11 years ago
The mystery of the balloon that crash-landed into a southeast Missouri field has been solved - it was a Google Loon. The balloon hovering at 70,000 feet lost its signal Thursday afternoon and ended up in a field near Bragg City, Missouri. A program director for Google told Pemiscot County Deputy Anthony Dale that Google started the ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are close to the end of their annual spring break and plan to reconvene this week at the Statehouse to wrap up their business for the year. The House and Senate are scheduled to be back in session Wednesday. Lawmakers must balance the next state budget, and their research staff says they must close a ...

11 years ago
The website of a Topeka arts districts has been restored after it was hacked. The main page of the North Topeka Arts District site was replaced last week with an image of a masked man holding a firearm. A message in garbled English read, in part, "I am Muslim & I love jihad. I love ISIS ...

11 years ago
South-central Kansas authorities are expressing concerns about accidental shootings. Wichita police Lieutenant James Espinoza says there have been seven accidental shootings in the city through April 20th. In the past couple weeks alone, a 32-year-old woman died in her home. Her husband told police he was removing his gun from its holster when it discharged. Also ...

11 years ago
To be in Kansas. Not to be: Anywhere else but Kansas State University in Manhattan. The question: When will "First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare," a national traveling exhibition of Shakespeare's First Folio, be on campus? That question has been answered with the date set for the exhibition, which is based on one of the world's ...

11 years ago
The application deadline for those wanting to sell fireworks in Salina and Saline County is approaching. Officials are spreading the word that the deadline is in mid-May. The Saline County Planning Department would like to notify the public that applications for a temporary fireworks stand must be submitted on or before 5:00 p.m. on May 20th. ...

11 years ago
Kansas is expected to increase taxes to close a budget shortfall, but Republicans who control the Legislature don't yet agree on the outlines of a plan. Republican Governor Sam Brownback wants to protect major income tax cuts he pushed legislators to enact in 2012 and 2013 to help stimulate the economy. He's proposing to slow down future ...

11 years ago
A storm system that moved through the Midwest dropped heavy rai, hail, and tornadoes in Kansas. The National Weather Service says the first tornado was confirmed around 5 p.m. Friday near the unincorporated community of Fairport, which is about 20 miles northeast of Hays.  A tornado was also spotted near the small unincorporated town of Modoc ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has shielded from public disclosure evidence the U.S. government turns over to attorneys for a Kansas man accused of trying to bomb an Army installation. An order signed Friday in the case of 20-year-old John T. Booker Jr. comes at the request of prosecutors and with the agreement of his defense attorneys. Prosecutors ...

11 years ago
A research group is warning the state's 10-year highway program could be threatened if the Kansas Legislature continues to use State Highway Fund money for other state expenses. The Lawrence Journal-World reports state transportation officials remain confident the projects in the highway program, called T-Works, will be completed. They acknowledge some projects meant to prevent costlier ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is arrested for criminal use of a financial card. Officers arrested 31-year-old Eddie E. Boyce after he allegedly used a woman's debit card without permission. Police say Boyce visited the home of an acquaintance in January of this year and removed the car keys to enter the woman's truck and stole her debit card. He ...