11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court says it will begin deliberating next week on whether to keep in place its order barring a Johnson County judge from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Written arguments in the case were due late Friday. No public hearings were scheduled. The court begins its deliberations on Monday. The state of Kansas filed ...

11 years ago
A new government report shows more Kansas farms put more acres under irrigation last year than in 2008, when the last survey was taken. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday that its survey showed 5,243 Kansas farms were irrigating 2.85 million acres of crops last year. That compares with the 2008 survey when 4,508 farms ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Republican Central Committee gathered for its biennial re-organizational meeting Thursday night. According to the organization, Clarke Sanders was re-elected to serve as the party’s Chairman for the next two years. He was first elected to the position in 2010. The committee also elected Joyce Dial of Gypsum to the position of Vice-chair, Susan Blackshere ...

11 years ago
Sometime between September 1, 2014 and November 10, 2014, a fence was cut surrounding a cellular telephone tower located at 2350 West Stimmel Road, neat the I-70/I-135 interchange, rural Saline County. A copper bar inscribed “stolen, do not buy” that is used to ground the tower was stolen. The cooper bar is approximately 8” wide ...

11 years ago
Two Liberal residents died when the minivan they were riding in was hit by a trailer that came loose from a pickup truck. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 71-year-old Salvador Garcia and 68-year-old Consuelo Garcia died in the accident Thursday afternoon on a Meade County road about 12 miles north of Plains. The driver of the minivan ...

11 years ago
A proposal to merge Dodge City Community College into Fort Hays State University apparently has collapsed. The merger had sparked controversy since it was first announced this spring. Supporters said it would help the Dodge City-area economy and provide more educational opportunities. Opponents were concerned the merger would hurt the community college's educational mission and its ...

11 years ago
Riley County police have charged a man with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed and he then was in a standoff with police. The woman was found injured Thursday at the Manhattan Public Library, about four blocks from where police believe she was stabbed. Thirty-year-old Samuel Dartez of Manhattan was arrested after a four-hour standoff with ...

11 years ago
During World War I, Kansas sent flour to Belgium in cotton sacks to help the relief efforts during the war. Belgium women embroidered the sacks and sent them back to Kansas as a thank you gift. Now 100 years later, one of those embroidered flour sacks is returning to Belgium for an exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary ...

11 years ago
A quick moving storm system is expected to move across the region on Saturday, bringing accumulating snowfall. Most areas could receive 2” to 4” of snow by Saturday evening. Snow will begin early Saturday morning and persist through the day. The heaviest snowfall is likely between 5am and noon Saturday, tapering off through the afternoon. Travel conditions ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has announced plans to begin deliberating a same-sex marriage case on the same day that a mass wedding was planned in Wichita. The hearing planned for Monday stems from a petition that Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed after a Johnson County judge directed that marriage licenses be issued to same-sex couples. ...

11 years ago
Judges in at least four Kansas counties were issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples a day after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing them to wed. Clerks in other counties were giving applications to gay couples but requiring them to abide by the state's three-day waiting period before they can get a license. As of ...