10 years ago
Salina Police are looking for two people who robbed a woman outside a convenience store early Sunday morning. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a woman in her 20's was approached near her car in the Casey's parking lot at 2404 S. 9th just after midnight on Sunday. Police say a man came up quickly and grabbed the ...

10 years ago
The Kansas State Historical Society plans to return human remains excavated from Native American burial sites in Kansas to two tribes. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports  the remains of two people dug up in Pottawatomie County were donated to the historical society in 1881 by a private collector. In the years since, the historical society has received ...

10 years ago
A federal judge is slated to hear a change-of-plea request from a 29-year-old Topeka man accused of helping another man who plotted to bomb a northeast Kansas military installation last year. The hearing is scheduled for Monday in Topeka. Alexander E. Blair previously pleaded not guilty to charges that he helped 21-year-old John T. Booker in his ...

10 years ago
A man who spent nearly 16 years in prison for a rape and killing to which his brother confessed wants Kansas to pull the plug on the death penalty. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 39-year-old Floyd Bledsoe shared his story over the weekend in the basement of a Lawrence church. Bledsoe never faced the death penalty himself. ...

10 years ago
Police and the Humane Society have removed 65 animals from a Wellington home where officers say the floors were covered with inches of feces. Police found 22 rabbits, 12 dogs, nine cats, three guinea pigs, three ferrets, two rats and four mice living in the home after a neighbor called Friday night. There also were 10 chickens ...

10 years ago
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper avoided injury after a car hit his parked patrol vehicle while he was helping a disabled motorist on a busy interstate highway. The trooper had pulled over north of the Moundridge exit on Interstate 135 around 1:30 p.m. Sunday when a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed hit his ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Board of Regents has approved a working group to study how the state's universities respond to sexual violence and other sex-based discrimination issues. A separate group will study how to find and enroll Kansans with some college credits but no degree. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/22ip58l) the regents approved both groups during meetings this ...

10 years ago
A driver involved in a crash that killed a Salina woman back in April has been arrested on murder charges. According to Saline County Jail records, 33-year-old Patrick Driscoll was booked in on charges that include 2nd Degree Murder, DUI, and multiple traffic violations. Back on April 27th Driscoll was involved in a head-on crash. At 4:26am, ...

10 years ago
NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper and a suspect he was trying to arrest are hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a confrontation at a casino parking garage. The patrol says in a news release that two troopers were investigating a report of a suspicious person Friday night at Harrah's Casino ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City man has been convicted of setting a house fire that killed his 14-month-old daughter and an adult. A Jackson County jury on Friday found 35-year-old Stephen Elijah of Grandview guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. Elijah was acquitted of ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas City Police Department is disputing a city audit report that showed the department's vehicle take-home program cost about $1.5 million. City auditor Doug Jones calculated that police take-home vehicles were driven 2.5 million miles for commuting and personal use during a recent 12-month period. The Kansas City Star reports that ...