13 years ago
After being moved  into a nursing home, Shirley Hopkins' son has been checking up on her house on the 800 block of Ellsworth. There had been no problems with the residence since Shirley left it, until last Friday. Shirley's son went to go check on her home like he usually did, but this time he noticed ...

13 years ago
The Atchison County Sheriff's Office says investigators have found the owner of an alligator that was released into a county lake. Investigators say Waylon Saxton was unlikely to face charges after his alligator, named Cletus, was discovered shot and wounded in the lake after he disappeared three weeks ago. Deputies say Saxton told them his ...

13 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says an 8-year-old girl died when an all-terrain vehicle she was riding on crashed in Republic County. The patrol says Mary H. Horner, of Belleville, died Saturday night when the all-terrain vehicle crashed on a farm field access road a few miles northwest of Scandia. The ATV was being driven by ...

13 years ago
A car and a semi collide head-on in a crash on Interstate 70 in a construction zone in Dickinson County late Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a semi was headed west in the construction zone east of Abilene. A car was going the wrong way, headed east in the westbound lane. The vehicles collided ...

13 years ago
Summer vacation is nearly over for most area students. In preparation of the new school year, school zone lights in Salina were activated last week. Salina USD 305 teachers returned to the classroom on Thursday. The annual Saline County Back to School Fair, where nearly 2,000 backpacks full of school supplies were distributed, was Friday. Salina USD ...

13 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has been appointed to a national committee focused on combating human trafficking. Schmidt's office says he's the first Kansan to serve on the Human Trafficking Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General. The appointment comes in the same year that Kansas legislators voted to strengthen the state's anti-trafficking law. Schmidt has established ...

13 years ago
A 42-year-old University of Kansas building that formerly housed a small, experimental nuclear reactor has been reduced to rubble. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Burt Hall was demolished to help clear space on campus for expansion of the School of Engineering complex. The nuclear reactor was removed from Burt Hall in the early 1990s. But the demolition ...

13 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan.  - Bit by bit, panel by panel, the new copper skin of the roof and dome of the Kansas Statehouse is beginning to emerge from behind a beehive of construction equipment. The task of replacing the worn copper on the building is one of the final major pieces of a $332 million renovation project ...

13 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. - Crews have recovered the body of a 14-year-old boy reported missing Friday while swimming in a rain-swollen Wichita waterway. Police say the boy's body was found Sunday morning a few feet from where he disappeared in the turbulent floodwaters Friday. Police spokesman Lt. Brian White says members of the Wichita Fire Department found the ...

13 years ago
With the death last week of an 11-year-old Minnesota boy, there are now at least 14 children with autism known to have died in the U.S. this year after slipping away from their caregivers. The tragic phenomenon goes by various names - wandering, elopement, bolting - and about half of autistic children are prone to it. Advocacy ...

13 years ago
Heavy rain in Kansas has replenished wetlands that had gone dry along one of the continent's most important bird migration routes. That bodes well for the migrating birds that make Kansas one of their principal stopovers along the central flyway. It also has brightened prospects for the state's upcoming waterfowl hunting season. At the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife ...