10 years ago
Two groups are offering up to $5,000 for information leading to a conviction in the shooting of seven American white pelicans in Kansas earlier this month. The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust announced the reward Monday. The federally protected birds were shot in September at the ...

10 years ago
A Dickinson County man admits to embezzling railroad union funds. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, a former secretary-treasurer of a railroad union pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling union funds. 62-year-old Dale T. Hull of Herington, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling union funds. In his plea, Hull admitted the crime occurred while he ...

10 years ago
A Topeka man who police say was naked and bloody before his arrest is charged with premeditated first-degree murder in this girlfriend's death. Shawnee County District Court records show Trevor William Adkins was also charged Friday with misdemeanor counts of endangering a child and battery. He remains jailed Monday on $1 million bond in the death ...

10 years ago
Newton police say they are evacuating several downtown buildings after a suspicious device was found near a community corrections office. KAKE-TV reports police received a bomb threat to the corrections office early Monday and responding officers found a suspicious device in a planter outside the building. Evacuations have been ordered in a one block radius around the ...

10 years ago
Salina Police report a vehicle was damaged in the 500 block of Montrose between midnight and 7am on Sunday. Police report someone tried to steal a truck by smashing the driver side window on a 2002 Ford F-250 and then damaged the ignition by attempting to start the pickup. Total damage is listed at $500. A ...

10 years ago
Canoes and a set of oars are taken from a Salina yard. Police are looking for someone who cut the padlocks and cable on two green, plastic Old Town Canoes that were stored at a home in the 200 block of River Run between Wednesday and Thursday morning. Police say the 14-foot canoe and a 16-foot canoe, ...

10 years ago
A judge has ruled that the suspect in the death of a man near Great Bend will go to trial in February. District Judge Ron Svaty ruled Friday that Jeffrey Wade Chapman is competent to stand trial in the death of 25-year-old Damon Galyardt, whose body was found near Great Bend in November ...

10 years ago
A trailer is stolen from the lot at a Salina auto dealer. Police are investigating the theft of a 8-foot by 20-foot cargo, Tail Wind trailer from Mike Sell Motors at 624 N. Santa Fe. Police say someone cut the lock and cable on the trailer sometime between Friday at 3pm and Saturday night at 8pm. Total loss ...

10 years ago
Kansas school districts report a higher pace of teachers retiring while the number of newly licensed teachers remains flat. More than 2,000 teachers retired last school year. The state's education department says that's double the number of teachers that retired five years earlier. Scott Myers is the department's director of teacher education and licensure. He says the ...

10 years ago
A Kansas education official says a new tax-credit system to fund private school tuition for low-income students is on track to start in January. Deputy education commissioner Dale Dennis says application forms for the tuition program are nearly ready. The program will allow businesses to donate to nonprofit organizations for scholarships for low-income children attending public schools ...

10 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is bringing in another Republican heavy-hitter to help bolster his troubled campaign for re-election. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be in Wichita on Monday for a fundraising event for the Kansas senator. His visit on the campaign trial comes just days after former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigned with Roberts in southeast ...