12 years ago
A Kansas meat-packing company has announced plans to expand its operation in south-central Kansas. The Kansas Department of Commerce said Monday that Creekstone Farms Premium Beef will expand in Arkansas City. The Arkansas City-based beef processing company has 720 employees and anticipates hiring 300 more workers during the next five years. Creekstone Farms processes Black Angus beef ...

12 years ago
Lawrence police have called off a search for a 23-year-old University of Kansas student from Peru after finding a body matching the student's description. Gianfranco Villagomez, an industrial design student from Lima, Peru, was last seen walking near 9th and Michigan streets in Lawrence about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. His girlfriend reported him missing Saturday. Police ...

12 years ago
The Drug Task Force makes two arrests after neighbors make complaints. According to Task Force Commander Lt. Jim Norton, agents used a search warrant on Friday afternoon at 562 Uppermill Heights Drive, to enter the home after multiple complaints about suspected drug activity were made by area neighbors. Police arrested Michael N. Rodenbeek, 51 and 27-year-old Sean ...

12 years ago
More than 1,800 students will receive their degrees from Kansas State University later this week. Commencement ceremonies are planned for Friday and Saturday on the Manhattan campus and Friday at the Salina campus. Kansas State says in a news release that it will award more than 1,400 bachelor's degrees, nearly 300 master's degrees, 90 doctorates and ...

12 years ago
A southeast Kansas school superintendent says he was shocked to learn Gov. Sam Brownback was going to use welfare funds for a program aimed at raising fourth-grade reading scores. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Brownback recently announced a plan to take $12 million from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program to pay for the initiative in ...

12 years ago
A Salina man's truck is damaged by vandalism. Officers were called to the 1600 block of Beverly Drive on Friday after someone apparently slashed all four tires on 1999 Chevrolet pickup - plus a spare tire. The owner told police the truck was parked in the street when someone cut the tires sometime between Thursday night at ...

12 years ago
Newsradio 1150 KSAL is planning to take a group of fans to Arizona to be a part of the K-State bowl game experience. Kansas State is headed back to the desert, this time to face Michigan in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. The Wildcats (7-5) lost to Oregon 35-17 in last year’s Fiesta Bowl, but earned a ...

12 years ago
Kansas State Board of Education members will decide this week whether the state's new handwriting standards will encourage schools to make sure that fifth- and sixth-graders can write legibly in cursive. The handwriting standards are on the board's agenda for a Tuesday meeting. State law requires the board to regularly update academic standards. Multistate academic standards adopted by ...

12 years ago
Lawrence Police Officers are currently seeking information on the whereabouts of a University of Kansas student last seen early Saturday morning in central Lawrence. Gianfranco Villagomez-Saldana was last seen walking from a home near 9th and Michigan Street, towards his destination near 11th and Mississippi Street. Villagomez, a 23 year old University of Kansas graduate student ...

12 years ago
The area surrounding a central Topeka home in which three people were found shot to death has seen four other homicides in a little over six years. But The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/19471Wm ) that some residents say the Central Park neighborhood is a good one that has improved in recent years. Topeka police still have not ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas town wants to use a movie theater that is believed to be among the nation's oldest to tell the history of early cinema. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that newly discovered photos and newspaper clippings show that films have been shown at what is now The Plaza Grill and Cinema in Ottawa since 1905. ...