12 years ago
Relatives of four people slain 14 years ago in a Wichita field have formed an organization opposing the retention of two of the Kansas Supreme Court justices who overturned the killers' death sentences. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansans for Justice wants voters to remove justices Lee Johnson and Eric Rosen from the court in November. ...

12 years ago
A Michigan man has bought a World War II plane that has been housed at a Topeka museum for the past 20 years. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the buyer plans to make the O-46 aircraft fit to fly again. The plane recently was moved from the Combat Air Museum to the nearby American Flight Museum ...

12 years ago
A Kansas judge who cleared the way for a gay marriage in the state's most populous county says he doesn't regret his action. But Chief Johnson County District Court Judge Kevin Moriarty says some of his colleagues disagreed with him. An administrative order from Moriarty led the court clerk's office issued a marriage license Friday to a ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has blocked the state's most populous county from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, hours after the first one was issued under an order from a lower-court judge. The Supreme Court issued a three-page order in response to a petition filed by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. The high court said it ...

12 years ago
Kansas' attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to block same-sex marriage licenses, hours after a court office in the state's most populous county issued one, believed to be the first in the state, to a gay couple. The petition asks for an immediate order blocking the licenses, saying a judge exceeded his authority ...

12 years ago
A fugitive has prompted officials in Ellsworth to change the location of a high school football game. Officials tell KSAL News that the Friday night game between Ellsworth and Southeast of Saline which was scheduled to be played in Ellsworth will instead by played at Southeast of Saline in Gypsum. The game change comes after schools ...

12 years ago
Police in Wichita have arrested a suspect in the rape of a 100-year-old woman during a break-in at her home. The Wichita Eagle reports the 35-year-old man was being held Friday in the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of rape and aggravated burglary. Police have not released the man's name. But jail and court records list him ...

12 years ago
A duffel bag found full of items for making meth leads to 2 arrests. Agents from the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force were called to a home at 328 S. 10th Street on Thursday evening after a resident found a bag full of suspicious items and contacted police. Officers arrested 18-year-old Trace Cutbirth and 48-year-old Martin Yoho in ...

12 years ago
A second Kansas county has begun accepting marriage license applications from same-sex couples. Darci Bohnenblust and Joleen Hickman had considered getting married in New York but changed those plans after an Oklahoma ban on gay marriage was overturned by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - which also includes Kansas. The couple, who have ...

12 years ago
A court office in Kansas' most populous county has issued a marriage license to a gay couple, believed to be the first such license in the state. Liz Dickinson, a member of the gay-rights group Equality Kansas, said she was at the county courthouse Friday when the couple received their license. The Johnson County District ...

12 years ago
Schools in Ellsworth are on heightened security as law enforcement search for a suspect from a high speed pursuit who might be in the area. On Wednesday, 26-year-old Scott Lutz led law enforcement officers in Reno County on a chase that reached speeds of 100-miles-per-hour through the northern part of the county in a Chevrolet Silverado. ...