13 years ago
A northeast Kansas accountant has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the construction company where he worked. The U.S. Attorney's office says 64-year-old Larry Lord, of Manhattan, must also pay about $640,000 in restitution under the sentence he received Monday. Lord worked as an accountant at Cheney Construction Inc. ...

13 years ago
Crews are wrapping up the filming of a movie about a family of southeast Kansas innkeepers who killed about a dozen travelers in the 1870s. Crews shooting the "The Bender Claim" have been working recently at the Rock Springs 4-H Camp. Director John Alexander and producer JC Guest co-wrote the film. The pair met ...

13 years ago
Television history buffs have dug for historical artifacts at a little-known Civil War battlefield in northeast Kansas. Viewers will be able to learn what, if anything, they uncovered when a Bleeding Kansas episode of the show "Diggers" airs Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. The stars of the show - "King George" Wyant and Tim "The ...

13 years ago
A dog is credited with saving its owner from a northeast Kansas house fire that authorities are investigating as arson. The fire happened before dawn Friday in Wamego. The home's sole occupant says that after being awoken by the dog, he heard the sound of the smoke detectors. The man managed to exit through ...

13 years ago
A petition against possible property tax increases by both Saline County and Salina City Commissioners has been started. During the public forum session of the Salina City Commission meeting on Monday, Steven Howe of Salina told commissioners about the petition, and read it to them. The petition not only asks both boards of commissioners to not ...

13 years ago
A Kansas man who struck up a pen-pal relationship with Charles Manson has become a source for a new book about the cult killer. Bob George's correspondence with Manson began back in 1997. At the time, George was a teacher at Dodge City High School, looking for a way to bring to life for his ...

13 years ago
Lawrence school district officials say they are concerned about the educational success of students enrolled in the city's two virtual schools. About 1,500 of the district's students work from home through the two charter schools, which have nearly doubled enrollment in five years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports state assessment data show half of the students tested at ...

13 years ago
Early this morning, while it's residents were still asleep, a burglary occurred at a home on the 1100 block of Republic Circle. Colby Lemons, 25, a resident of the home, heard noises coming from his kitchen. Lemons got out of bed and turned on the lights to find a pantry door damaged and a backpack, not ...

13 years ago
After being moved  into a nursing home, Shirley Hopkins' son has been checking up on her house on the 800 block of Ellsworth. There had been no problems with the residence since Shirley left it, until last Friday. Shirley's son went to go check on her home like he usually did, but this time he noticed ...

13 years ago
The Atchison County Sheriff's Office says investigators have found the owner of an alligator that was released into a county lake. Investigators say Waylon Saxton was unlikely to face charges after his alligator, named Cletus, was discovered shot and wounded in the lake after he disappeared three weeks ago. Deputies say Saxton told them his ...

13 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says an 8-year-old girl died when an all-terrain vehicle she was riding on crashed in Republic County. The patrol says Mary H. Horner, of Belleville, died Saturday night when the all-terrain vehicle crashed on a farm field access road a few miles northwest of Scandia. The ATV was being driven by ...