11 years ago
A Wichita man is hurt in a motorcycle crash near Salina. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 47-year-old Mark Follin of Wichita was riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle headed south on Interstate 135. He moved to the passing lane and for unknown reasons left the roadway and entered the median. Follin, who was wearing a helmet, was hurt. ...

11 years ago
The Agriculture Department has forecast U.S. farmers will harvest a far smaller winter wheat crop this season than a year ago, particularly for the hard red varieties used to bake bread. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday that winter wheat production is forecast to be down 10 percent to 1.49 billion bushels amid fewer acres ...

11 years ago
Law enforcement officials are looking for three inmates who walked away from the Lansing Correctional Facility. The inmates escaped early Friday from minimum security. Further details of their escape were not immediately available. The inmates are 31-year-old Allen M. Hurst and 49-year-old Scott A. Gilbert, who both were convicted in Sedgwick County in 2010 of multiple counts ...

11 years ago
A Salina man arrested as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of a Salina woman is facing a murder charge. 24-year-old James Heil, described as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler, taken into custody Wednesday night at a hotel in Abilene and held on an unrelated probation violation. According to Saline ...

11 years ago
A Salina man arrested as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of a Salina woman is facing a murder charge. 24-year-old James Heil, described as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler, was taken into custody Wednesday night at a hotel in Abilene and held on an unrelated charges. According to ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A committee in the Kansas Legislature is trying to prevent the sale of a parking lot for government workers near the Statehouse. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Legislature's Joint Committee on State Building Construction voted Thursday to ask the Department of Administration to reject all bids for the lot. The highest bid ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas House committee has approved a proposal to spend $1.2 million to fund a new research center for potential medical cures with adult stem cells. The Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to direct House budget negotiators to push for the spending. Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill last month creating the new center ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Governor Sam Brownback's administration has overcome fresh resistance from the Kansas Legislature to authorizing an additional $202 million in bonds for a national biodefense lab. The House Appropriations Committee Thursday initially postponed a decision to the governor's proposal for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility at Kansas State University. But after a ...

11 years ago
Saline County authorities searching for a missing mother of four located a body off Interstate 135 in Salina Thursday afternoon. The sheriff's department would not say Thursday whether the body was that of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler. But KSN television was interviewing Tyler's mother when officers called her to tell her that Kristin's body had been found. The ...

11 years ago
Goveronr Sam Brownback continues to face resistance from Kansas legislators to authorizing another $202 million in bonds for a new national biosecurity lab. The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday postponed a decision on the governor's proposal for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas State University. The governor says the additional bonds will complete the financing ...

11 years ago
For approximately the past 13 months, the Geary County Attorney’s Office, Junction City Police Department, Geary County Sheriff’s Office, Riley County Police Department, Grandview Plaza Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation have conducted a complex investigation involving the conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The investigation involved the use of undercover officers/agents, confidential informants, ...