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A former Kansas agriculture secretary has joined the Land Institute, which seeks to create a new sustainable agriculture that minimizes environmental damage. Josh Svaty, a farmer from Ellsworth County, former state lawmaker and state agriculture secretary from 2009 through 2011, joined the Land Institute on Monday as a vice president. He'll work on public policy issues, ...

12 years ago
State corrections officials are looking for a minimum security inmate who escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility. The Kansas Department of Corrections says 43-year-old Paul D. Cohagen was discovered missing from the prison Monday evening. Cohagen is a white male with hazel eyes and brown hair. He's 6-feet tall and weighs about 160 pounds. He was sentenced for ...

12 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A new report estimates that just 11 percent of the Kansas winter wheat is now ripe, with harvest in much of southern Kansas just days away. The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that last year by this late in the season, 97 percent of the crop had ripened. The average for ...

12 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Lawrence officials are taking aim at a bed bug problem that's emerging at apartment complexes with new rules allowing the city to tell people how and when to exterminate the critters. City code enforcement manager Brian Jiminez says bed bugs are becoming an issue at apartment complexes because of the large turnover ...

12 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the state's proof-of-citizenship requirement for new voters can still be enforced after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a similar Arizona law. Kobach says the Kansas law differs enough from Arizona's version that the high court's Monday decision doesn't apply to Kansas. County election officials in Kansas said they were ...

12 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has asked for an investigation into an immigration reform protest held outside his Wyandotte County home. Kobach said Monday he has contacted state and Wyandotte County officials seeking an investigation into the protest held Saturday outside his Piper home. Event organizer Sunflower Community Action says about 300 participants chanted and left ...

12 years ago
A Kansas State University graduate student has been sentenced to 60 days in jail plus three years' probation for head-on crash that killed two people last year. The Manhattan Mercury reports a Riley County judge imposed the sentence Monday on Miles Theurer, who could have received up to 14 years in prison. The 24-year-old veterinary medicine student ...

12 years ago
In a spirited joint meeting Monday afternoon, Salina City and Saline County Commissioners discussed the displaced Salina / Saline County Health Department. It's been over a year, and the two commissions are still trying to find a permanent home for the agency. A structure problem with the roof caused the agency to close over a year ago, ...

12 years ago
A group of National Guard soldiers are coming home Tuesday. According to the National Guard, about 20 Kansas National Guardsmen from Detachment 2, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment will be welcomed home from Afghanistan on Tuesday. A ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Salina Army Aviation Support Facility #2, 2917 Hein, located ...

12 years ago
Multiple construction tools are stolen from an outbuilding. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary that took place over the weekend in the 300 block of N. Simpson Road. Deputies were contacted by Archie Ponton of Ponton Construction, after realizing someone entered his garage and took a number of power tools and saws. Some of the ...

12 years ago
A Salina man will be making his first ever trip to the Country Stampede next week thanks to a Salina radio station. Cory Saylor of Salina was the grand prize winner over the weekend in the Salina Media Group radio station Y93.7 Long McArthur Country Stampede VIP ticket giveaway. Finalists had to qualify at event sponsor locations ...