10 years ago
The chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party has resigned amid a backlash over comments he made about the party's message. The party's executive director, Kerry Gooch, confirmed to The Wichita Eagle that Larry Meeker resigned Friday shortly before the party's annual convention in Wichita. Meeker ...

10 years ago
A group that's worked to reunite Baxter Springs residents with hundreds of photos displaced by the April 2014 tornado is turning the remaining photos over to a Baxter Springs museum. The Joplin Globe reports a press conference to mark the transfer is scheduled for Saturday at the Baxter Springs Heritage ...

10 years ago
Police are investigating a burglary at a downtown Salina business. Rebecca Jane's, an arts and home store on N. Santa Fe, incurred $1,000 worth of damage and loss, including a stolen Apple iPad and $250 in cash, after a cinder block shattered the glass on a back door window. Captain Mike Sweeney says the robbery ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is arrested for entering his former employers business and stealing cash. Police arrested 34-year-old Michael L. Burross after surveillance video from Tom's Appletree Restaurant, 2450 S.9th revealed he entered the store with a key and stole about $30 in cash from the Mission Donation Box. Police say he also rearranged some food ...

10 years ago
Between 8:30 PM on July 30, 2015 and 6:00 PM on July 31, 2015 force was used to enter a business formally known as ALTER Engineering, located at 537 N. Santa Fe. A new Harley Davidson 80 cubic inch block head motor, an Altima 6 speed transmission for a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a red Waterloo toolbox ...

10 years ago
Several elected officials are weighing in to object to moving prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth. The outcry came after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter ordered a site survey at Fort Leavenworth as well as Charleston, S.C. Carter has said other sites will be assessed. State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald of Leavenworth said housing prisoners in Fort Leavenworth ...

10 years ago
School superintendents seeking supplemental state funding are responding to lawmaker's request to outline how they're saving money. Superintendents Robert Shannon and Jeff Bollinger worked Thursday to respond to the request by four Republican legislators for evidence of budget austerity ahead of a meeting in which more than three dozen Kansas districts will seek supplemental funding. Shannon, the ...

10 years ago
Lawyers representing a Kansas man accused of killing three adults and a child have asked the judge to move the trial. Kyle Trevor Flack is charged with capital murder in the 2013 slayings of 21-year-old Kaylie Smith Bailey and her daughter, 18-month-old Lana-Leigh Bailey. He's also charged with premeditated first-degree murder in the deaths of 30-year-old  ...

10 years ago
A new survey suggests that the economic outlook for 10 Midwest and Plains states is weaker than in previous months. The Rural Mainstreet Index sank to growth neutral 50.0 in August from 53.4 in July. The survey indexes range from 0 to 100. Any score below 50 suggests decline in that factor in the months ahead. ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a man who allegedly beat a woman and threatened to kill her. Police say that a woman in her early 20s reported that just after midnight on Wednesday she was involved in an argument with her boyfriend, Jose Robles. During the argument, Robles allegedly hit the female in the head multiple times ...

10 years ago
A southwest Kansas postal worker faces federal charges accusing her of stealing mail. A federal grand jury in Wichita indicted 30-year-old Maria S. Alvidrez of Plains, this week on two counts of theft of mail. Alvidrez worked at a post office in the town of Kismet. According to the indictment, Alvidrez stole gift cards from mail addressed ...