10 years ago
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) - Authorities are searching for a 27-year-old Great Bend man who's been missing for more than a month. The Hutchinson News reports that police say Charles McHenry III was last seen May 6 getting into a two-door black car in Great Bend. The make and model of the vehicle are unknown. Police are ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Invasive zebra mussels have been found in another Kansas reservoir. The state department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says zebra mussels have been found in Hillsdale Reservoir in Miami County. The department says there's no way to completely rid a lake of zebra mussels, which are usually introduced into lakes after attaching themselves ...

10 years ago
MOORELAND, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says two earthquakes have rattled parts of western and central Oklahoma. The strongest was a 3.7 magnitude temblor that rattled near Mooreland about 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Less than an hour earlier, a 2.5 magnitude quake struck near Perry. A few miles across the border, a 3.1 magnitude hit near ...

10 years ago
RUSSELL, Kan. (AP) - A 59-year-old Russell man has died after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a cow. The Kansas Highway Patrol says James Zordel was riding a motorcycle when he hit the cow Friday night about six miles south of Interstate 70. The patrol says Zordel was not wearing a helmet. ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas is bracing for more contentious legal and political fights over education funding even after legislators approved a narrow, short-term fix to satisfy a court mandate. The Kansas Supreme Court directed lawmakers in a ruling last month to make education funding fairer to poor areas, forcing them to have a special session. But ...

10 years ago
Kansas’ primary elections will be held Tuesday, August 2.  In Saline County, several races will be decided in the primary, as some offices do not have candidates from both parties. To inform the voters of the Saline County area, the Salina League of Women Voters will hold a candidate forum Thursday, July 14, 6:30 p.m. at Kansas ...

10 years ago
A 29-year-old man charged in the death of a Kansas City, Kansas, police detective has made his first court appearance in Kansas. Curtis Ayers, of Tonganoxie, is charged with capital murder in the May 9 death of Det. Brad Lancaster. Ayers is accused of fleeing to Missouri in a car after Lancaster was shot. Kansas City, Missouri, ...

10 years ago
Officials have given approval for a rebuilt vintage bomber to be ground tested on a military runway in Kansas. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/28UItCT) the Department of Defense has given permission for "Doc," the vintage Wichita-built B-29 bomber, to use a runway at McConnell Air Force Base for ground testing. The approval essentially clears a path ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Four former Kansas governors are lashing out at Gov. Sam Brownback over policies they say have thrown the state into a serious fiscal crisis. A letter signed Friday by Republicans Bill Graves and Mike Hayden and Democrats Kathleen Sebelius and John Carlin calls the upcoming elections the most important in Kansas history. The ...

10 years ago
HOUSTON (AP) - The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by three this week to 421, snapping three weeks of gains after a slide that lasted months and pushed the count to record-low levels amid depressed energy prices. A year ago, 859 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker ...

10 years ago
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas City man has been charged with threatening a Jewish congregation in Kansas. Forty-year-old Brian Wachter made a first court appearance Thursday on a single criminal threat count. Wachter is jailed in Johnson County, with bond set at $25,000. No attorney is listed for him in online court records. The Kansas City ...