11 years ago
A 30-year-old man has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a Topeka police officer. Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced Wednesday that he had filed the charge against Ross Preston Lane, who was being held without bond. Kansas law allows the death penalty for the slaying of a law ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is jailed for indecent liberties with two children. Salina Police arrested 72-year-old Gerald Jones on Tuesday after officers met with a preschool aged girl at the hospital. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, the girl's parent took her to Salina Regional Health Center and medical staff contacted police. Captain Sweeney tells KSAL News their investigation revealed ...

11 years ago
A Salina man pleads not guilty in a case involving an accident that killed a 93-year-old man who was riding a scooter. Officials tell KSAL News that 50-year-old Dennis Campbell of Salina plead not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges earlier this week in Saline County District Court. Prosecutors allege that Campbell was under the influence of ...

11 years ago
University of Kansas students are pressuring the school to improve its response to sexual assault reports. More than 200 people attended a forum on the subject Tuesday, hours after a student group posted a video telling people that the school is not safe. The student group, called September Siblings, also is circulating petitions asking the school ...

11 years ago
A Lindsborg woman is hurt in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday evening. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 69-year-old Jo Mae Henderson-Shaw was driving a car headed east on K4 Highway when she fell asleep. The car went into the ditch, rolled one time,and came to rest on its wheels in a sunflower field. Henderson-Shaw, who was buckled ...

11 years ago
Wichita police say they've arrested a caregiver who allegedly kept two of his ex-girlfriends locked in an apartment for several days. The 56-year old man was arrested this week. He was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of unlawful restraint and two counts of mistreatment of dependent adults. It's unclear if he's been charged. Police ...

11 years ago
The feel of fall is in the air. A cold front has moved through central and eastern Kansas bringing cloudy skies and breezy north winds. According to the National Weather Service, clouds along with cold air moving south will keep temperatures cooler than in recent days. Some areas may see nearly steady temperatures, or have them ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Press Association is searching for pictures of Kansas residents who died in Vietnam. The pictures will become part of a national project called "Faces Never Forgotten." They will be added to the Wall of Faces in a new education center at the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the KPA began ...

11 years ago
Kansas has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a national gun control group against a state law that challenges federal authority to regulate firearms. The state contended in a court filing Monday in U.S. District Court that the Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has no legal standing to challenge its law. ...

11 years ago
A campaign to allow a vote on serving liquor by the drink in a north-central Kansas county has fallen short again. The Clay Center Dispatch reports Clay County is among 13 of the state's 105 counties that don't allow restaurants to serve liquor by the drink. Proponents have turned in three petitions to put the question to ...

11 years ago
A government report shows the quality of this year's Kansas wheat crop down from 2013, with just 73 percent of samples graded by grain inspectors getting the top No. 1 grading. The National Agricultural Statistics Service said Tuesday that 85 percent of last year's Kansas crop was graded as No. 1 wheat. Determinations of test weights, protein ...