12 years ago
Correctional officers were searching for a minimum security inmate who was reported missing from his work site over the weekend. 43-year-old Christopher Ward was discovered missing around 5:30 p.m. Saturday from his work site at Cal-Maine Industries. The Hutchinson Correctional Facility inmate was incarcerated for convictions for burglary, theft, aggravated burglary, fleeing and eluding, and aggravated escape ...

12 years ago
Student government leaders at the University of Kansas say they are disappointed that the university is shifting some prized seats in Allen Fieldhouse from students to donors after the Student Senate eliminated a $25 student fee. The university's athletics department is moving students from seats behind the bench and near the tunnel where Kansas basketball players ...

12 years ago
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 ...