feeling the earthquake but there were no reports of serious damage. --- Associated Press information from: KWCH-TV ...

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Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina hosted a 2-day course this week on how to respond to a "live shooter". According to the school, the training course was taught by Ed Dorff of the ALICE Training Institute based in Medina, Ohio. The first day focused on the five key points of response protocol summarized by the acronym ALICE: ...

11 years ago
There have been two more reports of violence among inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility. Jeremy Barclay, a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections, told The Topeka Capital-Journal that a Lansing guard suffered a concussion and two other guards suffered more minor injuries Tuesday while subduing an uncooperative inmate. Barclay also says an inmate fight ...

11 years ago
New figures from the Kansas secretary of state's office show that Republicans have maintained their significant voter-registration advantage since March. But the preliminary numbers released Wednesday also show a small increase in the number of unaffiliated voters since March 1. The registration deadline was Tuesday for the Aug. 5 primary. The number of registered voters grew by ...

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Wichita State University says it has formed a partnership with an engineering services company from India that it hopes will eventually create new jobs and avoid big layoffs in the aerospace industry. John Tomblin is the director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State. He told The Wichita Eagle that the agreement with ...

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The Topeka Zoo has euthanized a 24-year-old giraffe that had been sick for a while. Jesse the giraffe was euthanized Wednesday. The zoo reported its failing health in late March. The zoo says the giraffe suffered from laminitis, a disease that causes tenderness and inflammation in the hooves. Zoo director Brendan Wiley said in ...

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Police are warning residents of a scammer who's claiming to be retrieving recalled vehicles. Wichita Police Lt. Dan East said that two recent incidents involved a suspect who may have been the same person. He says the man walked into a Wichita public schools office and said he was with a local car dealership and ...

11 years ago
Family members of a woman killed by a teenager who drove the wrong way on a Kansas highway say more should have been done to keep him off the road after he told deputies he had taken LSD. Two women and 16-year-old Dominic Stolfi were killed in the collision Sunday morning on Kansas 254, hours after ...

11 years ago
The final statistics from the 2014 Smoky Hill River Festival Have been complied. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, with its "vibrant mix of outdoor art, live entertainment, exhibiting artists, children's activities, and tempting food" the festival is a v"isible and influential community masterpiece". Here are some highlights: WHO CAME: Festival attendance was 62,860 for 2014, an increase ...

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A Salina man is booked into jail for sending obscene photos of himself to a man and woman last Friday. Police arrested 34-year-old Victor Burkholder on Tuesday for promoting obscenities. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Burkholder contacted a 31-year-old female and 31-year-old male on Facebook, then allegedly sent unsolicited pictures of his genitals to both victims through ...

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Democratic challenger Paul Davis is shrugging off a national Republican figure's suggestion that critics of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback are akin to the evil "Eye of Mordor." Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made the reference to "The Lord of the Rings" Monday during a rally in Wichita for Brownback. Santorum said that like the ever-open evil eye ...