10 years ago
Kansas says its tax collections in October fell $23 million short of expectations. The state Department of Revenue reported Friday that the state had collected $417 million in taxes, or 5.2 percent less than the $440 million anticipated. Since the start of the current fiscal year in July, tax collections have been nearly $47 million less than ...

10 years ago
A squirrel is being blamed for an hour-long power outage in Emporia that left Emporia State University and thousands of customers temporarily in the dark. The Emporia Gazette reports a little more than 3,000 customers of Westar Energy and Lyon-Coffey Electric lost power when a squirrel came in contact with electrical equipment on a transmission line ...

10 years ago
A Saline County Commissioner is transported to the hospital after a single vehicle crash. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, Commissioner Randy Duncan told EMS he had back pain after his 2013 Ford Focus ran off the road and crashed through a barbed wire fence in the 11000 block of W. State Street on Thursday afternoon. Duncan tells ...

10 years ago
At 6:30 AM on October 26, 2014 a Drive-by-Shooting occurred at 829 Custer. Five shots were fired into the north side of the residence, which was occupied by one adult and two young children. A dark colored SUV was observed in the area at the time of the shooting. If you have any information ...

10 years ago
A missing man from Herington is found. Family and friends had been searching for 54-year-old Donald Swiger, who had not been seen since 6:05 Thursday morning. He had dropped a relative off at a house a couple of blocks away from his own home, and had not not been seen since. Family were worried because Swiger ...

10 years ago
An institute at the University of Kansas that serves lifelong learners is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Osher Institute offers classes on a variety of subjects, including movies, politics, history, arts, sports and technology. The courses generally consist of three two-hour sessions, taught by local experts. Three thousand people took classes at the Osher Institute last ...

10 years ago
Inauguration of Baker University's new president has been postponed so the school can deal with the death of a student. President Lynne Murray was supposed to celebrate her inauguration at 11 a.m. Thursday, but that and related events were canceled after she learned of the death of sophomore Sione Maumau. Murray gave brief remarks at an all-university ...

10 years ago
Hutchinson police say a worker at a recycling company has died after being struck by a piece of machinery. Officers say the death of 29-year-old Joshua Tracy of Hutchinson is being treated as an industrial accident. The employee of MidWest Iron & Metal was taken by an ambulance to a Hutchinson hospital with trauma injuries from ...

10 years ago
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says a federal prosecutor will be on duty election day to respond promptly to complaints of possible election fraud and voting rights violations in Kansas. Grissom says in a news release that anyone who has evidence of possible electoral corruption or voting rights abuses on Tuesday should call his office. Prosecutors across the ...

10 years ago
Officials believe the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a flight-training building at Wichita's airport is among the four people who were killed. Wichita Fire Chief Ronald Blackwell confirmed that three of the dead were inside the building when the plane crashed into it Thursday at the Mid-Continent Airport. Blackwell said the fourth victim ...

10 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach predicts turnout for Tuesday's elections will be about 50 percent, even without more than 20,000 people on a suspended voters list because they haven't provided proof of citizenship. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kobach on Thursday predicted about 872,000 people will vote out of about 1.74 million registered voters. The prediction ...