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A Kansas court has ruled that Democrats can go without a U.S. Senate candidate after their nominee dropped out of the race against three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts. The ruling Wednesday is a blow to the GOP in a key race in the national battle over Senate control. A panel of three Shawnee County District Court judges ...

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Amazon.com plans to close a distribution center in southeast Kansas in February, a move that is expected to affect hundreds of workers. The Seattle-based online retailer said in an email Wednesday that the decision was not made lightly, and that it is committed to supporting employees through the transition. Amazon says it regularly evaluates its network to ...

10 years ago
A Kansas university says it's leading a five-year food project that includes other schools and developing countries in examining ways small farms can increase production. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kansas State University recently announced that it received a $50 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Vara Prasad, who will be the project's director, says ...

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A former Kansas Bureau of Investigation administrator has been disbarred by the state Supreme Court after pleading guilty earlier this year to sexual exploitation of a child. Former KBI deputy director Kyle G. Smith was third in line at the bureau last November when an agency secretary found a photo of a teenage girl engaged in ...

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Seven students suffered minor injuries after a school bus accident in west Wichita. Sedgwick County Sheriff's Lt. Lin Dehning says when a bus from Goddard ran off a road early Wednesday, the driver over-corrected and the bus rolled over. The bus was on its way to Amelia Earhart Elementary School. The Wichita Eagle reports the 32 children ...

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Salina Police are investigating the report of an aggravated assault. Officers were called to an apartment in the 100 block of South 5th Street just before 9pm on Tuesday after a man threatened a resident inside the home with a knife. Police are searching for a known suspect described as a black male.

10 years ago
A University of Kansas fraternity is on interim suspension after the school received reports of sexual assault during a party during the weekend. University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in a news release Wednesday that "disturbing and serious" behavior was reported at the Kappa Sigma fraternity. She did not elaborate. The Lawrence Police Department and the Office of ...

10 years ago
A call to police about a suspicious person in Wal-Mart's parking lot leads to the arrest of a Salina man. According to Captain Chris Trocheck, officers found 21-year-old Wesley Robertson in his pickup Tuesday afternoon around 12:13pm inhaling vapors from an aerosol spray can. Robertson was cited - and then arrested about 45-minutes later when Wal-Mart staff ...

10 years ago
Police evacuate a Salina pharmacy after a bomb threat on Tuesday. Employees at CVS Pharmacy at 681 S. Ohio contacted police after a male called in a bomb threat Tuesday afternoon just before 2:30pm. Two Salina Police patrol units and Salina Fire crews were on the scene as patrons and staff were evacuated. Nothing suspicious was found and ...

10 years ago
A voice familiar to radio listeners in Central Kansas for over a half-century is being remembered. 79-year-old Gary Houser, announcer on Salina Media Group Radio Station AM 1560 KABI in Abilene, died early Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash. According to Dickinson County Undersheriff James Swisher, Houser was driving his small pickup truck on Highway 40 headed ...

10 years ago
Kansas says its tax collections fell $21 million short of expectations in September. The lower-than-anticipated collections were disclosed Tuesday in the state Department of Revenue's monthly preliminary revenue report. The development could cause a short-term increase in the state's predicted budget shortfall of $238 million by July 2016. The department emphasized that even with overall taxes falling ...