12 years ago
Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo says he will vote in support of authorizing a U.S. strike on Syria. The Republican congressman spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press by phone from Israel. Pompeo is traveling to several Middle Eastern countries this week as part of his role on the House Intelligence Committee. The rest of ...

12 years ago
A man who decided to commit a robbery in southwest Missouri walked into the wrong liquor store. The clerk at the Beer 30 in Marionville on Sunday night, Jon Lewis Alexander, is a 30-year military man, former prison guard and the owner of a loaded handgun that he always keeps with him. A store ...

12 years ago
Butler County's sheriff has sent detectives to southwest Kansas in search of a man suspected of shooting one of his deputies. The search for 41-year-old Jan Tracy Kilbourne has entered its third day since he exchanged gunfire with a Butler County deputy around 5:15 a.m. Monday. A bullet hit the deputy in the shoulder but most ...

12 years ago
Thieves hit a Salina woman's home while she is away. Police say that sometime between Saturday and Tuesday multiple items were stolen from a home at 1436 Cheyenne. The owner was away, and when she returned she found that the house had been rummaged  through and multiple items were missing. Missing items include a 52" television, a ...

12 years ago
A legislative effort to repeal a Kansas law requiring new voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering has stalled. The House refused Tuesday to consider a proposal to rescind the policy, which took effect in January. The proposal from Wichita Democrat Jim Ward would have allowed new voters to simply affirm that they are citizens, ...

12 years ago
Legislation revamping a Kansas law imposing an automatic 50-year sentence on some convicted murderers is now in the state Senate. The House passed the measure 122-0 Tuesday on the first day of a special session prompted by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a similar law in Virginia. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to ...

12 years ago
The Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the Fort Hood shooting rampage has been forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan began growing a beard in the years after the November 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 30 wounded. The beard prompted delays to his court-martial because it violated Army grooming regulations. Hasan is at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., ...

12 years ago
A former Kansas Court of Appeals research attorney faces a disciplinary hearing for derogatory comments she tweeted during the same kind of hearing last year for former state Attorney General Phill Kline. WIBW-AM reports  the hearing for Sarah Peterson Herr was scheduled Tuesday for Dec. 20. Herr posted the comments last Nov. 15 while Kline was appearing ...

12 years ago
The Kansas House has approved changes to a state law that automatically imposes a 50-year sentence on some convicted murderers, a move sparked by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a similar law in Virginia. Tuesday's 122-0 vote came on the first day of a special session called by Gov. Sam Brownback to fix ...

12 years ago
A judge has ordered a southeast Kansas woman to spend 30 days in jail followed by three years' probation for the death of her 4-month-old son. KOAM-TV reports 25-year-old Heather Buckalew, of Arma, was sentenced Tuesday in Crawford County District Court. Buckalew pleaded no contest in July to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Memphis Cash Harvey ...

12 years ago
President Barack Obama is appointing a known critic of the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial design to serve on the federal commission that oversees the project, weighing into a lingering debate over the memorial's future. The White House announced plans to appoint former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman Bruce Cole last month, but ...