9 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback's budget director is preparing to outline $50 million in adjustments to keep the current Kansas budget from resulting in a deficit. Budget director Shawn Sullivan scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. Thursday at the Statehouse. The governor's office said Sullivan would discuss recommendations for reducing costs and shifting funds within state government to ...

9 years ago
A black couple says officials at Emporia State University in Kansas have ignored their complaints about a racial incident and are retaliating against them for complaining. Angelica Hale is an assistant to the dean of the School of Library & Management. She says the problems began when someone tampered with items in her graduate assistant's office ...

9 years ago
Interviews conducted by law enforcement can be used as evidence, and the trial will not be moved to a different location in the case involving a teenage girl accused of stabbing her sister to death at their rural Saline County home. Judge Patrick Thompson made the rulings late Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of two days ...

9 years ago
A federal court hearing is set for next month for a 20-year-old man charged with plotting to bomb an Army post in Kansas in support of the Islamic State group. John T. Booker Jr. of Topeka is to appear Aug. 19 before U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia in Kansas City, Kansas. The judge plans to review ...

9 years ago
Investors developing a state-owned gambling casino in southeast Kansas are seeking permission to build a four-story hotel. While area zoning restrictions limit buildings to 35 feet, or three stories, developers of the Kansas Crossing Casino & Hotel are planning to build a four-story, 123-room Hampton Inn & Suites. The Joplin Globe reports the Pittsburg Board of Zoning ...

9 years ago
Republican legislators have blocked a state audit of the Kansas foster care system even though several of them acknowledged they have concerns about how it operates. A legislative committee that directs the work of state auditors voted 5-4 Wednesday against initiating a review of the foster care system sought by two Democrats. The no votes came ...

9 years ago
The Kansas division of a federal civil rights commission says it will investigate whether Kansas voter identification laws have affected voter turnout. KCUR reports that the Kansas Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission voted Tuesday to hold hearings to determine if voter turnout in some Kansas communities has been suppressed by the Kansas voter identification ...

9 years ago
A suburban Kansas City woman cleaning out some of her husband's items found what is believed to be a live explosive in their home. The Prairie Village, Kansas, woman called police around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday saying she had found an old military item that could possibly be an explosive. Prairie Village police spokesman Capt. Byron Roberson says ...

9 years ago
A 23-year-old woman has been charged in the robbery and beating of a man at Douglas State Fishing Lake. 23-year-old Breanna Denise Parsons was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated robbery Tuesday.  According to police, Parsons and Donnie Ray Plouffe attacked and robbed a man at the lake on June 24. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Sgt. ...

9 years ago
A man has been found guilty for the fatal drive-by shooting of a woman just hours after her wedding in Topeka. Awnterio Dwan Lowery was found guilty of several charges including first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder Tuesday for the slaying of 42-year-old Tiffany Davenport-Ray. Prosecutors say in May 2014, Lowery and two other men followed Davenport-Ray ...

9 years ago
Kansas officials are reviewing its foster care policies, sparking concerns among some advocates that the state will stop placing abused and neglected children with gays, lesbians and straight, single individuals. But spokeswoman Theresa Freed said Tuesday that the state Department for Children and Families review will be broad and cover more than who should serve as ...