12 years ago
A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2011 stabbing death of a Garden City man. Fred Schmidt pleaded guilty on Feb. 11 to second-degree murder in the March 29, 2011, stabbing death of 24-year-old Jeffrey Nichols. The Garden City Telegram reports Finney County District Court Judge Robert Frederick sentenced Schmidt Friday ...

12 years ago
A federal agency's final report about its technical investigation into the 2011 Joplin tornado calls for nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, and public shelters and emergency communications to reduce deaths caused by tornadoes. The final report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology was released Friday and doesn't alter any of the ...

12 years ago
There were no serious injuries in a head-on crash early Saturday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 86-year-old Angel Zaval of Salina was driving a 2007 Nissan pickup headed west on K18 Highway near Talmage. She went left of center and collided head-on with an oncoming car. Two women in the car, 30-year-old Amanda Wuehler from ...

12 years ago
New census figures show that more people have been moving out of Kansas than have recently been moving in. Census data released Thursday shows that from 2010 to 2013, Kansas lost about 10,000 people because of outward migration. The census also showed that Kansas gained more than 16,000 people from international migration over the last ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a strong odor of alcohol from inside a motor vehicle isn't enough to justify a search by law enforcement officers without a warrant. The court ruled for a Sedgwick County man convicted of possessing methamphetamine discovered by officers who searched his SUV after smelling alcohol they suspected had ...

12 years ago
A semi tractor-trailer crashed into an unmanned toll booth on the Kansas Turnpike in northeast Kansas, killing a 30-year-old Colorado man who was in the truck. A second person in the tractor-trailer was hospitalized in critical condition after the crash, which occurred about 3 a.m. Saturday when the truck ran into the toll booth on westbound ...

12 years ago
That question asked in a music video created by Emporia State students that went viral last month has now been explained. In a song titled “What is an Ichabod”, 23-year-old Washburn student Brail Watson explains how the school, founded in 1865, was accepting of blacks and women about a century before the Civil Rights Movement. Watson, a ...

12 years ago
A little more is on the line Saturday night than who wins and who loses when the Salina Bombers head to Dodg City to play the Law. The Prairie Week Trophy is also at stake. After the game representatives from the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce and the Dodge City Area Chamber of Commerce will present ...

12 years ago
After spending all of Thursday afternoon answering questions asked by the prosecution, a co-defendant in a Salina murder trial was questioned by the defense on Friday. Joel Heil, one of three people accused in the disappearance and murder of Kristin Tyler in Salina last Spring, described the murder in depth Thursday. He implicated Dane DeWeese, who ...

12 years ago
Saturday is just the day for those longing for a day at the lake. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is hosting “Spring Into Summer”. According to the agency, “Spring Into Summer” features free entrance and open houses at all Kansas state parks. Most parks will host special activities for the whole family to ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas will join Oklahoma in suing the federal government over the addition of the lesser prairie chicken to its list of threatened species. Brownback announced his state's response Friday during a news conference. Oklahoma sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court last week, challenging the process under which the ...