12 years ago
A 16-year-old Pratt High School football player has died after his car crossed the center line and struck a semitrailer in south-central Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 16-year-old Drake Evert was killed in the crash at 6:38 a.m. on K-61 near Preston. The Wichita Eagle reports the truck driver, Robert Myerski of Pennsylvania, was taken ...

12 years ago
Waters True Value of Salina has donated a helping hand and key essentials to the residents of Lindsborg. Major flooding affected approximately 125 homes and left an estimated $3.8 million in damage earlier this week. Waters True Value employees set out on Wednesday morning to deliver over $1,000 of merchandise to the Lindsborg Convention ...

12 years ago
About half of parents enrolling their students for USD 305 schools for the upcoming school year used the new on-line process. According to USD 305, about 77 percent of the total student body is currently enrolled. Of those that are now enrolled, about 39 percent of them participated in walk-in enrollment at their respective schools on Wednesday ...

12 years ago
A Sedgwick County judge imposed a Hard 50 prison sentence on a man convicted of killing a Wichita woman while he was on parole for another murder in Lawrence. Tyrone Walker was sentenced Thursday for strangling 44-year-old Janis Sanders in June 2011. He had been paroled in February of that year after serving a 12-year sentence ...

12 years ago
Yesterday, three teens got into an altercation at the Making The Connection group home in Salina. The victims, boys, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were in an argument with a 15-year-old boy. The argument soon escalated when the youngest of the three drew a knife and cut the two older boys. The cuts were superficial and needed no ...

12 years ago
About 75 residents affected by Monday's flash flood in Lindsborg, gathered at the town's middle school Thursday night to get an update from city officials. City Administrator Greg DuMars told the group that having FEMA declare the event a disaster are slim. "The bench marks for initial declarations deal with public infrastructure, either losses, damages or expenses ...

12 years ago
On July 24, Christopher Hallock started to notice that items of his were disappearing. Hallock, 38, reported to police yesterday the theft of a wide assortment of his property ranging from gold earrings to Applebee's gift cards. There were never any signs of forced entry into his home on the 2000 block of Linden Lane and it ...

12 years ago
Kansas concealed carry permit holders will now be allowed to carry their weapons in Wyoming. Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Friday that Wyoming has become the 32nd state to honor permits issued in Kansas. The decision is a result of legislation passed by Kansas lawmakers this year. The law recognizes all valid out-of-state permits when ...

12 years ago
A hunting guide has pleaded no contest to criminal hunting charges, admitting that he took hunters and a television crew onto property he didn't have permission to hunt. Thirty-year-old Adam Gilkey of McPherson, who operates High Caliber Outdoors, was fined $250 on Wednesday for an incident that occurred last December near Hutchinson. Gilkey was ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas has received a $2 million gift to establish the first counseling psychology professorship in the School of Education. The university said in a news release Thursday that it's the second-largest gift to the School of Education. The donor wanted to remain anonymous. Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, said the donor ...

12 years ago
The recent spate of wet weather has caused flash floods and other headaches in much of Kansas, but the rain is also replenishing some lakes that communities rely on for water. In Butler County east of Wichita, Santa Fe Lake and Augusta City Lake both dried up amid severe drought two years ago. KWCH-TV reports that Santa ...