9 years ago
Rescue teams have found the body of a 17-year-old boy who drowned in a small eastern Kansas lake. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2shZrbo) that the teen was swimming in the Pierson Park lake early Sunday with friends when he disappeared beneath the water. The other three teens called authorities around 2 a.m. Sunday to report the ...

9 years ago
Amtrak and BNSF Railway officials are gauging interest in passenger train service between Texas and Kansas. Joe McHugh, an Amtrak vice president, tells the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2sR0D2p) that there are many steps needed to establish passenger train service between the states. But he says there has been tremendous interest from people in southern and eastern Kansas ...

9 years ago
The 41st edition of the Smoky Hill River Festival wrapped up Sunday evening in Oakdale Park. It was another successful weekend for everyone involved. Over 100 performers and 130 artists made their way to Salina and brought lots of entertainment to festival goers. Weather conditions stayed dry all weekend, however, festival goers had to battle windy and hot ...

9 years ago
A former Olathe Northwest High School student who had active tuberculosis says he wants to raise awareness about the potentially fatal disease that is still relatively rare in the state. Tests discovered that Zee Pinkerton had the disease two years ago when he was a senior. Students and staff at the school were tested. Those who tested ...

9 years ago
Many Kansas legislators see their work toward complying with a state Supreme Court mandate on public school funding as unfinished. They take that view even though lawmakers passed a bill last week that phases in a $293 million increase in spending over two years. Some expect to be forced to return to the Statehouse this summer. Republican Gov. ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators have approved a bill that would set up a task force to provide greater oversight for the state's foster care system and recommend changes. The votes Friday were 105-10 in the House and 33-6 in the Senate. The bill goes next to Gov. Sam Brownback. A three-part state audit found that the Department for Children ...

9 years ago
A Kansas man charged with fatally shooting an Indian national at a suburban Kansas City bar has been indicted on federal hate crime and firearms charges. The Justice Department announced Friday that Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas, was indicted by a federal grand jury. The man allegedly killed and another wounded by Purinton on Feb. 22 at ...

9 years ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects this year's Kansas winter wheat crop to drop 35 percent from last year. The department on Friday said Kansas winter wheat farmers are expected to bring in 304 million bushels this year. Last year, farmers produced 467 million bushels of winter wheat last year. Dan O'Brien, an agriculture economist at Kansas ...

9 years ago
The owner of a Missouri hemp oil supplier says he's making a special product line for Kansas after police seized the supply of a retailer because it contained trace amounts of the high-inducing agent in marijuana. The Kansas City Star reports that CBD American Shaman owner Vince Sanders says he hopes the move will appease law ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators have finished their work and adjourned their annual session except for a brief, formal ceremony to mark its end. The Senate adjourned at 5:45 p.m. It did so shortly after passing a bill containing budgets for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and for the following fiscal year. The House passed the same bill and ...

9 years ago
Matt Burke's visit to a friend's workshop in New Hampshire several years ago began his journey to learning the art of timber framing, a craft he now shares with young and old alike. "The tools I was drawn to were the mallet and the chisel," he said. Burke explained the shop was full of rugged timbers and ...