12 years ago
A federal judge is scheduled to get an update on the prosecution of a Kansas doctor charged with illegally dispensing prescription drugs. Fifty-three-year-old Michael Schuster was indicted May 1 on multiple counts alleging he operated a so-called "pill mill" at his Manhattan pain clinic. Schuster remains held without bond. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson scheduled a status ...

12 years ago
Eight minimum-security inmates have walked away from the state's prison in Lansing in the past three years. But officials there are confident in their security systems. All eight were eventually recaptured, including the latest to escape. Paul Cohagen was found Thursday. He was a plumber at the prison, a job that gave him the freedom of ...

12 years ago
Salina's first ever gay pride event is scheduled for this week. The "Gay Pride Salina" event will be a full day of activities. The event features music, concessions, and community information booths during the day. In the evening there will be a banquet, entertainment, and awards. Organizers invite the community to come and support "dignity, equal rights, social visibility ...

12 years ago
Hostess is betting on a sweet comeback for its Twinkies snack cakes when they return to store shelves next month. The company that went bankrupt after an acrimonious fight with its unionized workers last year is back up and running under new owners and a leaner structure. It says it plans to have Twinkies and other ...

12 years ago
Republican strategies to win presidential elections are deeply unsettled because GOP lawmakers are rejecting what many see as obvious lessons from Mitt Romney's loss last year. House Republicans are rebelling against the key recommendation of a party-sanctioned post-mortem. It told Republicans to embrace a comprehensive immigration overhaul or suffer crippling losses among Hispanic voters in 2016 ...

12 years ago
Two people from Mississippi are hurt in a single vehicle crash along Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County Saturday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 42-year-old Louise Baker was driving a car headed west. The rear passenger tire blew and she lost control. The car rolled one time and came to rest in the median, on its ...

12 years ago
A top political supporter confirms that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will seek a second term next year. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the first-term Republican governor recently sent a message to supporters seeking to raise funds for the 2014 campaign. David Kensinger, who heads Brownback's political action committee, said Friday that the governor "is actively raising funds and ...

12 years ago
A new report says the Kansas unemployment rate edged higher in May, but the state also saw modest growth in private-sector jobs over the past year. The state Labor Department says the jobless rate stood at 5.7 percent last month, up from 5.6 percent in April but down from 6.1 percent in May 2012. The report also ...

12 years ago
Kansas State University has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the U.S. State Department to bring international engineering students to campus. The university's engineering extension program will use the grant to bring 20 students from 13 countries to Kansas this summer to study environmental stewardship. The five-week program will start in July and conclude in August with ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is taking applications to fill a new position on the Kansas Court of Appeals, the first to use a new process signed into law this spring. The vacancy is for a 14th judge to serve on the court. The new law changed the way judges on the Court of Appeals are appointed and approved. ...

12 years ago
Police make an arrest after a property owner finds his chain link fence sold for scrap. Police say Orville Crowder of Salina saw a couple of men removing a roll of chain link fencing from a property he owns in the 300 block of N. 7th. The man told officers he saw them leaving in an SUV. Later ...