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Two people are dead after their single-engine airplane crashed into a central Kansas field not long after takeoff. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victims as a 49-year-old Great Bend man and a 24-year-old man from Utah. Both died a the scene. The patrol says the Pottier P70 crashed at 11:33 a.m. Sunday in Barton County after ...

12 years ago
A retired FedEx jet has found a new home and purpose as a classroom for Liberal students to learn math and science in southwest Kansas. The donated Boeing 727, which was built in 1979 and also had a career as a passenger jet, will be called the Liberal Learning Jet. The jet named "Alina" arrived Thursday at ...

12 years ago
A program that seeks to persuade people from other states to move into rural parts of Kansas is taking aim at travelers making their way through the Flint Hills between Topeka and Wichita along the Kansas turnpike. Three large aluminum signs have been affixed to turnpike overpasses promising outsiders a chance to "Live tax free in ...

12 years ago
An Alabama woman is transported to the hospital in Salina late Saturday night after a truck she is riding in collides with a deer. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 42-year-old Morgan Fouliard was driving a pickup truck headed east on Interstate 70. He hit a southbound deer that crossed into the driving lane. A ...

12 years ago
There was no jackpot winner in Saturday night’s $221 million Powerball drawing. According to the lottery, the estimated jackpot for Wednesday is $257 million. The cash option is $151.9 million. Both of those numbers could likely rise within the next couple of days. The winning numbers Saturday were 28, 30, 35, 58, and 59. The Powerball was ...

12 years ago
A new email scam is playing off the good fortunes of a Kansas City man who won a huge lottery last year to entice potential victims to shell out hundreds of dollars to claim their share of the prize. People all over the U.S. have received emails saying the local mechanic who won a $71.5 million ...

12 years ago
A Kansas inmate whose capital murder conviction and death sentence were overturned last year is refuting his attorney's claims that the prisoner devised the trial strategy that led to his 2005 conviction. 41-year-old Phillip Cheatham says attorney Dennis Hawver coerced him into approving a strategy that included telling jurors of his drug-dealing past. Hawver filed a ...

12 years ago
A southern Kansas community is trying to figure out how to house hundreds of new employees a local company plans to start hiring in the next six months. Arkansas City is in a predicament because housing in the area is scarce and Creekstone Farms is planning to add 300 more workers to its staff of 800. Nick ...

12 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has been named by his colleagues across the country as the vice chairman of their national Human Trafficking Committee. The Kansas Republican successfully pushed legislation in 2013 aimed at strengthening state laws against human trafficking and providing better support for victims. The committee of the National Association of Attorneys General studies anti-human ...

12 years ago
Former Kansas congressman Todd Tiahrt has picked a longtime colleague to manage his campaign to recapture his old seat in the state's 4th Congressional District. Tiahrt announced Tuesday that Robert Noland would serve as his campaign manager. Noland had been executive director of the Kansas Family Policy Council since 2010. The group strongly opposes abortion, gay rights ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas businessman is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent candidate and advocating open primary elections to blunt what he says is the influence of extremists in both major parties. Greg Orman of Olathe met with reporters Wednesday at the Statehouse as part of a six-city tour to open his campaign. He's seeking the ...