12 years ago
The Eisenhower Presidential Library is continuing its Kansas Town Hall series with an upcoming discussion of climate change. A panel discussion will follow. Participants will include a Kansas legislator, an agricultural expert, a University of Kansas geography professor and an agronomist from Kansas State University. Admission is free. The program takes place Saturday from 2 to 4 ...

12 years ago
The body of a Hoisington man is recovered from Wilson Lake. According to the Russell County Sheriff's Office, on Saturday night at 8:43 they received a call of a missing man in the Rock Town area of Lake Wilson. The Sheriffs Office along with officers from Wild Life and Parks, Corp of Engineers, Russell City Fire ...

12 years ago
Divers have found a woman’s body inside a car that apparently drove off a southern Johnson County bridge. The discovery was made Sunday. The car was upside down in the water. The woman’s name wasn’t immediately released. Authorities are investigating the accident. --- Associated Press information from: The Kansas City Star

12 years ago
When the bulls and horses, cowboys, livestock exhibitors, and fans converge on Abilene for the annual fair and rodeo, so do the bucks. And it’s not the bulls that provide the “bucks.” It’s the “presidential flashcards” that the attendees spend in town. The Central Kansas Free Fair and Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo generate about $1.8 million ...

12 years ago
Two Los Angeles-based filmmakers are preparing to shoot a movie about a family of southeast Kansas innkeepers who killed about a dozen travelers in the 1870s. The film will be called "The Bender Claim." Director John Alexander called it a "Hitchcock-like psychological thriller." He and producer JC Guest will shoot the movie from July 10 through ...

12 years ago
Authorities have recovered the body of a teenager from a Clay County pond. 15-year-old Tommy Watt was swimming with a friend and began struggling to make it to the shore of the pond near Longford. The Clay County sheriff said the friend was attempting to aid Watt when he submerged and didn't resurface. Clay County authorities were ...

12 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a lengthy prison sentence against a Kansas State University student who set a fire that killed a university researcher. They're urging U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson to sentence Patrick Martin Scahill to 40 years in prison on Monday. Federal sentencing guidelines recommend 27 to 33 years. ...

12 years ago
A Kansas doctor has a crucial court hearing this week in her fight to regain her medical license after state regulators revoked it over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. Attorneys for both Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus and the State Board of Healing Arts expect Friday's hearing in Shawnee County District Court to be ...

12 years ago
Weather officials in Tornado Alley have raised concerns about a scene in the new Superman movie that incorrectly portrays a highway overpass as a safe place to hide during a tornado. The Wichita Eagle reports that in the "Man of Steel," Clark Kent's dad sees a tornado approaching as he's driving with his family. He then ...

12 years ago
Crews have recovered the body of a northwest Kansas man who was the subject of a search over the weekend at a Geary County lake. KJCK-AM reports Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf has confirmed a body recovered early Monday at Milford Lake is that of a Junction City man, but he didn't immediately have more details. Wolf ...

12 years ago
A dirt bike is removed from a rural outbuilding. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a motorcycle is stolen. The owner told deputies that someone entered a storage shed on their property in the 7000 block of E. Mentor Road, sometime on June 12th and removed a 2006 Honda dirt bike that is red and ...