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 ...

9 years ago
Kansas lawmakers' approval of a measure meant to keep concealed guns out of hospitals is a testament to how much the Republican-controlled Legislature shifted to the left in last year's elections. Kansas has been a testing ground for gun-rights advocates' favored policies. But state lawmakers this past week bucked the National Rifle Association by rewriting a ...

9 years ago
A proposal to restore guaranteed tenure for some Kansas public school teachers has become part of legislative talks on education funding. Republican Rep. Clay Aurand of Belleville outlined the proposal Friday as the House negotiated with the Senate over a plan to boost spending on public schools. Negotiators said they would review it. Lawmakers are looking at phasing ...

9 years ago
Authorities found three children alive and well and apprehended the man they apparently were with who is suspected in the death of a woman at a Wichita home that burned down. An Amber Alert was issued Friday night for William J. Thompson III, 12, Ethan Thompson, 5, and Damien Wright, 2, who authorities believed were with ...