12 years ago
Pepsi-Cola of Topeka is lobbying the Kansas State Board of Education to drop a widely followed recommendation that schools not sell low-calorie sodas. Pepsi of Topeka general manager Patrick O'Donnell says the company has voluntarily changed the products it sells in school vending machines to offer healthier options, even though it meant losing sales. Federal regulations taking ...

12 years ago
The body of a Fort Riley soldier who disappeared while duck hunting on Christmas Eve has been recovered from a Kansas lake. The Geary County Sheriff's office says 31-year-old Thomas Hedrick's body was retrieved Wednesday from Milford Lake. The sheriff's office says Hedrick became stranded on ice on the lake while trying to retrieve a duck he ...

12 years ago
One man is in custody after an apparent homicide in the small Pottawatomie County town of St. Marys. The county sheriff says a 24-year-old Rossville man was found shot to death inside a car Wednesday morning after the car pulled up to the police station and passengers flagged down officers. A 21-year-old St. Marys man who was ...

12 years ago
A Lindsborg man is transported to the hospital after crashing New Year's Day on an icy western Kansas road. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 77-year-old Ronald Johnson was driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck, headed east on Interstate 70. He lost control on the icy road, entered the south ditch, and overturned one half times ...

12 years ago
Authorities in central Kansas are sorting through at least $10,000 worth of stolen auto parts and equipment found at a property in Great Bend. The Barton County Sheriff's Office discovered the stockpile Monday while executing a search warrant. Sheriff Brian Bellendir says the goods were stolen from Russell, Reno, Rush, Lincoln and Saline counties as well as ...

12 years ago
A Wichita man whose wife died from a brain aneurysm this week says he is appalled that someone removed her wedding ring from her finger and stole other items while she sat unconscious in her vehicle in a Taco Bell drive-thru. Danielle Zimmerman went to pick up dinner Sunday night when her pickup truck struck the ...

12 years ago
After 13 years of renovations, the Kansas Statehouse is ready to welcome new generations of visitors to the seat of state government. The project's final phase included an auditorium, a classroom, thousands of square feet of exhibition space and a visitors' center, complete with an oversized map of Kansas. A ribbon cutting will take place Thursday to ...

12 years ago
Two Kansas women are using well-worn American flags to honor U.S. troops and veterans. Alicia Gordon and Anne Newkold, both from the Wichita area, take part in a national project called Stars for Our Troops. It involves carefully removing embroidered stars from the flags. The women then put the stars in small bags and give them ...

12 years ago
The home team is behind by one point with just over two minutes to play. A conference victory and eligibility for a bowl game are on the line, but it doesn’t look good for the home team. They have the ball, but way back at their own 32 yard line. These are the types of ...

12 years ago
Kansas revenue officials say the state took in $3.3 million more in taxes than anticipated in December and collections met expectations for the past six months. The Department of Revenue reported Tuesday that the state collected $550 million in taxes in December, when the state's official financial forecast predicted less than $547 million. The surplus is ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Board of Regents is taking another look at a new social media policy that was devised in the wake of criticism about a journalism professor's anti-NRA tweet. A news release Tuesday says that board chairman Fred Logan is requesting a workgroup to review the policy. Under it, a university chief executive officer can discipline ...