12 years ago
The Atchison County Sheriff's Office says an alligator that was released into a county lake has been reunited with its owner. Investigators say Waylon Saxton was unlikely to face charges after his alligator, named Cletus, was discovered shot and wounded in the lake after he disappeared last month. Saxton says his alligator disappeared during a party at ...

12 years ago
A couple's spat with bureaucracy has led to the creation of a folk-art installation that draws about 2,000 visitors each year to their Topeka-area farm. It started when officials told Ron and Linda Lessman the rusty trucks on their property were a hazard because they live in a flood plain. But instead of moving them, Ron ...

12 years ago
One of Salina's largest employers is temporarily closed to begin the week. Officials from Exide Technologies tell KSAL News that the plant is closed on Sunday, and it could possibly be closed again Monday. An electrical problem prompted the closure. Officials anticipate business as usual once the problem is fixed. Exide employees are asked to contact their supervisor ...

12 years ago
Wichita police say a man reported missing last week has been found dead in a pond. Sgt. Jim Merrick says drivers passing the pond spotted the body in the water Saturday evening and called 911. He says the man's family reported him missing Friday. The man's identity and cause of death have not been released. Merrick says ...

12 years ago
Pittsburg State University students on a charter bus to the Kansas City area are safe after the bus caught fire. University officials told The Joplin Globe the students were headed to the annual Fraternal Leadership Summit in Overland Park when the bus caught fire early Saturday. The bus was heavily damaged, but no injuries were reported. About ...

12 years ago
A Wichita woman and a couple from Augusta have worked to find the family of a World War I soldier awarded the Army's second-highest honor decades ago. Patti McDonough was helping her mother go through some of her deceased father's things in May and when she found a stack of papers that included awards and honors ...

12 years ago
Authorities in Johnson County say two robberies and an attempted robbery appear to be related. The first incident happened Friday morning in an Overland Park parking lot when an armed man forced a woman to drive to her bank and withdraw money. Another woman reported later being robbed in an Overland Park parking lot by an armed ...

12 years ago
An autopsy report says the 24-year-old suspect killed in a 32-hour standoff with police in Wichita was high on meth and painkillers and died of multiple gunshot wounds. Police said Jared Lee Woosypiti had been wanted for attempted first-degree murder in a July stabbing in Derby when the standoff began July 10, shortly after Woosypiti fired ...

12 years ago
Cleanup continues in Hays from the freight train derailment last month. A Union Pacific freight train derailed at the Hays rail yard on July 16. Three of the derailed cars contained beer, six had wood products and one had poultry meal. UP says the contractor responsible for removing the chicken meal has completed transferring the stockpile to ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction and sentence of a man imprisoned for raping a child. Eric Ochs was sentenced to life in prison with an eligibility of parole after 25 years in the 2009 rape of an 11-year-old girl. He was 21 at the time. Ochs argued on appeal that the closing statement in ...

12 years ago
Sedgwick County is asking for the public's help in fighting the growing problem of copper thefts. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office received 42 copper-specific theft reports between Aug. 15 and the same date last year. Air conditioning units at homes and businesses, copper awnings and parts of agricultural irrigation systems are all targets. Even ...