12 years ago
Reno County authorities say they have recovered the body of a man who was reported missing after he went canoeing at Cheney Lake. Reno County Sheriff's Capt. Wayne Baughman says the body of 31-year-old Sheldon Martin of Hutchinson was recovered early Monday. The man's family reported him missing Sunday evening, after he did not return ...

12 years ago
LED Christmas lights are gaining traction as prices drop and retailers increase the amount of shelf space set aside for the energy-efficient bulbs. Wal-Mart is devoting half of its shelf space for Christmas lights to LEDs, which can save about 80 percent of the energy consumed by incandescent bulbs and can pay for themselves in two ...

12 years ago
Kansas school districts have a long tradition of going to court over funding for public education when their efforts fail in the Statehouse. Gov. Sam Brownback says he wants that to change and is encouraging legislators and superintendents from the state's 286 school districts to open discussions toward ending such litigation. The Republican governor says recent talks ...

12 years ago
A windy, mild Sunday will give way to cold and wintry weather by week's end. According to the National Weather Service, the peak wind gust on Sunday was in Russell, where a peak gust of 54 miles-per-hour was clocked. A 51 mile-per-hour- gust was clocked in Hutchinson. Wind reaching 49 miles-per-hour was clocked in several other ...

12 years ago
Newly obtained salary information shows 60 public university employees in Kansas earn more than $250,000 in state-paid wages. The salary information it obtained is for wages paid from July 2012 to this June. Three-quarters of the top earners were professors or administrators at the University of Kansas. Kansas State University employed eight of the upper earners and ...

12 years ago
Deadly severe weather rolled across the Midwest Sunday. Officials say that at least three people died when tornadoes hit central and southern Illinois. Melanie Arnold of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency says that a person was killed in Washington when a tornado struck that central Illinois community on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the county coroner in Washington ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman is hurt in a crash involving a deer. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 27-year-old Christine Munoz of Salina was driving a car early Saturday morning, headed west on K4 Highway, when a deer ran in front of her. Munoz swerved to avoid the deer, veered to the left across the center line, went ...

12 years ago
Fort Riley will honor international prisoners of war during a German and Italian Memorial Ceremony on Thursday at the post cemetery. During World War II, Fort Riley was designated as one of about 600 prisoner of war camps in the U.S. From 1943 to 1946, about 4,500 POWs were incarcerated at Fort Riley, where they performed ...

12 years ago
A Wichita school for children with autism is experimenting with robots to help students improve their human interaction, physical skills and emotional behavior. The Wichita Eagle reports the robots being used at Heartspring are programmed to dance, talk, recognize faces and speech and get up and calm themselves after falling and model appropriate greetings. Director of clinical ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a school bus driver's medical condition directly impacted the cause of a crash that injured the driver and 22 middle school students. The Kansas City Star reports the Aug. 21 accident outside Bonner Springs injured the driver and 22 sixth-grade girls from the Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City. The injuries ...

12 years ago
A Saline County judge has suspended a prison sentence for a 32-year-old Kansas City rap artist convicted of shooting a man in Salina. Reginald “Dalima” Easterwood’s used a small caliber handgun to shoot a Salina man after a disturbance at the Howard Johnson Inn on E. Diamond Drive back in June. Shane Salyards was wounded in ...