10 years ago
A group that wants to lower fines for marijuana possession in Wichita says it has collected enough signatures on petitions to put the issue to a public vote in April. Esau Freeman, leader of Kansas for Change, says the group plans to present the petitions to election officials next week.  The same group was a few ...

10 years ago
Bitter cold will spread across Kansas as the day progresses Monday, and bring with it snow, According to the National Weather Service, arctic air will surge south across Kansas late Monday into Tursday, bringing some of the coldest air of the season. Highs on Tuesday will struggle to climb out of the teens across much of the ...

10 years ago
A newspaper analysis of court records in the county where the University of Kansas is located has found that alcohol-fueled acquaintance rape cases are challenging to prosecute. In the past 10 years, Douglas County juries convicted three rapists. In the cases, the rapists overpowered their victims, threatened them with weapons or broke into their homes. ...

10 years ago
Police suspect suicide in the death of a Fort Riley soldier at a shooting range in Kansas. A report from the Riley County Police Department says the 20-year-old man died of a gunshot wound Dec. 20 at Ogden's Best Gun Range. Police said they do not believe his death was accidental. The man had rented ...

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The Obama administration is on the verge of proposing long-awaited rules for commercial drone operations in U.S. skies, but key decisions on how much access to grant drones are likely to come from Congress. Federal Aviation Administration officials have said they want to release proposed rules before the end of this month, but other government and ...

10 years ago
Farmers and ranchers across Kansas are wrapping a growing season marked by rapidly changing fortunes buffeted by weather and markets. The 2014 farming year in Kansas brought a meager winter wheat harvest before late spring rains eased drought conditions just in time to green up pastures and sustain bountiful fall crops of corn, soybeans and sorghum. Cattle ...

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The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed the murder convictions of a Salina man who was convicted of killing two people, one during a burglary and another after an argument. Back in December of 2010 a Saline County jury convicted Willie Smith-Parker of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree intentional murder. The appeal was from the two prosecutions that ...

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About 125 people protesting police violence have marched in St. Louis to the Gateway Arch, prompting park police to close the monument early. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that protesters, holding signs with slogans including "Black Lives Matter," also briefly blocked some streets Saturday. Many participants had the names of people killed by police written on ...

10 years ago
A Salina teen was hurt in a single-vehicle crash on an icy road in western Kansas Friday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 18-year-old Courtney Ziegler was driving a car headed west on Interstate 70. As she began to take exit 70 she lost control due to icy road conditions. The car struck a sign ...

10 years ago
A missing Salina woman has been found. According to family, 25-year-old Shyla Bisterfeldt was found in a ditch near Hutchinson. She was taken to a hospital as a precaution, but has no serious injuries. No details on how she came to be in the ditch were immediately available. Shayla had been missing since early Christmas Day. She had ...

10 years ago
A recent audit of Kansas' rural telephone service program has found that it is generally well-run and efficient, but it also suggests that lawmakers consider the types of services taxpayers are now subsidizing. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the audit was conducted of the Kansas Universal Service Fund which was established in 1995. The audit notes ...