10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas farmers have begun harvesting what appears to be a bountiful wheat crop. More bushels coming in from this year's harvest will help ease some of the sting from wheat prices that have plunged roughly 53 percent since peaking at $7.77 a bushel during the 2012 drought. The Agriculture Department reported Friday that ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt wants the state Supreme Court to rescind its warning that the state's schools may close if the Legislature doesn't fix funding inequities. The high court found the state's school funding system unconstitutional in February and set a June 30 deadline for the Legislature to correct it. A ...

10 years ago
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas plans to begin offering classes in Leavenworth. The decision was announced Thursday at a meeting of the Leavenworth County Development Corporation, with has been working with the university to find sites in Leavenworth for the classes. The Leavenworth Timers reports the classes are designed to accommodate military personnel at ...

10 years ago
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - Federal prosecutors allege a former guard at the Leavenworth penitentiary took bribes to smuggle tobacco into the prison. Marc Buckner, of Kansas City, Kansas, was indicted Wednesday on one count of accepting bribes. Buckner allegedly received more than $200,000 in bribes while he worked at the prison from 2005 to 2014. The U.S. ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal appeals court says Kansas cannot prevent thousands of eligible voters from casting ballots in the November federal election because they didn't prove their U.S. citizenship when registering to vote at motor vehicle offices. Friday's ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily upholds a federal judge's order that ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas wildlife officials say it will take weeks and perhaps months to determine why 30 federally protected egrets turned up dead in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is trying to pinpoint what killed the birds last week in a residential area. As the department's ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Republicans returning to the Statehouse June 23 for a special session to discuss school funding say they plan to quickly resolve the issue to avoid school closures on July 1. The state's Supreme Court ruled last month that the Legislature's proposal for distributing more than $4 billion a year in aid ...

10 years ago
PRATT, Kan. (AP) - A portion of the Arkansas River in Kansas is now part of the National Park's Service National Water Trail system. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says the 192-mile stretch of the Arkansas River from Great Bend to the Oklahoma border southeast of Arkansas City was named a National Water ...

10 years ago
Printmaker Charley Forsyth fit two Kansas giants into his small art tent at the Smoky Hill River Festival this weekend. Carvings of Basketball Inventor James Naismith and Abolitionist John Brown watch over Forsyth's space as visitors come and go to buy and inquire about his old world art. "I basically carved out what I didn't want to ...

10 years ago
It was a somber start to the second full day of the Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina's Oakdale Park. Shortly after the gates opened at 10:00 a festival-goer suffered a serious medical condition. The person was headed to grab a shady spot in front of the Eric Stein Stage when he collapsed. Medical professionals on scene ...

10 years ago
Brown Mackie Colleges across the country, including the school in Salina, are closing. A company official from Education Management Corporation, the operator of chains that include Brown Mackie Colleges, told KSAL News that they are phasing out their Brown Mackie locations. Brown Mackie is not closing immediately, but will in the near future. The schools are not ...