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After a two-year ban, fireworks will be allowed this year in the city of Hays. The Hays City Commission voted Monday night to allow fireworks within city limits July 2-4. The commission chose in May to continue the ban for a third year. But vendors and residents have asked the commission to reconsider the ban after rain ...

11 years ago
A northeast Kansas organization that helps returned injured animals to the wild is suffering from some financial injuries. Operation Wildlife in Linwood is facing an unexpected $12,000 in repair costs after its well, washing machine and air conditioner broke down in the last month. Director Diane Johnson said Monday the problems come at the busiest ...

11 years ago
Missouri is offering a truce to Kansas in their ongoing battle to lure businesses across the state line with lucrative tax breaks. Gov. Jay Nixon was to sign legislation Tuesday in Kansas City that would prohibit Missouri from offering incentives to businesses that relocate from one of four Kansas counties to any of four Missouri counties ...

11 years ago
A man is in custody after a shooting at a gas station and a four-hour standoff at a house in central Topeka. Police say 51-year-old Daniel Lynn Cregut was booked into jail Monday night on several charges, including four counts of attempted murder. Officers went to a gas station after a woman called to say she was ...

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Former Kansas Lt. Gov. Gary Sherrer is comparing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis to former Republican Gov. Bill Graves. The Davis campaign announced Monday that Sherrer would serve as one of its two senior economic advisers. Sherrer is a lifelong Republican who served as lieutenant governor under Graves from 1996 to 2003. Graves served two terms as ...

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Nine international teachers will be in Kansas classrooms this fall to give students exposure to other cultures and languages. The state Department of Education began the Visiting International Teacher program in 2001. The program allows certified teachers from Spain and China to spend up to three years teaching in Kansas public schools. They typically provide instruction in ...

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A registered sex offender who sent obscene material while he was a patient at Larned State Hospital has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced that 34-year-old Christopher Case was sentenced Monday to transferring the material. Prosecutors say Case used a cell phone to send an obscene video to a 13-year-old ...

11 years ago
Christopher Burns spends most of his working day as an area manger for Jimmy John's Restaurant - but give him 6-seconds and he'll make you laugh as Stormtrooper Sam. The movie maker who posts his work on Vine Video caught the attention of Salina Police yesterday after a customer at a downtown business got a little ...

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Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan says June's tax collections missed estimates by $28 million, pushing the shortfall for the fiscal year that ended Monday to nearly $338 million. Preliminary figures released Monday showed Kansas collecting nearly $5.5 billion in taxes and fees in fiscal 2014. Forecasters whose projections help the state build its annual budget had ...

11 years ago
Widespread rainfall over several days in the past week has slowed the Kansas winter wheat harvest, and hail has damaged the crops in the northwest part of the state. The National Agricultural Statistics Serve reported Monday that 40 percent of the wheat crop has now been cut, well behind the average of 66 percent in late ...

11 years ago
The July 4th holiday is this week, and the Kansas Highway Patrol has some important enforcement initiatives that motorists should be aware of. Beginning July 1, and lasting through July 10, the Patrol will be conducting a texting enforcement initiative. Troopers will be out looking for drivers who are violating Kansas’ texting law, and will ...