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 ...

11 years ago
Kansas Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer, and four members of Governor Sam Brownback's Cabinet, visited Salina on Tuesday. Joining Colyer was Secretary of Commerce Pat George, Secretary of Transportation Mike King, Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan, and Secretary of Labor Lana Gordon. The "growth team" met with key Salina business leaders and with the ...

11 years ago
Police say an argument between parents and a coach at a junior football league practice in Kansas escalated into a fight involving gunfire. Police say one man complained that his son was not getting enough playing time during Monday evening's practice at Linwood Park in Wichita. Then six men surrounded the coach and started punching ...

11 years ago
In front of a standing room only, lively crowd of approximately 2,500 people, candidates for Kansas Governor and U.S. Senate debated Saturday at the Kansas State Fair on Saturday. Republican Governor Sam Brownback and his Democratic challenger, Paul Davis, laid out their positions on education, taxes, Medicaid expansion and renewable energy during their first ...