10 years ago
A Wichita man was hurt in crash along Interstate 135 in Saline County early Monday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 54-year-old Robert Brown of Wichita was driving a 2005 Mini Cooper, headed north. For an unknown reason he lost control, slid into the east ditch, and rolled.  The car came to rest on the ...

10 years ago
Members of the Kansas Children's Cabinet criticized the leader of their group for excluding them from recent funding recommendations for early childhood programs. The recommendations come in a document that says they are "from the Kansas Children's Cabinet." But group members said they didn't vote on them. Amanda Adkins, the group's chairwoman, said Friday she needed to ...

10 years ago
While two universities in Kansas provide online lists of registered sex offenders enrolled or employed on campus, most require that the basic information be provided directly by campus police. Of the state's six state universities, only Kansas State and the University of Kansas make the information readily accessible online, according to their websites. Only Kansas State ...

10 years ago
Dogs at the Salina Animal Shelter will soon be moving back into a refurbished and renovated new home. Resurfacing and sealing of the floor, and replacement of the aged aluminum kennels is complete. Officials are waiting for caulk to totally dry, before moving the animals back into the new area. It is anticipated that they will ...

10 years ago
"The Bard" is a big deal in the Little Apple. The spirit of William Shakespeare is alive and well on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan. A national traveling exhibition, that features on of the most treasured books in the world, has opened at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. “First Folio! The ...

10 years ago
GALENA, Kan. (AP) - Cherokee County spent about $28,000 on a grand jury investigation that led to charges that were ultimately dismissed. The county budgeted $50,000 for the investigation in 2015 after opponents of plans to build a landfill in Riverton petitioned for the investigation. Another $50,000 was set aside in the 2016 budget before the ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A legislative dispute over how Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected is a political struggle centering on Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The issue is whether Brownback and his supporters can make their conservative fiscal and social policies stick well into the future. Brownback and his allies contend their goal in seeking change is ...

10 years ago
The allure of star power brought out an enthusiastic crowd Saturday in Salina to bid on a wide variety of celebrity and sports memorabilia  items. The 27th Annual Child Advocacy and Parenting Services, or CAPS Auction did not disappoint. After all was said and done, over $100,000 was raised for the organization. The bidding was fast and ...

10 years ago
The chairman of the Kansas House education committee says his panel won't vote on a school consolidation measure. Rep. Ron Highland, R-Wamego, told The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1RdVXvS) Saturday he doesn't intend to move forward this year with a House measure introduced by Rep. John Bradford, a Lansing Republican. The measure would pare down the number of ...

10 years ago
A suburban Kansas City hospital has reported 18 cases of a gastrointestinal illness, and at least one of the cases has been preliminarily identified as norovirus. The University of Kansas Hospital's Marillac Campus this week reported 18 cases of a gastrointestinal illness, with 10 cases among patients and eight cases among staff. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting ...

10 years ago
Kansas apparently won't join several other states that have passed recent laws aimed at making it more difficult for domestic abusers to have weapons. Rep. Barbara Bollier, a Mission Hills Republican, last year proposed a bill that would create a gun restraining order that would allow courts and law enforcement to seize firearms from domestic abusers ...