12 years ago
Fort Riley is ready for Operation Santa Claus. According to the Army, the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley are once again beginning their annual Operation Santa fundraising event with a ceremony at 10 a.m. this Wednesday at Operation Santa headquarters, located at 261 Stuart Ave. on Fort Riley's Main Post. Operation Santa is an annual program. ...

12 years ago
A Sedgwick County judge has granted probation for a 31-year-old Wichita woman whose 6-year-old son died in crash while she was driving drunk. Crystal Ross pleaded guilty in September to involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence, which usually carries a sentence of about three years in prison. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Ross lost control of ...

12 years ago
A 44-year-old Kansas man convicted for the second time of sexual offenses involving children has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. The Hutchinson News reports Douglas D. Peterman was sentenced Thursday in Hodgeman County court to the mandatory sentence. Peterman was found guilty in October of three counts ...

12 years ago
Nine chiefs with the Topeka Fire Department no longer get overtime and call back pay. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the change took effect Saturday and is an attempt to correct the longtime practice of giving battalion chiefs and shift commanders overtime and callback benefits. Federal labor standards exempt them from the extra pay. Last year, the 11 ...

12 years ago
No injuries were reported after a single-engine plane crash landed shortly after takeoff in northern Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the aircraft had just taken off from Blosser Municipal Airport in Concordia on Saturday morning when it stalled and crashed while making an emergency landing. The plan missed the runway by less than a mile. The ...

12 years ago
Funeral services are Thursday for a 35-year-old Kansas soldier killed in Afghanistan. Army Sgt. 1st Class Forrest Warren Robertson, of Westmoreland, died  Sunday while deployed in the Logar province of Afghanistan. The Defense Department says Robertson died of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit. He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, ...

12 years ago
A Salina man's documentary about a World War II airman is debuting at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, part of a three-year exhibit telling the story of the U.S. role in the war. Phil Black's 90-minute documentary tells the story of Leo Perkins, a 95-year-old veteran who served on a B-17 over the skies ...

12 years ago
A truck driver is hurt crashing into multiple cows on a dark interstate highway. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 57-year-old Troy Smith of Wichita was driving a semi pulling two trailers west on Interstate 70. He struck a cow in the road. Smith lost control of the vehicle, veered into the ditch, hitting other ...

12 years ago
A drowsy driver is hurt in a single-vehicle crash along Interstate 70. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 70-year-old William McKinley fom Goddard was driving a pickup truck headed west when he drifted off the right hand side of roadway and entered the north ditch after falling asleep. McKinley woke up and attempted to steer ...

12 years ago
Avid bird hunters will be in the field Saturday as the Kansas pheasant and quail seasons open. It’s a time-honored tradition where spending time with friends and family, renewing acquaintances with landowners, and experiencing the Kansas countryside becomes more important than the number of birds bagged. While the extended severe drought was broken this summer in ...

12 years ago
he Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the capital murder conviction and life sentence of a Montgomery County man. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the court rejected Christopher M. Lowrance's argument that he had not attempted to rape the victim, which is one of the standards necessary to establish capital murder. Lowrance was convicted in the 2007 death of ...