10 years ago
A former University of Kansas student is fighting his expulsion over social media posts about his ex-girlfriend. The university expelled Navid Yeasin in November 2013 for violating an order not to contact his ex-girlfriend in any way. Yeasin sued earlier this year and a Douglas County judge ruled in September that the school did not have ...

10 years ago
The Reno County Sheriff's Office says a 63-year-old man has died after his tractor flipped over. Deputies say Larry Lester was killed Saturday after being pinned under the Ford tractor he was driving on his property near Arlington. They say Lester was using the tractor to pull trees when the tractor flipped backward. ...

10 years ago
Wichita authorities have rescued a 1,100-pound horse that partially fell through abandoned railroad tracks. Wichita police, animal control and firefighters worked together to pull the horse from the hole on Sunday. It took responders more than two hours to free the animal. Authorities constructed a pulley system and about six firefighters hoisted the horse out of the ...

10 years ago
An eternal flame soon will be relighted at a veterans' memorial on the northwest corner of the Osage County Courthouse. The flame is part of a monument that was dedicated in 1969. But the gas flame was snuffed out in the mid-1970s because of rising gas prices. American Legion Post 125 commander Jayson Massey says he ...

10 years ago
Authorities say a man has been wounded in a hunting accident in central Kansas. The Clay County sheriff’s office said in a news release Sunday that a 12-year-old shot 56-year-old Jerome Valdez of Holton in the back. The accident happened just before 11 a.m. while the pair was flushing a covey of quail. Valdez was taken to ...

10 years ago
While the Kansas campaign for U.S. Senate might be getting national attention, another Kansas congressional race might also be coming down to the wire. Democrat Jim Sherow is trying to unseat incumbent Republican Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp in what might potentially be a closer race than many expected for Kansas's 1st Congressional District. Though there is ...

10 years ago
A campaign flyer has another university official in Kansas explaining that he is not endorsing a candidate. Fort Hays State University President Emeritus Edward Hammond is issuing a statement after his photo and a quote from him appeared on a campaign flyer/mailer that was sent by the Kansas Republican Party endorsing Governor Brownback. The campaign ...

10 years ago
Tea party groups and other Republican rebels that thrive on bedeviling the party establishment are minding their political manners in the run-up to Election Day, while Democrats are struggling. That combination doesn't guarantee a Republican takeover of the Senate or big GOP gains in the House in elections midway through President Barack Obama's second term. But ...

10 years ago
With the beginning ofthe biggest hunting season in Kansas less than a week away, game wardens and state troopers are ready. The regular pheasant and quail seasons open November 8, the greater prairie chicken regular season starts November 15 and duck and goose seasons will also be underway. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism ...

10 years ago
A rule that prevents utilities from disconnecting Kansas customers during extreme cold is in effect. The cold weather rule is enforced by the Kansas Corporation Commission and runs from this weekend through March 31. The rule bars utilities from disconnecting electric or natural gas service for non payment when temperatures of 35 or lower are forecast ...

10 years ago
A University of Kansas fraternity has agreed to remain suspended while a sexual assault investigation continues. The university sent a letter Friday to the president of the school's Kappa Sigma chapter. In it, university student conduct and community standards coordinator Joshua Jones wrote that it could be after the beginning of December before the investigation is ...