12 years ago
Former Kansas Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee has been named by a group of business and civic leaders as the spokeswoman for its efforts to promote wind energy. Kansans for Wind Energy says Brownlee will travel across the state to meet with grassroots supporters. The group's director, Richard Martin, praised Brownlee as a conservative with a reputation for ...

12 years ago
Wichita police say a woman has been hospitalized after she set herself on fire in a store parking lot. The woman bought material inside a Lowe's store before she set herself on fire Sunday evening. Several people tried to help the woman, whose identity wasn't released. Police said the woman is in critical ...

12 years ago
A historic but rundown home built by one of Dodge City's earliest sheriffs is getting new life as residence, this time for low-income farm workers. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports a Hutchinson-based group called Interfaith Housing Services has renovated the home built in 1880 by George Hinkle. He defeated Bat Masterson to become the city's ...

12 years ago
An adoptive father has died from injuries suffered in a double shooting that killed his wife and led to criminal charges against the couple's son. The Wichita Eagle reports that Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter has confirmed that 48-year-old Roger Bluml died Saturday morning. Bluml had been hospitalized since he and his wife, Melissa Bluml, each ...

12 years ago
The weekend snow assures a white Christmaa for a large portion of Kansas. For it to go in the record books as a white Christmas there must be at least an inch of snow on the ground Christmas Day. Temperatures are forecast to be below freezing through Christmas day, so any snow on the ground is ...

12 years ago
University leaders say cuts to the Kansas Bioscience Authority budget could have a negative impact on the state. The KBA invests tax dollars in and nurtures new companies in the biosciences and life sciences fields. It's been operating on a budget of more than $35 million per year in some years. State funding support, however, has ...

12 years ago
Sandy Praeger is approaching her final year as Kansas insurance commissioner with a national reputation for expertise on health care issues and a lengthy, unbroken string of election victories as a Republican in a GOP-leaning state. But Praeger acknowledges that she'd have trouble emerging from next year's GOP primary. The reason is the unusual niche she's carved ...

12 years ago
Army Chaplain Jeremiah Catlin is running marathons, but it's taken him six years to get there after beating Stage 4 melanoma. The Wichita, Kansas, native discovered a lump growing on his chest while deployed to Iraq in 2007. Army doctors told the 32-year-old to go home and celebrate the last Christmas he would ever have. He says he ...

12 years ago
Kansas authorities reported numerous slide-offs and one fatal wreck as a winter storm brought a mixture of freezing rain and snow this weekend. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for a large section of central and eastern Kansas, and winter weather advisories extended into the southwest portion of Kansas. Freezing rain started Friday night in ...

12 years ago
The family of President Dwight D. Eisenhower says his son, 91-year-old John S.D. Eisenhower, has died. The retired brigadier general and military historian had resided on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the community of Trappe, Md. No cause was given for his death Saturday. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was born in Denver in 1922 to Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

12 years ago
An anonymous donor has put up a $50,000 cash reward toward solving the 1999 disappearance of a southeast Kansas boy. Adam Joseph Herrman was 11 when he vanished from his adoptive family's mobile home in the Butler County town of Towanda. The parents never reported him missing, and the case only came to light when an ...