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Authorities have arrested a man charged with using a rural Douglas County home to produce methamphetamine. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Benito Olivas-Yanez was arrested Wednesday in Olathe. He's one of 17 defendants indicted in December as part of a conspiracy federal prosecutors say spanned from July 2011 to December 2013. Olivas-Yanez, a Mexican citizen, is scheduled to ...

12 years ago
Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he has no power under Kansas law to keep U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts off the ballot in the state's Republican primary. Roberts filed Friday for his fourth, six-year term in the Senate. He submitted the necessary paperwork shortly after tea party challenger Milton Wolf called on Kobach to reject any ...

12 years ago
The Kansas House of Representatives has rejected a bill that would have exempted private-sector health clubs from property taxes. The Wichita Eagle reports  that a House-Senate conference committee had earlier removed the proposed tax break from a bill that passed the Senate, but supporters in the House made a last-ditch effort to restore it in a ...

12 years ago
A 38-year-old Wichita man won't face the hard 50 prison sentence after the jury in his trial couldn't agree on giving him the heftier sentence. Jason A. Jones was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of 34-year-old Shawn Lindsey, who was injected with a lethal dose of methamphetamine in January 2013. Sedgwick ...

12 years ago
Students from Salina South were among Kansas high school thespians taking home Jester Awards Friday night at the 13th annual Jester Awards celebration at the Orpheum Theater in Wichita. The awards show event honors excellence in the production of high school musicals across Kansas. As part of the award process, during the past nine months, 79 judges ...

12 years ago
Heat and dry weather forecast for Kansas this weekend are expected to strain a winter wheat crop already battered by drought conditions and early spring freezes. The National Weather Service says temperatures across most of southern Kansas are expected to climb into the mid-80s on Saturday and the low 90s by Sunday, with some places along ...

12 years ago
Kansas senators have approved a budget that completes spending for state agencies for 2015, including bonuses for state workers and funds to shrink a waiting list of disabled people needing health services. The Senate's 22-18 vote Friday sends the bill to the House, which was to vote later in the day. The bill also includes more than ...

12 years ago
A vote in the Kansas House appears to have saved a state requirement for utilities to rely on wind and other renewable resources to generate some of their electricity. On a 63-60 vote Friday, the House blocked debate on a bill repealing the mandate for utilities to have renewable resources cover 20 percent of their peak ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Senate has approved legislation declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate prairie chickens in the state. The 30-7 vote Friday evening sent the measure to the House, where passage would send it to Gov. Sam Brownback. The measure is a response to the federal government's March listing of the lesser prairie chicken ...

12 years ago
A safety program is helping students at Southeast of Saline to remember to buckle up. The S.A.F.E. (Seatbelts are for everyone) program has been in place at SES with the help of the Saline County Sheriff's Office since September of 2010. School Resource Officer, Deputy Linda Martinez says the use of seatbelts by  SES students has continued ...

12 years ago
Opponents of a renewable energy requirement for Kansas utilities have drafted a new proposal for ending it, and lawmakers are preparing to debate it. The House is expected to take a procedural vote Friday to determine whether both chambers could move ahead. It would repeal a requirement that utilities must have wind or other renewable resources ...