12 years ago
A Hutchinson teenager has admitted burglarizing two churches and a grocery store while he was on probation for a string of similar break-ins. 17-year-old Joshua Hickey pleaded guilty to the burglaries Friday in Reno County District Court. Judge Tim Chambers scheduled sentencing for Oct. 4. Hickey was granted probation in November 2012 after pleading guilty to 14 ...

12 years ago
Just when she needed it most, a northwest Kansas woman who lost her home to a fire won the lottery prize of her dreams: a VIP race weekend at Kansas Speedway. KAYS-AM reports Shelly Anderson's two-story home near Plainville burned down earlier this week. Anderson and her son escaped through a second-floor window, but her boyfriend ...

12 years ago
U.S. Census Bureau data shows the number of Kansans without insurance declined in 2011. The Wichita Eagle reports that nearly 349,000 Kansans under age 65 were uninsured in 2011, which is about 14.4 percent of the state's population. That compares with about 380,500 people who were uninsured in 2010, or about 15.8 percent of the Kansas ...

12 years ago
A Kansas high school coach who pleaded guilty to patronizing a prostitute wants to teach again. Todd Puetz pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor count of patronizing a prostitute and was given a 30-day suspended sentence. His lawyer, Lee Kinch, told The Wichita Eagle that Puetz, a tenured physical education teacher and coach in the Renwick ...

12 years ago
Police in a southeast Kansas community are asking the public to be alert for an escaped python. The Parsons Police Department says officers responded late Thursday to a report of a large snake outside a home. Officers tracked down the python's owner in the same neighborhood. The owner said the snake, reported to be ...

12 years ago
A new executive director is taking over Salina Downtown Inc. According to the organization, Melissa Rose Hodges has been hired as the new Executive Director. According to Russel Prophet, SDI President, “We are excited that Melissa has accepted the position and we are looking forward to working with her beginning in September.” Rose Hodges is a lifelong ...

12 years ago
Four members of the Fort Hays State University marching band were taken to a hospital because of the heat. Lane Weaver, director of marching bands at FHSU, says four of his students were taken to the hospital with symptoms of heat-related illness Thursday during a march from campus to downtown Hays in 100-degree weather. Weaver ...

12 years ago
Companies from Missouri and California have been ordered to pay about $1 million in combined penalties for violating do-not-call laws in Kansas. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office said Friday that Buzz Marketing and Communications of Springfield, Mo., and WordSmart Corporation of San Diego have been cited for breaking "The Kansas No-Call Act." Buzz Marketing ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after slashing two people with a box cutter knife. Police arrested 52-year-old James Fetrow after he allegedly shoved his way into a home in the 400 block of South 12th, and cut a man and woman with a blade. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, Fetrow knocked on the door of a female ...

12 years ago
Kansas is promoting a new license plate aimed at raising money for arts programs in the state. The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission says in a release that the goal of the "Driving the Arts" license plate program is to raise at least $100,000 a year for arts programs. The arts commission is a division ...

12 years ago
An 82-year-old man suffered minor injuries when his experimental aircraft crashed near Emporia. The Kansas Highway Patrol says James Zerkel, who lives near Joplin, Mo., was flying a Challenger Experimental Light Sport aircraft from Herington to Joplin when the plane went down Wednesday afternoon in a creek. Trooper Chris Markham says the accident is being investigated but ...