9 years ago
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - A Hutchinson man was sentenced to 15 years and two months in prison for killing a carnival worker at the Kansas State Fair. Michael Brisco Junior was sentenced Friday for six felonies, including reckless involuntary manslaughter. Bisco pleaded guilty last month in the September 2013 shooting death of 26-year-old Sem Adrien of ...

9 years ago
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas are shaping up as a three-way race between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Hundreds of GOP activists mingled Saturday with elected officials at the state GOP's biggest annual convention. It is only two weeks from March 5th presidential caucuses for both parties in Kansas. Rubio ...

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Three area lawmakers were on hand Saturday in Salina to give an update on the 2016 Legislative Session in Topeka. A crowd of about 70 people jotted down questions and pitched them in a basket for State Representatives, Steven Johnson, Diana Dierks and J.R. Claeys to respond to during the 90-minute meeting. Much of the conversation centered ...

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McConnell Air Force Base officials say the new Boeing KC-46A refueling tankers will arrive at the base in Wichita later than expected. The first of the new tankers, which will replace the aging KC-135 tanker, will not arrive until the spring of 2017. They originally had been expected to begin arriving early this year, which was ...

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The University of Kansas Cancer Center is joining nearly 70 other cancer centers in sounding an alarm about the high number of children not getting the HPV vaccine. The Kansas City Star (bit.ly/1SyWl9s) reports Kansas is last in the nation in the percentage of girls who have received the vaccine, which protects against a virus that ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 37-year-old is charged with kidnapping and armed criminal action after prosecutors say he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend from a suburban Kansas City convenience store and held her captive for weeks. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says Michael Snider abducted the woman from outside a Casey's store in Grain Valley on ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A proposal to build a new veterinary laboratory at Kansas State University is one step closer to reality. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university's proposal for a Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with an estimated cost of $43.2 million. The project still must be approved the Kansas Legislature. The ...

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Two radio stations raised nearly $60,000 to help in the fight against childhood cancer. Alpha Media radio stations Y 93.7 and Sunny 102.5 on Friday concluded a two-day radiothon to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Listeners from all over Kansas opened up their hearts, and their wallets, to help in the effort. Calls and donations came in ...

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A Wichita mathematician who sued to get voting machine tapes in order to audit statistical anomalies in the 2014 election plans to appeal a judge's ruling that prohibits her from getting access to them. Judge Tim Lahey denied on Thursday a motion by Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman to dismiss statistician Beth Clarkson's open records case. The Wichita ...

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Kansas lawmakers are discussing two separate proposals for lowering the state's sales tax on groceries. Twelve Kansas senators are sponsoring a proposal to offer voters a constitutional amendment that would reduce the sales tax to zero over three years. One of the sponsors, Democratic Sen. Tom Holland, says voters need to have a voice in how ...

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Salina Police are searching for a known male suspect who allegedly held a knife to a young woman's throat. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an argument turned violent in a room at the Airliner Motel, 781 N. Broadway on Tuesday night around 8:15pm. The late-teens victim told police the man attempted to strangle her then threatened her ...