9 years ago
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) - Residents in a southeast Kansas community are responding to a post office's removal of a "God Bless America" banner by putting up similar banners. The Pittsburg post office took the banner down Wednesday after hearing complaints about it from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation. The organization said hanging the banner at ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The email that prompted the firing of an attorney for a Kansas agency that represents residential and small-business utility customers urged board members to allow her to continue talking to lawmakers and reporters. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board released the email Friday after an open records request ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican leaders expect two Kansas legislative committees to approve plans next week for closing a projected $190 million deficit in the state's next budget. The House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees will be starting from GOP Governor Sam Brownback's proposals for juggling funds and capturing unanticipated savings. Senate Majority Leader Terry ...

9 years ago
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing four people in eastern Kansas in 2013. Kyle Trevor Flack is charged with capital murder in Franklin County in the shooting deaths of Kaylie Smith Bailey and her 18-month-old daughter. He's also charged with first-degree murder in the deaths ...

9 years ago
Insurance providers have asked Kansas lawmakers to approve a measure that would allow them to offer health plans requiring customers to only use the insurers' network. The plans are called Exclusive Provider Organization, or EPOs. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1SiI4xS) the current legislation would also mandate referrals from primary care physicians before covering specialty care. Aetna, UnitedHealth ...

9 years ago
Republican leaders expect two Kansas legislative committees to approve plans next week for closing a projected $190 million deficit in the state's next budget. The House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees will be starting from GOP Gov. Sam Brownback's proposals for juggling funds and capturing unanticipated savings. Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce said the goal ...

9 years ago
Are there trout in Kansas? Yes! While these spotted beauties may not be native to the Sunflower state, that doesn’t mean anglers fishing in Kansas can’t enjoy luring one ashore this winter. Thanks to a special program offered by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, anglers can catch stocked rainbow trout at more than ...

9 years ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - A 31-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for stabbing a woman. Samuel Dartez was sentenced Friday in Riley County to 22 1/2 years. He was convicted of attempted first-degree murder in the November 2014 attack on a 27-year-old woman in Manhattan. KMAN reports Dartez will also ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A man has been convicted of abducting an 8-year-old girl from her Topeka home, then drugging and raping her before she managed to free herself. The Capital-Journal reports that 29-year-old Jeremy James Lindsey was found guilty Friday of 10 counts. Witnesses testified that the girl vanished for about six hours in September 2014 ...

9 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A 29-year-old man has been convicted of fatally shooting his girlfriend in the parking lot of a home improvement store in Kansas City, Kansas. The Wyandotte County prosecutor's office announced Friday that George Lingenfelser of Bonner Springs was found guilty of second degree murder in the December 2014 killing of 29-year-old ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Governor Sam Brownback has filled a vacancy in a district court judgeship in southwest Kansas by promoting a local magistrate judge. Brownback on Friday announced the appointment of Ricklin Pierce of Garden City as a new Finney County district judge. Pierce replaces Judge Philip Vieux, who retired last year. Pierce has served as ...