10 years ago
The Kansas State University Crops Team recently captured the title of national champion for the sixth year in a row. K-State teams have now won the collegiate crops contest championship in 13 of the past 16 years. To win the 2014 national title, the team won both the Kansas City American Royal Collegiate Crops Contest ...

10 years ago
A former middle school counselor convicted in a sex case involving a student was sentenced to over 13 years in jail. Judge Patrick Thompson sentenced 33-year-old Brooke Dinkel Thursday afternoon in Saline County District Court to 165 months in prison. Back in June Dinkel was found guilty of sex crimes involving a 13-year-old student. A jury found ...

10 years ago
The top transportation official in Kansas says highway projects scheduled for 2015 and 2016 will proceed, despite a projected multi-million shortfall in the state's budget. The Kansas Department of Transportation announced in August $1.2 billion in highway projects for the next two years. In November, the state announced it was expecting a $279 million shortfall for ...

10 years ago
A market analyst is warning Kansas ranchers not to get too comfortable with the record high cattle prices they have been enjoying recently. CattleFax Executive Vice President Randy Blach told producers attending the Kansas Livestock Association convention in Wichita that they can continue to make good profits in the coming years. But he says cattle prices ...

10 years ago
A bogus $20 bill is discovered in a restaurant's bank deposit. Salina Police are investigating after another counterfeit bill was found, this time by employees at Bennington State Bank - in a deposit made by Jim's Chicken, 649 S. Broadway on Wednesday. Police are also investigating a couple of counterfeit $100 bills found in other bank deposits ...

10 years ago
A woman is found months after cutting an acquaintance with a knife. Salina Police arrested 20-year-old Ashley Morris on a warrant Wednesday for allegedly slashing a 19-year-old man with a utility knife during an argument in a home on September 15th. Police say the hospital used 21 staples to close the victim's chest wound. Authorities learned of the ...

10 years ago
Three tamarin monkeys from the Hutchinson Zoo in Kansas have died from a virus. The animals died late last month from the highly fatal virus likely contracted by eating an infected mouse or mouse urine. Two of the cotton-topped tamarins native to Colombia were born at the zoo in 2001. The other was born there in 2008. Zoo ...

10 years ago
A lawsuit against an Oklahoma-based company claiming it and other natural gas companies gouged two Kansas plaintiffs is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. The Topeka School District and Learjet are part of a lawsuit with more than a dozen other businesses and schools that say ONEOK and other natural gas companies illegally fixed prices between ...

10 years ago
Kansas is part of a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration. The states argue in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the move "tramples" key portions of the U.S. Constitution. Many top Republicans have denounced Obama's unilateral move, which was designed to spare as many as 5 million people living ...

10 years ago
Kansas has lost another legal skirmish in its efforts to salvage the state's battered ban on gay marriage. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on Tuesday the state's request to convene the full court to hear its appeal of U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree's order that the state allow same-sex marriages. The latest procedural development from ...

10 years ago
A state economist says Kansas has regained the private-sector jobs it lost during the most recent recession but has seen a shift away from employment in manufacturing. Kansas Department of Labor senior economist Tyler Tenbrink also said Wednesday that wages haven't rebounded fully from the recession when adjusted for inflation. Tenbrink reported on employment and wages during ...