10 years ago
A book checked out from a southwest Missouri library 37 years ago is back after the borrower deposited it into an outdoor book drop with an apology note and $6 to cover late fees. The Springfield News-Leader reports the book, which ponders whether the Bermuda Triangle exists, was due back November 29th, 1978, but didn't make ...

10 years ago
With the approval by Illinois regulators for its part of a 780-mile transmission line to carry wind power from the Kansas high plains to Eastern power grids, Missouri farmers are the only ones standing in the way of the $2.2 billion project. The battle pits Houston-based Clean Line Energy against a row of Missouri farmers stretching ...

10 years ago
Donations of toys, and cash, rolled in Saturday afternoon in memory of a long-time, well known Salina Realtor. Alpha Media Salina radio stations Y 93.7, FM 104.9, and News Radio 1150 KSAL hosted a toy drive at the Salina Target Store in memory of Dave Antrim. Antrim was the owner and broker for Coldwell Banker, Antrim, ...

10 years ago
A Kansas prosecutor says a handgun that killed the 3-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy did not belong to the child's father. Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder says the gun that killed Kaden Nagel on Friday belonged to "a friend" of someone at the apartment where deputy Andrew Nagel was living temporarily. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1NNkd5P) ...

10 years ago
Floyd Bledsoe is out of prison in Kansas after serving 15 years for a killing his brother admitted to in a suicide note last month. But Bledsoe isn't getting any monetary apology from the state's taxpayers. Unlike more than half of U.S. states, Kansas has no law setting forth the monetary value of lost time for ...

10 years ago
SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The 3-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy has died from a self-inflicted gunshot after he found a loaded handgun. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson said in a news release that Kaden Nagel died early Friday. The boy is the son of Reno County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Nagel. Henderson says the boy found ...

10 years ago
A judge has rejected a request for lower bond from the woman charged with starting a fire that killed two Kansas City firefighters. An attorney for Thu Hong Nguyen asked that her $2 million cash bond be reduced to $100,000. Jackson County Associate Circuit Judge Jalilah Otto denied the request Friday. The Kansas City Star reports Fire ...

10 years ago
A Kansas bail bondsman and his wife have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a child authorities believe to be the man's missing son. Wyandotte County prosecutors say Michael Jones and his wife, Heather Jones, were charged Friday. Both also are charged with child abuse. Michael Jones was arrested late last month after a ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Family Policy Council says it has hired a Republican lawmaker from Wichita as its new executive director. However, the lawmaker, Representative Steve Brunk, said Friday that negotiations are continuing and nothing about his possible new job will be officially announced until January. The council is an advocacy group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. Brunk ...

10 years ago
Kansas' top child welfare official says allegations that she attempts to block potential adoptions by same-sex couples are "fiction." Secretary Phyllis Gilmore says decisions by the Kansas Department for Children and Families and its contractors about troubled children are driven by a desire to find the best homes for them. The agency faces criticism that it discriminates ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Wichita State University officials say that an active marketing campaign has increased the amount of potential patents by school faculty and students. The Wichita Eagle reports that Wichita State University Ventures, an arm of the school that assists with patenting and commercializing inventions or software, has sharply increased the number of invention ...