12 years ago
Sedgwick County officials working to keep the Judge Riddel Boys Ranch open are suggesting the state should create a new classification of residential centers for juveniles.   The suggestion would create a new tier of residential juvenile homes, with the state paying more for the service.   The Riddel center in Goodard is classified as a youth residential centers ...

12 years ago
The city of Independence has declared a water emergency after a powerful thunderstorm knocked out power to the local treatment plant.   Officials told The Independence Daily Reporter it could be 18 hours before Westar Energy can repair the damage caused by the storm around 8 a.m. Monday in the southeastern Kansas community.   The outage occurred when a ...

12 years ago
Authorities say a 29-year-old woman died when she was hit by a vehicle while riding her bicycle.   The Kansas Highway Patrol says Hayley M. Berrios died Sunday evening while riding her bike on the South Lawrence Trafficway at 27th Street in Lawrence. She was declared dead at the scene.   A 67-year-old Lawrence man who was driving the ...

12 years ago
An 89-year-old Salina woman finally has some peace of mind, knowing that her daughter's grave in Afghanistan has not been disturbed by the war in that country.   Ruby McBee had to leave her daughter's grave behind when she and her husband left that country in 1955. Their 10-year-old daughter, Marilyn, died in 1954 from polio and ...

12 years ago
Police arrest a man who allegedly left a Central Mall store with a bag full of clothing. Officers located 44-year-old Marquis Richardson of Salina, around 8pm on Friday night, near the corner of 9th and Saturn and arrested him on charges of shoplifting. Police say he walked out of the Sears store with a bag filled ...

12 years ago
A Salina man falls victim to a wire fraud scam. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, last week a 55-year-old Salina man answered an ad to help a company do a customer survey on Western Union and Advance America wire services. Police say a company listed as IMC Research Services, sent a bogus check in the amount ...

12 years ago
Residents are being invited to the University of Kansas in Lawrence to help mark the 90th birthday of former Sen. Bob Dole and celebrate his life of public service.   The event Monday will be held at the Dole Institute of Politics where the former Republican U.S. senator's archives are housed. The institute opened in 2003.   Dole is ...

12 years ago
A Topeka man charged with shooting another man to death will claim self defense at his trial next month. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reported that the attorney for 22-year-old William Paul Spangler discussed planned the self-defense claim during a hearing Friday in Shawnee County District Court. Spangler is charged with premeditated first-degree murder in the March shooting death ...

12 years ago
A new work of public art has joined the Wichita skyline. The Wichita Eagle reports that runners created a unique billboard last month during a 5-kilometer run sponsored by Ballet Wichita. After crossing the finish line, runners walked across a 35 by 14 feet canvas with their feet slathered in paint. Ballet Wichita's executive director, Barbara Yarnell ...

12 years ago
Issues have arisen with two figures Wichita is negotiating with to extract oil from beneath the Century II exhibition hall in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that one man has unpaid state taxes, loan defaults and debt recovery judgments. A second key figure in the negotiations ran a company that has a tax dispute with the ...

12 years ago
Swimming, skiing and other direct water contact is banned at six Kansas lakes because of toxic blue-green algae. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the lakes are: Buhler City Lake in Reno County Colwich City Lake in Sedgwick County Logan City Lake in Phillips County Memorial Park Lake in Barton County Riggs Park Lake in Sedgwick County South ...