11 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - An engineering firm says it plans to appeal a decision by federal regulators in favor of a whistleblower allegedly fired for reporting unsafe conditions at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Georgia based Enercon Services violated whistleblower protections when it retaliated against an engineer ...

11 years ago
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The tornadoes that have raked communities in Oklahoma, Texas and other states over the past week belie what has been an unusually slow start to the 2013 tornado season. In fact, this was the longest the U.S. had gone into May without registering an EF1 or stronger tornado, which are the types ...

11 years ago
Negotiations among Kansas legislators on tax issues are stalled amid bickering between Republican leaders in the House and Senate. Senators and House negotiators had no meetings Monday. House GOP leaders complained that Republican senators have not responded to their compromise proposal to drop the 6.3 percent state sales tax to 6 percent. The tax is now scheduled ...

11 years ago
Negotiators for the Kansas House and Senate still haven't decided when they'll resume talks aimed at reconciling differences between the two chambers on budget issues. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades of Newton was meeting privately Monday with other GOP House leaders. Lawmakers are working on proposed budgets of roughly $14.5 billion for each of the next ...

11 years ago
The trial of a Salina man charged in the abuse death of a toddler will be moved to Riley County. Antonio M. Brown is charged with first-degree murder and child abuse in the October 2011 death of his girlfriend's 14-month-old son, Clayden Lee Urbanek. Saline County District Court Administrator Todd Heitschmidt said Monday that county officials were ...

11 years ago
A man from Marquette is sentenced to 260 years in federal prison for using a 9-year-old child to produce child pornography. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, 50-year-old Philip Andra Grigsby pleaded guilty as charged to eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of unlawful ...

11 years ago
A favorable Kansas House vote is all supporters need for final legislative approval of restrictions on the use of state tax dollars for promoting or opposing gun-control measures. The bill also would prohibit using state tax dollars to lobby local, state or federal officials on the issue. The House planned to debate the measure Tuesday. The Senate ...

11 years ago
Vandals shatter the glass on a parked car. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone threw a brick at a 2002 Ford Taurus that was parked in the 1000 block of N. 11th, sometime between Friday at 10pm and early Saturday morning at around 12:53am. Police say the windshield was smashed and the roof of the car was ...

11 years ago
The beef-processing company that makes the product that critics call "pink slime" continues to struggle more than a year after the initial stories on the lean bits of beef that Beef Products Inc. produced. The Dakota Dunes, S.D., based company lost 80 percent of its business after the uproar over what BPI calls lean finely textured ...

11 years ago
A party bus was operating illegally when a bachelorette party attendee tumbled out of it in Kansas City, Kan., and was killed. The Midnight Express party bus in which 26-year-old victim Jamie Frecks was riding lacked the proper registration. Kansas law required it to have a proper U.S. Department of Transportation number, but it didn't. If the ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Legislature has been in session a week longer than its leaders had anticipated, and lawmakers still must resolve major tax and budget issues. Monday will be the 87th day of lawmakers' annual session. Republican leaders in the GOP-dominated Legislature had promised that it would wrap up its business in 80 days. That would have trimmed ...