10 years ago
A Kansas school district that has equipped high school and middle school students with laptop computers and tablets is finding its wireless network overwhelmed. The Derby Informer reports the problem is most acute during the 42-minute advisory period each afternoon at Derby High School. The school's roughly 2,000 students were issued laptops in the past year, and ...

10 years ago
Kansas officials have revoked the license of a nurse who was fired and later charged with sexually assaulting three patients. The Kansas City Star reports that the Kansas State Board of Nursing took the final steps to strip Dennis Clark of his license Friday. The 47-year-old Gardner man was charged last month in Wyandotte County District ...

10 years ago
A pair of  Kansas National Guard soldiers are remembered on the 10 year anniversary of their deaths in Iraq. Clinton Lee Wisdom and Don Allen Clary were killed while defending a convoy from an insurgent attack on November 8th, 2004. According to the National Guard, SFC Clinton Lee Wisdom from Atchison, and SGT Don Allen Clary from ...

10 years ago
A missing Salina teen has been found safe. 15-year-old Shyann Hubbard had been missing since Monday afternoon. Family and friends had feared for her safety because of a medical condition. Shyann was found safe overnight Friday.      

10 years ago
Salina firefighters were on the scene of a house fire late Friday night. Crews were called to 107 West Prescott just before midnight. First responders to the scene discovered heavy smoke and flames coming from the home. The occupants, and their pets, were able to escape. Crews had the fire under control at 12:30. The home is uninhabitable. The ...

10 years ago
Kansas plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve its gay-marriage ban while a legal challenge from two lesbian couples is considered by lower federal courts. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Friday that he'll act before a federal judge's injunction barring the state from enforcing its ban takes effect Tuesday. Schmidt announced his plans after the ...

10 years ago
Federal data shows that political and special interest groups spent nearly $17 million in Kansas starting in September in the nationally watched race between Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and his independent challenger. Online records of the Federal Election Commission show the three-term GOP incumbent benefited more from the outside spending than independent candidate Greg Orman. Roberts ...

10 years ago
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for gay marriages to start in Kansas next week. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Friday denied a request from the state to block an order from a lower-court judge preventing Kansas from enforcing its ban on gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree put ...

10 years ago
Jefferson County officials say a 58-year-old man died after apparently falling into a grain bin. Sheriff Jeffrey Herrig says emergency crews were called Thursday afternoon to the farm of Mike Miller about eight miles west of Valley Falls. WIBW reports that Herrig says Miller fell into a grain bin and died before crews could rescue him. Details of ...

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Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to stay a judge's preliminary injunction against the state enforcing its gay-marriage ban. The state attorney general's office filed the request Thursday with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, a day after appealing a ruling from U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree. The judge ruled in lawsuit filed ...

10 years ago
Authorities say an 83-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in northeast Kansas after he got out of the vehicle to check on an injured deer. Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn says Joe Knitter, of Clay Center, died in the accident early Friday on U.S. 24. Dunn says Knitter's wife hit a deer. He got out ...