13 years ago
The future seemed so tantalizing just two years ago as the nation's big oil firms rushed into Kansas. They snapped up mineral leases from landowners for high prices and drilled horizontal wells to extract unknown riches from the same Mississippian Lime formation that had spawned an oil boom in neighboring Oklahoma. Now most of those big players ...

13 years ago
Hutchinson officials are exploring the possibility of making improvements to a sports arena in order to keep a national junior college basketball tournament in town. The city has issued a request for qualifications to find an architectural firm to determine the scope and costs of making changes to the 61-year-old arena. The National Junior College Athletic Association ...

13 years ago
Two people are hurt in a crash in rural Ottawa County late Saturday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 23-year-old Christopher Walker of Wichita was driving a Dodge Dakota pickup truck headed west on a rural road. He lost control. The truck slid into the ditch and overturned, coming to rest on its wheels facing ...

13 years ago
Democrats and Republicans are looking to military veterans to help them pick up seats in next year's congressional elections. Strategists say that veterans can capitalize on the public's high regard for military service and the public's disdain for Washington. In some of the most competitive House races, Democrats are pushing eight challengers who either served in the ...

13 years ago
A sport utility vehicle has crashed into a suburban Kansas City coffee shop, sending five people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. KSHB-TV reports that the SUV's driver told Gladstone police she thought her car was in reverse rather than drive Friday morning when she slammed into the Starbucks. Besides the five taken to the ...

13 years ago
Authorities say a pair of dogs have killed 10 alpacas and injured a llama on a farmstead in south-central Kansas. Reno County Sheriff's Sgt. Troy Selby says that the attack happened Thursday night in western Sylvia. The Hutchinson News reports that farmstead owner Michael Murphy fatally shot one of the dogs, and authorities were searching for ...

13 years ago
One of four defendants in a deadly shooting near a Topeka high school is seeking to withdraw his plea. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 24-year-old Coty Newman, of Topeka, pleaded guilty in March in Shawnee County District Court to felony first-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. Twenty-year-old Matthew Mitchell was killed in October 2010 near Topeka West ...

13 years ago
Down 27-6 to start the fourth quarter, it looked bleak for Salina South in the Class 5A State Championship game against Blue Valley at Welch Stadium in Emporia. The Cougars would rally, and had a chance for the lead, but a two-point conversion pass fell short, and South lost 27-26 to the Tigers on Saturday. In the ...

13 years ago
No matter the outcome of Saturday's state championship football game in Emporia, one thing is for certain. A group of eight Salina South seniors who share a special bond will have played their last game together. A core group of seniors have played together on the same team since they were in grade school, with great ...

13 years ago
If you missed Friday night's special edition of Inside High School Football on SportsRadio 1150 KSAL, there's no need to worry. We have the entire show available for you right here. Mike Hammett and Todd Pittenger take a look back at the season and talk about three different story lines. Below, you will find the opening ...

13 years ago
Amtrak officials say a rail line is in need of additional funding in order to keep passenger service moving through southwest Kansas at a profitable speed. But the Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Amtrak needs to have the track maintained at a proper level so trains can move quickly and keep passenger service on time. The track is ...