12 years ago
Auctioneers say a 9,100-acre ranch in south-central Kansas has been sold to seven buyers for a total of $13.5 million. The ranch in Greenwood County was owned by the Frank N. Bills Living Trust. The trust decided to sale the ranch after Bills died in January at the age of 70. The ranch was broken ...

12 years ago
The Kansas congressional delegation will be talking about taxes with independent oil producers. Their session Monday at this year annual Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association convention in Wichita is titled "Over the Cliff — Digging in on Taxes." Expected panelists include U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts along with U.S. Reps. Mike Pompeo, Kevin Yoder, Lynn Jenkins and ...

12 years ago
Two people have been killed after a single-engine plane crashed at a small airport near downtown Kansas City. Fire spokesman James Garrett says the single-engine plane crashed shortly after taking off Sunday afternoon from the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport. Garrett says the two people killed were the only two people on the plane. No other ...

12 years ago
The Sedgwick County prosecutor's office says it's not pursuing charges in a rollover crash that killed 14-year-old Derby boy. Braxton Kooser died in January after the SUV he was in veered off a rural Sedgwick County road. Kooser, who was thrown from the vehicle, died at the scene. Three other teenagers in the vehicle were injured. Sedgwick ...

12 years ago
School officials in Louisburg met with students this weekend after a senior at the school was killed in a vehicle accident. Auston McLellan, a senior quarterback at Louisburg High School, died from injuries he sustained in the crash Saturday night. The Miami County Sheriff's Office says McLellan, who was 17, died after the car he was ...

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 ...