13 years ago
A stolen pickup truck is recovered in Russell. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, police are investigating the theft and damage of a pickup that was stolen from Hico Motors, 645 N. Santa Fe, sometime between October 9th and October 14th. The 1991 Chevy truck, valued at $4,000 was located in Russell - because staff at Hico Motors ...

13 years ago
A vehicle is damaged on a Salina auto lot. Police say $648 in damage was done to a 2014 Nissan Altima that is owned by Marshall Motors, 3550 S. 9th. Police report that sometime between Saturday night at 8pm and Monday morning around 9am, someone came onto the lot and removed the tire and rim off the ...

13 years ago
A 72-year-old Minneapolis, Kansas, man is sentenced to more than seven years in prison for shooting his granddaughter and her husband in November 2012. Johnnie R. Kilpatrick was sentenced Monday for two counts of aggravated battery. He originally was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the November 2012 shootings of Emily Ramos-Powell ...

13 years ago
Hunters are urged to be alert for illegal marijuana grows. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men were in connection with a cultivated marijuana grow found on the Lower Ferguson Marsh on the Perry Wildlife Area. Hunters reported what they thought that was a “weed ...

13 years ago
About 75 engineers from the Kansas National Guard are heading to Colorado this week to help rebuild highways damaged by massive flooding. The Kansans expect to leave for Boulder on Wednesday and remain in Colorado for 18 days. The units supplying Kansas Guard members include the 891st Engineer Battalion based in Iola, the 226th Engineer Company from ...

13 years ago
The Kansas State Board of Education is taking a look at the possible effects of new federal rules aimed at ensuring public schools provide healthy snacks to students. The agenda for the board's Tuesday meeting includes a presentation about standards announced this summer by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Starting in July 2014, the USDA will require ...

13 years ago
The Butler County Sheriff says a woman is in custody after a decomposing body was found in the backyard of a house southwest of Augusta. Sheriff Kelly Herzet say officers found the body after a neighbor called asking for a welfare check at the home. The homeowner was later arrested and is facing charges of voluntary ...

13 years ago
A three-year project to improve a stretch of Interstate 70 in far northwest Kansas has been completed. The Kansas Department of Transportation marked the milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday at the Travel Information Center west of Goodland. Crews rebuilt 12 miles of eastbound and westbound lanes of I-70 from the Colorado border east into ...

13 years ago
Civilians who were furloughed at two Kansas National Guard maintenance sites by the federal shutdown are being called back to work. The Adjutant General's Department said Monday that 126 of the 263 federally funded state employees who were furloughed Oct. 1 will go back to work at sites in Salina and Fort Riley. The employees ...

13 years ago
Kansas has paid two private law firms more than $913,000 to help it defend anti-abortion laws enacted since conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback took office. The attorney general's office disclosed the figures in response to requests from The Associated Press. The payments included $126,000 for the defense of new restrictions enacted earlier this year. President ...

13 years ago
The current U.S. Farm Bill is in its second extension. This, coupled with other issues that currently affect U.S. agriculture, including but not limited to feeding a growing world population, competing in world export markets, climate change and biotechnology, created the need for industry experts to talk through potential solutions. Kansas State University's next Landon ...