9 years ago
A Kansas agency and a University of Kansas center for mental health research are cutting ties. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://j.mp/299xIx1) the Center for Mental Health Research and Innovation at the University of Kansas declined to accept a contract offer Thursday from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The center says the contract would have ...

9 years ago
Bookstores serving students at the two largest universities in Kansas are closing, largely because of dwindling textbook sales. The Levin family owns the Jayhawk Bookstore in Lawrence near the University of Kansas and Varney's Book Store in Manhattan, where Kansas State is located. The family has announced the closure of both bookstores. Jeff Levin says Jayhawk Bookstore's ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A 31-year-old New Zealand woman has been pursuing charges in Kansas against a teenager she believes harassed her online. Rachel Gronback lives in Auckland, New Zealand, where she blogs about "fashion, online shopping and body positivity." Gronback said that when she started receiving inappropriate online sexual messages in November, she was able ...

9 years ago
A Wichita woman says she and her dog were out for a morning run when a coyote grabbed the dog and carried it away in its jaws. Shelley Duncan said that she was running near the Tallgrass Golf Course last week with her dog Gwenny, an Italian greyhound, a few feet behind her when the coyote ...

9 years ago
A 40-year-old woman has been sentenced to about 25 years in prison for killing a Lawrence woman in 2014. Angelica Kulp pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder and aggravated burglary in the stabbing death of 56-year-old Christine Kaplan. Kulp was sentenced Friday in Douglas County court. Kaplan, who was known to take in people in need ...

9 years ago
Documents show Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach frequently flies in the state-owned executive aircraft to promote voter ID efforts outside of Kansas and to speak at Republican political events across the state. All of that is at state expense. The Associated Press used open record requests to document thousands of dollars Kobach spent to fly ...

9 years ago
A 2-mile stretch of the Kansas Turnpike where seven people have died in flooding will soon offer better protection for drivers. Workers are about halfway through a project to improve drainage on a stretch about 10 miles south of Emporia. Six people, including five members of a Missouri family, died there in 2003. A Texas man ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A handful of small, rural Kansas school districts face spikes in local property taxes or spending cuts because they're losing state aid under a new education funding law. But a few other rural districts could see tax levies decrease significantly. Dozens of districts of all sizes will see modest decreases because the state ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A 79-year-old Kansas man is dead after his riding lawnmower rolled into a creek near his Wichita home and trapped him underneath. The Wichita Eagle reports police responded to the 911 call around 3 p.m. Thursday after the man's wife found him. Police spokeswoman Nikki Woodrow says he was pronounced dead at ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A joint application to approve the $12.2 billion sale of Westar Energy Inc. has been filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Great Plains Energy Inc., Kansas City Power and Light and Westar filed the application Tuesday. If approved, Westar would be sold to Great Plains. Great Plains is ...

9 years ago
LANSING, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Department of Corrections says the maximum-security unit at the state's largest prison is on lockdown after "altercations" involving inmates and staff. Corrections spokesman Adam Pfannenstiel said in an email Friday the maximum-security unit at the Lansing Correctional Facility is on lockdown after four "separate incidents" early Thursday. He described the ...