11 years ago
A new barbecue restaurant is planning to build a Salina location. According to Salina Area Chamber of Commerce President Dennis Lauver, Rib Crib plans to expand into Salina. Rib Crib is a restaurant specializing in barbecue and smoked meats. All locations share a common theme of rustic lodge-like surroundings. The first Rib Crib opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Turnpike Authority is considering building a scenic outlook along Interstate 35 to allow travelers to stop and appreciate the Flint Hills. The turnpike authority is considering improvements to on and off ramps south of Emporia that currently serve cattle owners, who truck in their cattle to graze in the spring and then retrieve ...

11 years ago
Former Sen. Bob Dole plans to visit his Kansas hometown Wednesday to dedicate a new mobile unit for use by the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center. A spokeswoman says the dedication will take place at 10:30 a.m. at Russell's VFW Post 6240, located on Bob Dole Drive. The Dole Medical Center in Wichita serves 59 Kansas ...

11 years ago
Five teenagers are accused of stealing a goat from a popular suburban Kansas City children's farm and taking it into a McDonald's restaurant. The Kansas City Star reports the goat was stolen from Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead in Overland Park, Kansas, and spotted around 2 a.m. Sunday in a McDonald's parking lot in Olathe. Olathe police say ...

11 years ago
A home explosion in southwest Kansas has killed a 17-year-old boy and critically injured two others in the residence. Finney County Sheriff Kevin Bascue says the explosion leveled the home at 5:30 p.m. Saturday in Plymell, about 12 miles south of Garden City, and damaged a neighboring home. KWCH-TV identifies the victims as Spencer Unruh, who was ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court says University of Kansas Hospital will have to pick up the $140,000 tab for treating a man who broke his hip after jumping out of a jailhouse window. Alberto Contreras Gonzalez was arrested in March 2006 on drug-related charges but entered a diversion agreement with Wabaunsee County before being transferred to Shawnee ...

11 years ago
Kansas City's municipal animal shelter has taken in more than 900 animals since the start of the month and currently has more animals than ever before, forcing it to convert bathrooms, closets, locker rooms, the basement and the employee break room to find enough space for them all. The No-Kill Advocacy Center says the KC Pet ...

11 years ago
Tea party challenger Milton Wolf says he's reserved $250,000 in television advertising time for his U.S. Senate race, but Republican incumbent Pat Roberts' camp says it has spent twice that in recent weeks. Wolf announced Friday that he's reserved time on cable and broadcast stations throughout Kansas starting Wednesday and running through the Aug. 5 GOP ...

11 years ago
Kansas education groups are gearing up their political activities ahead of the Aug. 5 primary election, putting their money and sweat behind state House candidates that support public schools. Organizers say teachers in particular have had enough, viewing recent changes in teacher licensing and loss of administrative due process as an attack on their profession. The Kansas ...

11 years ago
Congress is wildly unpopular. In fact, two-thirds of Americans want their own House member booted. And the tea party is dogging longtime Republican lawmakers. So incumbents are sweating out this year's election, right? Nope. Mostly they're not. People talk about throwing the bums out, but voters keep sending the same bunch back in. More than halfway through the party primaries, ...

11 years ago
Starting Tuesday, Kansas is granting a yearlong exemption to small commercial trucks from most of the safety regulations it imposes upon larger haulers. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that the exemption is the result of a new law. It was approved by the Legislature this year with large, bipartisan majorities at the urging of owners of ...