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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal agency has rejected Wichita based Beechcraft's protest of the award of an Air Force contract for light air support planes to Sierra Nevada Corporation and its Brazil based partner, Embraer. Both companies issued statements Thursday announcing the decision by the Government Accountability Office. It's the latest development in a high ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has signed legislation making additional cuts to Kansas income taxes over the next five years. The Republican governor made the measure official during a ceremony Thursday at a construction site in Overland Park. Another event was planned later in Wichita. The changes in income tax rates include an adjustment in the standard deduction for ...

12 years ago
The winter wheat harvest is off to a slow, tentative start in south-central Kansas. Steve Inslee, general manager at the OK Co-op in Kiowa, said Thursday that local farmers have cut a few acres and the grain elevator has taken a couple of loads of wheat. He doesn't look for the area's harvest to begin in ...

12 years ago
State officials have prohibited skiing, swimming and wading in three lakes because of concerns about high levels of toxic blue-green algae. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment issued the warning Thursday for: LOGAN CITY LAKE, Phillips County MARION RESERVOIR, Marion County MEMORIAL PARK LAKE (Veteran's Lake), Barton County When a Warning is issued, KDHE recommends the following precautions be ...

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A pair of firefighters are doubling as brewers for Salina’s first microbrewery. Josh Foley and John Goertzen work together at Fire Station No. 1 and are also responsible for creating the craft beers at Blue Skye Brewery, which is set to open in downtown Salina this fall. Foley’s grandparents lived in Salina and he’s been in the ...

12 years ago
Four people are hurt in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 135 south of Salina Thursday morning. According to th Kansas Highway Patrol, 32-year-old Danielle Roth of Salina was driving a car north on the interstate, travelling at 75-miles-per-hour.  She rear-ended a car that was traveling at 60-miles-per-hour. Roth was hurt, as were three people in the car ...

12 years ago
A man suspected of passing counterfeit $100 bills in Salina is caught on video. Police say that a white male described as short, with medium brown hair and tattoos on his forearms purchased a $25 gift certificate from The Strand Beauty Salon, 214 W. Walnut, with a counterfeit $100 bill - and walked out with $75 ...

12 years ago
Wichita police believe the shooter who fired on a home and struck a sleeping 4-year-old boy targeted the wrong address. The shooting happened around 3 a.m. Thursday. Police say the boy and his mother were asleep in a bedroom of a duplex at the time. The 4-year-old was taken to St. Francis Hospital with a gunshot wound ...

12 years ago
Nemaha County Authorities have released the name of the 14-year-old boy killed Monday evening in a tubing accident at the Centralia City Lake. KNZA Radio reports Nemaha County Sheriff Rich Vernon identifies the victim as Nicholas Frazer of Centralia. He died after he was thrown from the tube, being pulled by a boat, around 6:00 Monday evening. Transported ...

12 years ago
A commission that evaluates medical transport services has placed the accreditation of a Wichita, Kansas-based company on hold following the third crash of one of its medical helicopters in Oklahoma since 2010. Eileen Frazer, executive director of the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, said Wednesday her agency will be looking for trends as it ...

12 years ago
An educational think tank says Kansas is replacing some of the nation's strongest science standards for public schools with weaker, multistate guidelines. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute's report on the new standards was released Thursday, two days after their adoption by the Kansas State Board of Education. The new standards were drafted by 26 states and the ...