7 years ago
Houston remains a city under siege by Mother Nature Monday, and help is on the way from across the country including from Kansas.  The Bayou City is facing what the National Hurricane Center calls "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding" as what was once Hurricane Harvey continues to hover over the region. People were urged over the weekend ...

7 years ago
Authorities are working to identify skeletal remains that were found this weekend at Melvern Lake in eastern Kansas. A park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found the remains on Friday night at the lake, which is northeast of Emporia, Kansas. The Osage County Sheriff's office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are working to ...

7 years ago
It's been hosting events now for about a month, and later this week it will host an event in which the public is invited. The Salina Parks and Recreation Department will host an open house at the downtown Salina fieldhouse this Wednesday. The fieldhouse opened back in July, hosting the Jeff Hawkins KU Basketball Camp as ...

7 years ago
Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy have formally asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to approve a merger between the two utility companies. The companies submitted a filing to the KCC Friday, seeking formal approval of a $14 billion merger announced in July. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the merger request comes after the commission earlier this year rejected ...

7 years ago
A move in Kansas to increase pay for corrections officers in prisons is building pressure on legislators to consider raises for all government workers. But lawmakers would have to figure out how to pay for the raises even after a significant tax increase this year. Budget director Shawn Sullivan told lawmakers this week that revenues must grow ...

7 years ago
The driver was killed, and a passenger was hurt, in a single vehicle utility terrain vehicle crash early Saturday morning in northeast Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2016 Polaris UTV was headed north on a rural road in Doniphan County. The vehicle rolled onto its right side. Both the driver and passenger were ...

7 years ago
Next Friday, September 1st, marks the opening of hunting seasons in Kansas. The day is fast approaching. Once September gets here, the hunting season floodgates open with dove, teal, deer, greater prairie chicken, and snipe seasons opening in quick succession. And while September can’t get here quickly enough for most hunters, there is much to do ...

7 years ago
Hurricane Harvey is causing cause U.S. gasoline prices to rise, with the storm hitting a refinery-rich stretch of the Gulf Coast. Some refineries shut down until the storm passes, disrupting gasoline supplies. Wholesale gasoline futures rose Thursday by 5 cents, or 3 percent, to $1.66 per gallon, and experts say that will quickly show up on service-station ...

7 years ago
A man is dead after leaping in front of a tractor trailer truck on a western Kansas highway. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 67-year-old Joseph Humphreys of Garden City was lying in the east ditch of Kansas 25 Highway. As a Peterbilt semi approached headed south, he leaped out from a prone position and was ...

7 years ago
The last of five defendants in the death of a Pittsburg State University student has been sentenced. Tyler Smith was sentenced Friday to two years and four months in prison for conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery as his role in the 2014 death of 20-year-old Taylor Thomas. Smith also was ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution ...

7 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has affirmed that a Salina man currently serving prison time for child sex crimes will remain a lifetime registered sex offender. 50-year-old Ray Tappendick pleaded no contest in 2011 to two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child for offenses committed in 2008. At the time of Tappendick's plea, the Kansas Offender ...