9 years ago
A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to five months he already served in jail for sending fake IRS letters to former girlfriends and business partners. The U.S. attorney's office says that 56-year-old Jeffrey Nickerson, of Lenexa, Kansas, was sentenced Tuesday for one count of impersonating a federal employee. Nickerson sent letters on IRS letterhead ...

9 years ago
Authorities responded to a chemical spill Tuesday evening at the Biosecurity Research Institute on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan. According to the school, the Manhattan Fire Department responded at 5:31 p.m. Oct. 25, for a chemical spill at the Biosecurity Research Institute, housed in Pat Roberts Hall. The spill was determined to be contained ...

9 years ago
The Sedgwick County Zoo was placed on lockdown after an orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure. Zoo officials said Tuesday that all the orangutans are now secured indoors. KWCH-TV reports the orangutan was a new female to the exhibit named Tao. She apparently found a way out of the enclosure and then returned a few minutes later on ...

9 years ago
A Geary County man has pleaded guilty today to taking part in the kidnapping of a Junction City woman who was killed during the abduction. According to acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, 26-year-old Drexel A. Woody, who lived at Fort Riley at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping resulting in ...

9 years ago
A vehicle's window is broken by BB gun fire in west Salina. Police are investigating a damage to property case after someone hit a 2001 Chevy Monte Carlo with repeated shots from a BB gun. Police report that sometime between midnight Saturday and 6:30am Monday someone used a BB gun to break the car's back window and ...

9 years ago
A top three finish at a state competition is propelling a group of students from Salina South High School to a multi-state competition. Over the weekend the Salina South High School Robotics Team competed at Wichita State University in the BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. The farming themed competition, required teams pick tomatoes ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a sport utility vehicle has struck and killed a pedestrian on Interstate 470 in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the man was hit Monday afternoon in the westbound lanes. Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Stephen La Row says the man had been in the same location on the interstate about 30 minutes earlier. At ...

9 years ago
A small computer was stolen from a Salina home while a woman slept. Salina Police are investigating an aggravated burglary after someone entered a home in the 100 block of S. Kansas sometime early Monday between midnight and 8am. Lorene Ramsay told officers someone entered her home through a window and stole her mini iPad valued at ...

9 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says former state legislator Richard Carlson will be staying on as Kansas transportation secretary. Brownback announced Monday that after three months as the Department of Transportation's interim secretary, Carlson has been elevated to secretary. The appointment will require state Senate confirmation after the Legislature convenes in January. The 72-year-old Carlson began serving as interim ...

9 years ago
Fall harvest has made some good progress in Kansas this past week amid dry conditions and warm temperatures. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 87 percent of the state's corn crop has been cut. That is near average compared to a year ago at this time. Kansas farmers have also harvested about 56 percent of ...

9 years ago
The Kansas State Fair recorded its third highest attendance ever this year. General Manager Susan Sankey said 359,808 people visited the 10-day fair, the third highest number in the event's 104-year history. The Hutchinson News reports that 2015 was a record-breaking year for fair attendance with 369,322 visitors, beating the previous record set in 1995 at 361,647. Sankey ...