12 years ago
A Sedgwick County judge imposed a Hard 50 prison sentence on a man convicted of killing a Wichita woman while he was on parole for another murder in Lawrence. Tyrone Walker was sentenced Thursday for strangling 44-year-old Janis Sanders in June 2011. He had been paroled in February of that year after serving a 12-year sentence ...

12 years ago
Yesterday, three teens got into an altercation at the Making The Connection group home in Salina. The victims, boys, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were in an argument with a 15-year-old boy. The argument soon escalated when the youngest of the three drew a knife and cut the two older boys. The cuts were superficial and needed no ...

12 years ago
About 75 residents affected by Monday's flash flood in Lindsborg, gathered at the town's middle school Thursday night to get an update from city officials. City Administrator Greg DuMars told the group that having FEMA declare the event a disaster are slim. "The bench marks for initial declarations deal with public infrastructure, either losses, damages or expenses ...

12 years ago
On July 24, Christopher Hallock started to notice that items of his were disappearing. Hallock, 38, reported to police yesterday the theft of a wide assortment of his property ranging from gold earrings to Applebee's gift cards. There were never any signs of forced entry into his home on the 2000 block of Linden Lane and it ...

12 years ago
Kansas concealed carry permit holders will now be allowed to carry their weapons in Wyoming. Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Friday that Wyoming has become the 32nd state to honor permits issued in Kansas. The decision is a result of legislation passed by Kansas lawmakers this year. The law recognizes all valid out-of-state permits when ...

12 years ago
A hunting guide has pleaded no contest to criminal hunting charges, admitting that he took hunters and a television crew onto property he didn't have permission to hunt. Thirty-year-old Adam Gilkey of McPherson, who operates High Caliber Outdoors, was fined $250 on Wednesday for an incident that occurred last December near Hutchinson. Gilkey was ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas has received a $2 million gift to establish the first counseling psychology professorship in the School of Education. The university said in a news release Thursday that it's the second-largest gift to the School of Education. The donor wanted to remain anonymous. Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, said the donor ...

12 years ago
The recent spate of wet weather has caused flash floods and other headaches in much of Kansas, but the rain is also replenishing some lakes that communities rely on for water. In Butler County east of Wichita, Santa Fe Lake and Augusta City Lake both dried up amid severe drought two years ago. KWCH-TV reports that Santa ...

12 years ago
President Barack Obama has nominated Kansas Supreme Court Justice and former Salinan Nancy Moritz to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The White House announced the Democratic president's nomination Thursday, and it immediately drew support from Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas. Moran called Moritz "highly qualified" and said he intends to vote for ...

12 years ago
A federal grand jury has indicted three people on charges of running a sex trafficking scheme at nine Asian massage parlors in Wichita. A six-count indictment returned Wednesday charges owner Gary H. Kidgell, 44, of Waltham, Mass.; Yan Zhang, 49, of Wichita; and employee Xiuqing Tian, 42, of Framingham, Mass., with a conspiracy lasting from ...

12 years ago
A Kansas family values activist says he's pleased with the military's decision to remove pornographic magazines from Army and Air Force stores, but says the rationale fails to make the link between sexual content and abuse. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service announced Tuesday that it was removing 891 magazines from more than 1,500 ...