12 years ago
Kansas State Fair officials say a nearly 50-year-old barn and show ring is showing its age and needs to be replaced. The Hutchinson News reports the officials plan to ask the Legislature for money for the project. A contractor estimates that it would cost between $4.7 million and $5.5 million to demolish the building, known as ...

12 years ago
A Wichita man who appears on the national sex offender registry is charged with raping a 13-year-old girl. The Wichita Eagle reports a complaint filed in Sedgwick County District Court charges 40-year-old Terrill L. Andrews with having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl late last week. Police reported receiving a call Saturday from a woman saying the ...

12 years ago
Authorities in northwest Kansas are looking for whoever took a sledgehammer to a race car at the RPM Speedway in Hays. The Hays Daily News reports that the damage apparently happened Saturday as driver Chadd Brown was watching the final three races with relatives. Brown had left his modified dirt-track racer on an open trailer in ...

12 years ago
The end of the partial federal shutdown means Kansas National Historic Sites will reopen, the military is resuming normal training schedules and checks are being issued to participants in a special nutrition program. Across Kansas Thursday, federal employees were returning to their posts, including the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene. Army units also ...

12 years ago
Soldiers at Fort Riley will be able to resume normal training and education functions as the flow of federal money resumes to the nation's military. Activities had been curtailed for more than two weeks during the partial federal government shutdown. Maj. Martin O'Donnell, spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, says Thursday that ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Department of Transportation is initiating a study of the K-4 Corridor in Saline County from I-135, east to the east side of Gypsum. According to KDOT, the goal of the study is to identify areas where improvements could be made to improve safety and ease of travel along this corridor. Over the next several ...

12 years ago
With the partial government shutdown over, Kansas officials have begun issuing assistance checks again to women participating in a nutrition program. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says Thursday that local clinics could start issuing assistance checks for use in November and December. Payments were halted Oct. 9 for the Women, Infant and Children ...

12 years ago
Douglas County officials are considering changes to a new policy that was designed to promote tourism in agricultural areas. County commissioners voted Wednesday to ask the Lawrence-Douglas County Commission to draft changes to the "agritourism" zoning codes. The commission also imposed a moratorium on new agritourism permits until April 30, 2014. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the zoning ...

12 years ago
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reopening operations following the shutdown of the federal government. This includes visitor centers, boat ramps and similar facilities that are typically open this time of year at all 18 of the district’s lake projects. The following camping areas will be reopened by Friday: -Clinton Lake, Kan. – Woodridge ...

12 years ago
Ceiling tile demolition, sound and light removal and installation of new sound and light systems make up the completed first phase of the Capital Improvement Plan approved by the Salina City Commission for the Global Spectrum-managed Salina Bicentennial Center in December of 2012. The original sound system, consisting of one central cluster of directional speakers, has ...

12 years ago
Wichita police say a 7-year-old girl was left at school while her parents allegedly were trying to buy drugs. The girl was left at a south Wichita elementary school Tuesday while waiting to be picked up. When the parents didn't show up, the child's grandmother asked police to go to the girl's home to check ...