12 years ago
Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick says Wichita will have to bear the cost if it decides to rename Mid-Continent Airport for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Wichita Eagle  reports that estimates of the cost of the name change have ranged from less than $175,000 to as much as $700,000. Speaking Friday during a luncheon at the Republican ...

12 years ago
The GOP chairman of the House Appropriations Committee will face his first primary challenge next year. The Hutchinson News reports that Barbara Bunting became an official candidate last week in the 72nd House Republican primary. She will face 52-year-old Marc Rhoades of Newton who has handily defeated Democratic opponents ever since he first won the seat ...

12 years ago
Thanksgiving as we know it may be coming to an end. Black Friday shopping, the annual rite of passage on the day after Thanksgiving, continues to creep further into the holiday as more stores open their doors a day early. It's a break with tradition. Black Friday, which typically is the year's biggest shopping day, for a ...

12 years ago
This week Kansas roads will be busy with holiday travelers going to and from their destinations. The Kansas Highway Patrol will mobilize, along with other law enforcement organizations across the state, to participate in the annual Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). The enforcement program is courtesy of a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation. ...

12 years ago
Several hundred bikers braved sub-freezing cold Sunday afternoon to ride through Salina with a special delivery. For the 27th year in a row area bikers collected and delivered toys for Salina children. The temperature was 28 degrees, with a wind chill of 19, when the group of motorcycles roared out of the Salina Central Mall parking ...

12 years ago
An advisory panel has recommended amending Kansas' corporate agriculture law to alter provisions that might be vulnerable to a constitutional challenge. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that members of a Kansas Judicial Council's advisory committee issued the recommendation Friday. They conclude that mandating all partners in a relevant farm corporation had to be Kansans was discriminatory against nonresidents. ...

12 years ago
Another former employee of a southwest Kansas bank has pleaded guilty to embezzling money and helping stage a robbery to cover up the theft. The U.S. attorney's office announced Friday that 29-year-old Ashley Cravens, of Ulysses, pleaded guilty to one count of theft from a bank. The former clerk at Western State Bank in Ulysses admitted that ...

12 years ago
A tractor-trailer has struck and killed a person involved in a two-vehicle wreck on the Kansas Turnpike southwest of Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the victim and another person walked away after the initial accident Friday night. Kansas Turnpike Authority spokeswoman Rachel Bell said the victim was killed upon entering the roadway. The name of the ...

12 years ago
A cold night did not stop a large crowd from lining Santa Fe to enjoy to enjoy the annual parade of lights. The parade, the favorite one of the year for many in Salina, this year had about 100 entries. Nearly all were decorated with feative lights. Leading the way, near the front of the procession, were ...

12 years ago
A southern Kansas school bus driver has been charged with endangering a child and reckless driving after his bus carrying 10 children slid off a road and into a rain-swollen creek. KAKE-TV reports 64-year-old Morris F. Peterson was charged Friday in Butler County for the Oct. 31 incident in which he and the students had to ...

12 years ago
A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at wind farms as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities. Under the settlement Friday, North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp. and its renewable energy arm agreed to pay $1 million. Much of the money will ...