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A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper is hospitalized after he was injured during a routine traffic stop on the Kansas Turnpike in east Wichita. The patrol says the trooper had pulled over a semi-trailer truck for a routine inspection Tuesday evening when his vehicle was hit from behind by a pickup truck. The trooper was taken to Wesley ...

12 years ago
Kansas youths are hosting a day-long immigration conference and legislative forum in Wichita this weekend. Carlos Vargas and Erika Andiola, co-founders of the national Dream Act Coalition, will join a group of youths involved locally with the Kansas People's Action. The six-hour conference on "Keeping the Dream Alive" begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at 1751 N. ...

12 years ago
The Kansas House is preparing to debate legislation restricting the identifiable information collected on public school students. The bill on Wednesday's calendar also restricts who could view the information. Supporters want to create additional safeguards to protect the identity of students and limit disclosure of that information to specific agencies. Those authorized to see the data include ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Wesleyan University football team is forming a bond with a team of soldiers in Afghanistan. As part of new head coach Matt Drinkall's "Storm the Beaches"  program, the team has adopted Fort Riley’s, 1st Infantry Division, Combat Aviation Brigade, 601st Aviation Support Battalion. The team gathered Tuesday night to prepare care packages for the soldiers. The packages ...

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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed legislation pushed by fellow Republicans making it harder for voters to switch parties before primary elections.  The bill signed Tuesday bars voters who register with one party from switching their affiliation from June 1 in an election year until after results from August party primaries are certified. June 1 is ...

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Jurors heard a full day of testimony Tuesday in a trial stemming from a Salina murder. Prosecutors said they would prove how 33-year-old Dane DeWeese helped in the murder of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler, saying they would provide testimony on how she was beaten with a chain and her face was held underwater. Last Spring Tyler went missing. ...

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Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is optimistic legislators are getting closer to a school funding solution to satisfy a Kansas Supreme Court ruling, though he would like to see more of the new spending directed toward classrooms. A plan emerged Monday night that would increase spending by $129 million in two areas identified as unconstitutional by ...

12 years ago
A woman pleaded no contest to planning the shooting death of a former Kansas high school football player. Twenty-two-year-old Ebony Nguyen entered the plea Monday to felony first-degree murder. She was scheduled to go on trial this week for premeditated first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the 2013 death of former Wichita South ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Lottery says that someone is holding a Powerball ticket worth $1 million. The ticket for Saturday night's drawing in the multistate game was sold in the northeastern part of Kansas. Lottery officials said Monday it matched the first five numbers in the drawing, but not the Powerball. Saturday's numbers were 13-28-31-55-58, Powerball 15. A single ...

12 years ago
Scant rain across most of Kansas has led to declining soil moisture levels as the condition of the winter wheat crop continues to decline. In its weekly update, the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that less than half of Kansas is reporting adequate soil moisture supplies. The agency rated the condition of the emerging winter wheat ...

12 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo was a popular place to be last week. According to the organization, a record number of visitors passed through the gates. The zoo says that from Saturday, March 15th through Sunday, March 23rd they welcomed 5,633 visitors to the Zoo and Wildlife Museum. Many area students were on Spring break during the time ...