12 years ago
The Kansas Fire Marshal is drawing fire for his efforts to reinstate oversight of the explosive industry in the state. The fire marshal lost legal authority to issue permits to explosive industry operators in 2010, when an assistant attorney general mistakenly deleted the authority for the agency to do so. Temporary rules were imposed June 28. On ...

12 years ago
Former Sen. Bob Dole and the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower have agreed to serve as honorary leaders of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election team for 2014. The Republican governor announced Tuesday that Dole and Mary Jean Eisenhower will be the national co-chairmen of his campaign. Kansas Democratic Party spokesman Dakota Loomis said the announcement isn't ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is celebrating an agreement between Kansas and central China's Henan province as a significant development in their trade relationship. Brownback said Monday the state and the province have agreed to work on projects related to agriculture, food safety and the biosciences that include education, research, and developing commercial projects from research. Brownback and Henan's ...

12 years ago
Kansas utility regulators are considering new rules to require oil and natural gas companies to disclose some information about the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The Topeka Capital Journal reports the Kansas Corporation Commission outlined the proposed rules to legislators on Monday. The KCC also plans a public hearing Aug. 10 in Wichita ...

12 years ago
An eastern Kansas man plans to pay off his house, buy a swing set and make some investments with the $1 million he won in the latest Powerball drawing. The Kansas Lottery says 43-year-old Nelson Worley, of Osawatomie, matched the first five numbers but not the Powerball number in Saturday night's drawing. The jackpot was $141 ...

12 years ago
Sedgwick County officials working to keep the Judge Riddel Boys Ranch open are suggesting the state should create a new classification of residential centers for juveniles.   The suggestion would create a new tier of residential juvenile homes, with the state paying more for the service.   The Riddel center in Goodard is classified as a youth residential centers ...

12 years ago
The city of Independence has declared a water emergency after a powerful thunderstorm knocked out power to the local treatment plant.   Officials told The Independence Daily Reporter it could be 18 hours before Westar Energy can repair the damage caused by the storm around 8 a.m. Monday in the southeastern Kansas community.   The outage occurred when a ...

12 years ago
Authorities say a 29-year-old woman died when she was hit by a vehicle while riding her bicycle.   The Kansas Highway Patrol says Hayley M. Berrios died Sunday evening while riding her bike on the South Lawrence Trafficway at 27th Street in Lawrence. She was declared dead at the scene.   A 67-year-old Lawrence man who was driving the ...

12 years ago
An 89-year-old Salina woman finally has some peace of mind, knowing that her daughter's grave in Afghanistan has not been disturbed by the war in that country.   Ruby McBee had to leave her daughter's grave behind when she and her husband left that country in 1955. Their 10-year-old daughter, Marilyn, died in 1954 from polio and ...

12 years ago
Police arrest a man who allegedly left a Central Mall store with a bag full of clothing. Officers located 44-year-old Marquis Richardson of Salina, around 8pm on Friday night, near the corner of 9th and Saturn and arrested him on charges of shoplifting. Police say he walked out of the Sears store with a bag filled ...

12 years ago
A Salina man falls victim to a wire fraud scam. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, last week a 55-year-old Salina man answered an ad to help a company do a customer survey on Western Union and Advance America wire services. Police say a company listed as IMC Research Services, sent a bogus check in the amount ...