13 years ago
Kansas officials are seeking to take control of recreational areas at lakes managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in effort to reduce overlap of services and expenses. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Gov. Sam Brownback has sent a letter to the Pentagon seeking to end federal management of certain recreational areas at reservoirs where ...

13 years ago
A benefit dinner is planned this weekend for the family of a child killed in a farming accident last week. Last Wednesday evening 5-year-old Brooklyn Debenham was killed. She had been riding in the cab of a combine in rural Dickinson County with her father when the combine hit a bump, or obstacle. The combine's windshield ...

13 years ago
A Salina woman is scammed over the phone. Police are investigating after a 78-year-old female is bilked out of over $400 after a phone call. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, a male claiming to be with Medicare called the woman in mid-September and told her he needed to update some of her information because of some changes ...

13 years ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation awards nearly $142,000 in grants from the Fund For Greater Salina.. According to the organization,the Foundation received 33 applications with requests totaling just under $142,000. Grant requests are capped at $5,000. 2013 Fall Fund for Greater Salina Grants: $5,000 The Ottawa and Salina County CASA Program- To recruit and train additional ...

13 years ago
Long-time Fort Hays State University President Dr. Edward Hammond is retiring. Joined by the leadership of the Kansas Board of Regents, Dr. Edward H. Hammond announced during a news conference today on the campus of Fort Hays State University that he would resign effective on June 30, 2014, the end of the current fiscal year. ...

13 years ago
Kansas State is considering dropping part of their pre-game festivities for home games after a student was hospitalized when he was tackled by the team's mascot. Saturday before the West Virginia game, a member of the school's cheer squad ran around the field in Mountaineer colors taunting fans as part of a skit that ends with ...

13 years ago
A missing Kansas man spent his final days trapped in the wreckage of his van in a rural Utah ravine and wrote goodbye letters to the family he unexpectedly left in early September. Utah Highway Patrol trooper Gary Riches says 54-year-old David Welch was found on Oct. 18 by a hitchhiker who spotted the crash in ...

13 years ago
Fifty-two Kansas counties have filed suit claiming the state shortchanged them by about $7.6 million in making payments from a fund set up to offset the effects of declining oil and natural gas production. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Shawnee County District Court. It contends Gov. Sam Brownback's administration improperly accelerated a cut in payments ...

13 years ago
Preliminary enrollment figures show the number of Kansas students attending public schools grew by less than 1 percent this fall. The raw figures disclosed Tuesday by the Kansas Department of Education were based on the Sept. 20 enrollment count. The figures show there were nearly 460,000 full-time equivalent students attending Kansas public schools. The figure is different ...

13 years ago
A Manhattan man will be sentenced in December for killing a Fort Riley soldier. KMAN reports that the sentencing date for 43-year-old Matthew Wilson is set for Dec. 12 in Riley County. Wilson pleaded no contest Friday to one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery. Prosecutors say ...

13 years ago
The latest government snapshot of Kansas farms shows that winter wheat planting is nearing completion amid the harvest of other crops. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 94 percent of the winter wheat has now been planted. About 74 percent of the crop has emerged. The report rated wheat condition as 59 percent good to ...