12 years ago
A Kansas sheriff says a deputy pulled over to help a stranded motorist, who stole the officer's vehicle and led officers on a chase. The chase happened Sunday night in Geary County. The sheriff says an officer stopped to help a woman along the side of the road who appeared to be suffering from asthma. He says ...

12 years ago
As autumn officially begins late Monday, seasonably mild weather is settling into central Kansas. The autumnal equinox officially brings the fall season to the Northern Hemisphere Monday, September 22nd, at 9:29 PM. It marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the Southern Hemisphere. The equinox is the moment when the sun ...

12 years ago
A rural Joplin man previously charged with abandoning the corpse of a gang member faces new charges in the shooting of another gang member. The Joplin Globe reports that 28-year-old Jared Prier was charged Friday in Newton County Circuit Court with assault and armed criminal action. Authorities allege he twice shot a man in the stomach ...

12 years ago
Shawnee County is feeding its juvenile inmates more after finding behavior improves when portion sizes increase. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that in July the corrections department tried out doubling the portion size of the meals it serves youth detained at the Shawnee County Juvenile Detention Center. As part of the experiment, the sugary snack provided each ...

12 years ago
Two people have been arrested in the weekend kidnapping of an 8-year-old Topeka girl. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the girl was missing for nearly six hours when she was found Saturday afternoon more than two miles away from her home. Maj. Jerry Stanley says the preliminary investigation showed she had been assaulted. A man and woman ...

12 years ago
The pastor of Campus Christians at Pittsburg State University is scrambling to meet the demand for bicycles he fixes up and loans to students for the school year. Don Smith has been offering the service for decades, getting bikes in working order and loaning them out for a refundable $35 fee. The Morning Sun reports that this ...

12 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas is taking his conservative re-election message into the state's swing-voting east in his campaign against independent candidate Greg Orman. Roberts planned to greet football fans attending the University of Kansas game Saturday in Lawrence, a day after Secretary of State Kris Kobach began preparing ballots without a Democratic candidate. Roberts has ...

12 years ago
Data breaches at retailers aren't going away but there are ways consumers can protect themselves from future heists of their payment card information. Home Depot said Thursday that malicious software lurking in its check-out terminals between April and September affected 56 million debit and credit cards that customers swiped at its stores. Target, Michaels and Neiman ...

12 years ago
When a group of historians gathered last spring in Omaha to discuss the revival of teaching Middle America's history, among their plans had been to start an online Midwest history journal. Instead, this week they saw the University of Nebraska Press send out the inaugural print editions of the Middle West Review, an academic journal devoted ...

12 years ago
The Kansas City-area medical relief nonprofit Heart to Heart International is sending a team to West Africa to assess how its volunteers could help with the Ebola crisis. The Kansas City Star reports the four medical professionals plan to leave Sunday for a weeklong fact-finding trip in Liberia. Heart to Heart, based in Olathe (oh-LAY'-thuh), provides medical ...

12 years ago
Court documents show a 30-year-old Kansas man accused of fatally shooting a Topeka police officer earlier this month told investigators he had used methamphetamine two hours before the incident. Ross Preston Lane is charged with capital murder in the Sept. 7 shooting death of 40-year-old police Cpl. Jason Harwood during a routine traffic stop in Topeka. According ...