10 years ago
Sunday started much the same way Saturday ended, with the ground shaking in parts of the Midwest. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, three earthquakes were recorded along the Kansas / Oklahoma border before 7:00 in the morning. Early morning quakes included: 2.8 at 4:41 AM 3.9 at 5:25 AM 2.9 at 6:35 AM The three quakes came just ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City woman who worked as a teacher and lived on a pension left $2 million to a Catholic order when she died at age 100. The Star reports that Anna Kurzweil donated $2 million to the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order known as Jesuits, upon her death in ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A 19-year-old Kansas City man accused of trying to kill a Wyandotte County deputy has been sentenced on an unrelated robbery charge. Charles Bowser is one of three men charged with shooting Deputy Scott Wood during a convenience store robbery last March in Kansas City, Kansas. The Star reports that two other ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Topeka police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby. Police Captain Ash Kaboudan said officers were called Friday evening to a home on a report of a pediatric emergency, and crews took the girl by ambulance to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that police haven't released ...

10 years ago
BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) - Two Oklahoma men have died in a single-vehicle crash in northeast Kansas. Police said the accident occurred late Thursday in Bonner Springs when the pickup they were in veered off a road and struck several trees. The Kansas City Star reports that police identified the two men killed in the crash as ...

10 years ago
Kansas senators are working to keep Gov. Sam Brownback's administration from approving new economic development projects that cost the state sales tax revenue. Senators approved a budget bill Thursday with an amendment preventing the Department of Commerce from approving new STAR bonds projects this and next fiscal year. The program has been used to finance construction ...

10 years ago
The Republican president of the Kansas Senate has ousted Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook from leadership of the Senate's health committee. Pilcher-Cook, a Shawnee Republican, said in an emailed statement Friday that Senate President Susan Wagle removed her from her post as chair of the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee. Pilcher-Cook said she was removed because of ...

10 years ago
Kansas legislators are preparing to close a deficit largely with budget juggling, and a growing number are seeing broad problems with how the state is managing its finances. Conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's critics blame his aggressive tax-cutting policies for crises across state government. The problems include inadequate pay at state prisons and short staffing in ...

10 years ago
A series of earthquakes was felt across the Midwest Saturday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in northwest Oklahoma that was reportedly felt across Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska, Texas, Arkansas and Iowa. Fairview police and the Major County Sheriff's Office say there are no reports of injury or damage as a result ...

10 years ago
Does a park in your neighborhood need a new playground? Has your community been waiting for the right time to put in a new picnic shelter, ball fields or a dog park? Now, with the reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act (LWCF), the time is right to make those projects happen. LWCF grants have ...

10 years ago
HOUSTON (AP) - Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by 30 this week to 541. The Houston company said Friday 439 rigs sought oil and 102 explored for natural gas amid depressed energy prices. A year ago, 1,358 rigs were active. Among ...