9 years ago
A new Kansas museum is giving enthusiasts of late motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel a jump on appreciating his death-defying, bone-breaking exploits. The $5-million, 13,000-square-foot homage to the man famous for rocket-powered and motorbike stunts before his 2007 death has opened in Topeka. As president of the two-story museum attached to his Harley-Davidson dealership, Mike Patterson says Knievel ...

9 years ago
A Salina man left his home for a few minutes to come back to find many of his belonging stolen. Jaylen Parks, 19, left his 226 1/2 S. 10th Street home in Salina. When he returned minutes later, he found his back door had been kicked in, Xbox One game console, eight pairs of Nike Retro ...

9 years ago
A Solomon man was traveling on Old 40 Highway in eastern Saline County when a loose piece of metal from a passing semi struck and shattered the windshield. Robert Billinger was traveling west near the intersection of  Old 40 and Gypsum Valley in his gold Chevy Impala. Headed eastbound on Old 40 was a silver International semi ...

9 years ago
Kansas is launching a project to help immigrants get driver's licenses in a meatpacking town by offering free translators during the driving exams. The effort stems from an agreement between Kansas driver's license officials and Kearney County Hospital in Lakin. Meatpacking plants are the largest employers in western Kansas and have drawn a diverse population to the ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators have a new, larger estimate for how much a plan drafted by Republican lawmakers would increase spending on public schools. The State Department of Education projected Monday that the plan would phase in a $293 million increase over two years. The previous estimate was $285 million. The plan ties the funding increase to another measure ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a 78-year-old kayaker has been found dead at a Kansas reservoir. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse said in a news release that the body of Dan Mehringer was discovered near the kayak around 3 p.m. Sunday at the Banner Creek Reservoir west of Holton. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Holton man was wearing ...

9 years ago
A Lindsborg teen was killed in a two vehicle crash near Kanopolis Lake Sunday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 15-year-old Owen Odell was driving a pickup truck headed south on K141 Highway. He crossed the center lane and struck an oncoming pickup truck head on. That truck then caught fire. Odell was killed in the ...

9 years ago
Top Republican legislators in Kansas have a new plan to raise income taxes to fix the state budget and provide additional dollars to public schools. House Majority Leader Don Hineman of Dighton outlined the proposal Sunday during a meeting of House Republicans. The plan would raise more than $1 billion over two years by increasing income tax ...

9 years ago
Kansas is launching a project to help immigrants get driver's licenses in a meatpacking town by offering free translators during the driving exams. The effort stems from an agreement between Kansas driver's license officials and Kearney County Hospital in Lakin. Meatpacking plants are the largest employers in western Kansas and have drawn a diverse population to the ...

9 years ago
A man accused of killing and wounding people in Mississippi, New Mexico and Kansas in February has waived a hearing. Alex Deaton is charged in Kansas with attempted murder, aggravated robbery, theft, fleeing and attempting to elude an officer. KSNW-TV reports  that a Pratt County judge bound Deaton over after he waived Friday's hearing. The stepfather of ...

9 years ago
A central Kansas reservoir is indefinitely closed because of high levels of potentially harmful blue-green algae. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have announced the closure as of Thursday of the Marion Reservoir. That does not include Marion County Lake. Officials say ...