9 years ago
The producer of a 1970s movie about a gorilla trained in kung fu that fights its way across Wichita says the film might have been one big-name actor away from being a hit. Bob Walterscheid says "King Kung Fu" was intended to be a widely distributed comedy but instead became a movie that "most people look ...

9 years ago
A man who was considered to be armed and dangerous was caught by Salina Police Monday afternoon. John James Brown was being sought in connection with two weekend stabbings in Salina. According to Salina Police, John Brown was arrested at a home in southeast Saline County. Brown was arrested by the department's SWAT Team, with the ...

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 ...