11 years ago
Emergency management officials in south-central Kansas say there are no reports of damage from a series of small earthquakes that shook Sumner County. The U.S. Geological Survey says two quakes in the magnitude 3 range were centered southeast of Conway Springs. One earthquake struck just before 8 a.m. Monday, followed by another at 10:23 a.m. KWCH-TV reports ...

11 years ago
A Salina woman who pleaded no contest to first degree murder charges in connection with the death of her 3-month-old son is sentenced to life in prison. Judge Patrick Thompson on Monday sentenced 21-year-old Desirah N. Overturf to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. The case stems from the death of ...

11 years ago
Police arrest a Salina woman accused of pointing a knife at an acquaintance. Officers were called to a central Salina home early Sunday morning around 12:15am after a 46-year-old man was threatened with a knife. Police arrested 37-year-old Leslie Keeler after an argument escalated in the home. Police say she tore a shirt that belonged to the man ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating a vehicle burglary in the 1800 block of Quincy. Police say on Saturday someone broke the window on a 2001 Mitsubishi Montero that was parked in the driveway and removed the radio after damaging the dash. They also stole $100 in currency. Total loss is listed at $550. An excavation truck is stolen. ...

11 years ago
State wildlife officials are deciding what type of charges to file against four men who they say shot 209 doves in one day in Kansas. The daily limit during hunting season in Kansas is 15 doves per hunter. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism officials say the men were stopped in rural Ellis County ...

11 years ago
A police investigation leads to the arrest of a Salina man after he allegedly slashed a victim with a box cutter outside a Salina bar. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, interviews with eye witnesses helped identify 26-year-old Kashif Wilson as the suspect who attacked a 24-year-old male outside the Inferno at 112 N. Santa Fe on ...

11 years ago
After a warm start to the week, unseasonably cool tmperatures will follow. Acording to the National Weather Service, temperatures will rise into the upper 80s and low 90s through Tuesday. Then a cold front arrives Tuesday night into Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms will become more widespread along the cold front with unseasonably cool air arriving for ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University is adding a Chinese language and cultural center called a Confucius Institute. The university announced last week that it has signed an agreement with China's language-teaching agency, the Hanban. A Confucius Institute already is located at the University of Kansas. Through the program, universities partner with a Chinese school. Kansas State's partner school is ...

11 years ago
A Topeka police officer was shot and killed while making a car stop late Sunday afternoon. Shawnee County Sheriff Herman Jones said at a news conference Sunday night that the officer had stopped a car in east Topeka, and in the middle of the stop the officer was shot. Authorities said the car then drove away. The ...

11 years ago
A Hutchinson man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for sexually abusing a pair of 13-year-old girls. The Hutchinson News reports that a Reno County judge on Friday also sentenced 25-year-old Michael Stahl to lifetime post-release supervision. Stahl was convicted of multiple charges, including four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. The judge ...

11 years ago
Wichita police say a woman was hospitalized after two women attacked her with stiletto shoes in a nightclub parking lot. Sgt. J.T. Ryan says the 24-year-old woman was hospitalized early Sunday with a large laceration on the left side of her head. Her condition is unclear. She says the women attacked her outside of Club Indigo. Ryan says ...