12 years ago
The Kansas Court of Appeal has ruled that the state's top water regulator doesn't have power to reduce a landowner's water rights once a permit has been issue. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that this month's decision could limit the state's ability to conserve water resources in the dwindling Ogallala Aquifer. In the ruling, the appeals court also ...

12 years ago
Kansas officials are expecting policymakers to take a wait-and-see approach to taxes during the 2014 session, content to let the changes take hold and build on anecdotal evidence of economic growth. Gov. Sam Brownback and the Republican-controlled Legislature focused during the 2012 and 2013 sessions on eliminating income taxes for some 200,000 businesses and adjusting the ...

12 years ago
Wichita police say a man lost a fingertip when he tried to reach into a car to get his stolen wallet back. Police say that the wallet was taken from the victim's unlocked car early Friday. When the man reached into the car driven by the thief, police said, the thief rolled up the window and ...

12 years ago
Kansas health officials are investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness among patrons of a Garden City restaurant. The state and Finney County health departments said more than 110 cases of the illness were reported as of Friday among people who ate food from a Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches restaurant. Authorities are asking anyone who ate food from ...

12 years ago
A southeast Kansas farmer whose video parody "What Does the Farmer Say" went viral last month has a new hit with his take on a Miley Cyrus song that features twerking cows. Derek Klingenberg's spoof of "What Does the Fox Say?" got more than 4 million views online. The Peabody resident's new video dubbed "Feeding Cattle ...

12 years ago
Salina police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old male child, and two arrests are made. Lt. Shawn Morton says the death was reported at 10:30 Thursday night in South Salina. A man and a woman were initially being questioned. According to police,​ at this time, the Death is investigating this incident as a homicide. The ...

12 years ago
A proof-of-citizenship requirement for Kansas voters is likely to come under attack once the Legislature opens its annual session in January. But the debate over the policy championed by Secretary of State Kris Kobach also will play in out in federal court. The law took effect at the start of 2013. More than 19,000 Kansas residents have ...

12 years ago
Kansas is set to begin a drug testing program next year for some welfare recipients similar to a Missouri program that cost about $500,000 and turned up fewer than two dozen people who tested positive. After eight months, and 636 drug test requests, Missouri's program this year cost nearly $500,000 and found 20 people who tested ...

12 years ago
Elevators that carry dozens of workers daily between the Kansas Statehouse and its underground parking garage have been knocked out of service by a Christmas Eve sprinkler leak. Statehouse Architect Barry Greis said Thursday that water damaged the electronic systems for the two elevators. He isn't certain when they'll be working again. The leak complicated efforts to ...

12 years ago
The parent company of Cessna Aircraft says it has reached an agreement to buy Beechcraft Corporation for approximately $1.4 billion. The purchase was announced Thursday night by Providence, Rhode Island based Textron Incorporated and would bring two mainstays of Wichita's general aviation industry under a single corporate leadership. Textron chairman and CEO Scott Donnelly said in a ...

12 years ago
Republican Senate candidates have to settle an intraparty fight over the problem-plagued federal health care law before they can use the new law to target Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections. GOP incumbents running for re-election are among virtually all Republican candidates who oppose President Barack Obama's signature law. The question is what should be done ...