13 years ago
A dirt bike is removed from a rural outbuilding. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a motorcycle is stolen. The owner told deputies that someone entered a storage shed on their property in the 7000 block of E. Mentor Road, sometime on June 12th and removed a 2006 Honda dirt bike that is red and ...

13 years ago
The administration of the juvenile justice system in Kansas is merging into the adult correctional system. Gov. Sam Brownback contends the Juvenile Justice Authority will be better managed under the Department of Corrections and says money going toward administration of the JJA could instead be diverted into programs for offenders. The Department of Corrections says in a ...

13 years ago
A man and woman refuse medical treatment after being pistol whipped. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, officers were called to a house in the 400 block of Baker on Saturday night after two suspects allegedly came in and used a handgun to injure two residence in their early 20's - before leaving with a cell phone ...

13 years ago
A 19-year-old Wichita man has drowned while trying to help a friend at Cheney Reservoir in south-central Kansas. Reno County sheriff's deputy Lee Johnson announced on the agency's Facebook page that the victim was Marcus Hutton. The posting said that the drowning was reported around 5 p.m. Saturday near the lake's yacht club. Witnesses told authorities that ...

13 years ago
A federal judge in Kansas has refused to temporarily block a new state law requiring that abortion provider websites link to a state site with information the providers dispute. But U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Vratil's ruling Sunday came after a state judge ruled Friday that Kansas couldn't enforce the same website requirement for now. The ...

13 years ago
A 21-year-old man has been killed in an all-terrain vehicle near the northeast Kansas town of Delia. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 21-year-old Adrian C. Barber of Rossville was injured Saturday morning. Barber then was transported to Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center, where he was pronounced dead. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse said in a news release that ...

13 years ago
Beer enthusiasts attending Topeka's first craft brewery festival had pales, wheats, lagers and fruity seasonal brews to pick from. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that about 900 people turned out Saturday to sample 122 beers from 38 American craft brewers. Downtown Topeka Inc. president and CEO Vince Frye said the event was so successful, that the organization already ...

13 years ago
Westar Energy is proposing raising the rates on residential and small business customers and lowering the rates for large businesses. Small businesses would pay 6 to 9 percent more under Westar Energy's latest plan. Big businesses that buy lots of power would pay 6 to 15 percent less. Westar officials say industrial users and other large-volume customers ...

13 years ago
Multiple grass fires have closed a road near the south-central Kansas town of Partridge. The fires were burning Saturday between Partridge and Abbyville. The Hutchinson News reports that some of the fires have threatened homes, but no structures have burned. No one is injured.

13 years ago
A second suspect in a marijuana bust at a northeast Kansas airport has pleaded guilty. Colorado resident Lance Thompson was one of five people arrested in April when a small airplane from Colorado carrying about 42 pounds of marijuana landed at Amelia Earhart Airport in Atchison. Some of the suspects were on the plane, the others ...

13 years ago
Anyone inclined to grumble about mowing the lawn in the steamy Kansas heat might consider the example of the Kent Winter family. The Wichita Eagle reports the family of 10 - parents Kent and Susan and their eight children - have been working from sunrise until late at night to bring in their wheat crop. They grow ...