9 years ago
A Kansas prison inmate who was reported missing last week has been apprehended after investigators received a tip that led them to a family member's home. The Wichita Eagle (bit.ly/1RXSIEW) reports 37-year-old Bradley Wayne Struble was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. Saturday in Arkansas City, near the Oklahoma border. Struble had been missing from the minimum-security ...

9 years ago
Republican lawmakers argue they may never be able to meet the Kansas Supreme Court's demands for fairness in education funding. They worry about creating yearly budget chaos as they constantly reshuffle dollars among local school districts. The Senate could debate a bill this week that would redistribute a small part of the state's annual aid to its ...

9 years ago
Bethany College, and the Lindsborg community, have started one of their busiest weeks of the year. Holy Week is underway, and that means that the Messiah Festival has started. The Festival kicked off  this Palm Sunday weekend with the opening of the Juried Student Art Exhibit in the Mingenback Gallery and production of Lucas Hnath’s play ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A pair of teenagers was able to walk away from a rented airplane one of them was flying when it crashed onto a Kansas golf course. Wichita police say the pilot was a 17-year-old boy and the passenger an 18-year-old woman who were on their way from Nashville, Tennessee, to Jabara Airport ...

9 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 29-year-old woman is accused slapping a Kansas City police officer's horse during a protest of a downtown rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump. April J. Foster was arrested at 5 p.m. Friday on a municipal charge of abuse of a police service animal. She was released after posting $500 bond. Police ...

9 years ago
The four Salina area lawmakers were were back home Saturday to give an update on the 2016 Legislative Session in Topeka. A crowd of about 50 people participated in a question and answer session Saturday with Senator Tom Arpke and  State Representatives, Steven Johnson, Diana Dierks and J.R. Claeys. Much of the conversation centered on economics and ...

9 years ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Masons from 220 lodges in Kansas have donated a total of $2.5 million to three Kansas State University programs. The Kansas Masonic Foundation's gifts will support the Kansas PRIDE program, the Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship and the Office of Military and Veterans Affairs. Kansas PRIDE encourages volunteers to work with local ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A woman has accepted a plea deal in a man's shooting death on the Wichita State University campus. Eboni Fingal of Wichita pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and robbery in the August 2015 death of 23-year-old Rayan Ibrahim Baba in the parking lot of a university student dormitory. The Wichita Eagle reports Fingal ...

9 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say two Kansas City, Kansas police officers have been suspended and are under investigation. The Kansas City Star reports that police said the officers were suspended with pay on Saturday. As part of the "dignitary detail," the officers were assigned to the mayor's security detail. No other details were immediately provided. ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Topeka Symphony Orchestra is performing stormy music to commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversary of a tornado that killed 16 people. The Capital-Journal reports that the performance is scheduled Saturday night at the White Concert Hall on the campus of Washburn University. The symphony's music director and conductor, Kyle Wiley Pickett, says he's ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Parks officials are taking steps to protect a pair of eagles and their babies who are nesting at a lake just east of Topeka. Shawnee County workers - with the help of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism - placed two buoys this week in Lake Shawnee. The goal is ...