11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is campaigning on his administration's efforts to fight against what he calls federal government overreach. The Republican governor found a friendly audience for his re-election pitch Monday at the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association convention. Brownback recounted steps the state is taking to fight the listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a ...

11 years ago
A residential burglary is halted when the owner walks in on two suspects ransacking her house. Salina Police say the 33-year-old woman was also attacked by a female acquaintance when she confronted the man and woman who were allegedly in her home in the 1200 block of Apache on Friday night just after 11pm. Police say 35-year-old ...

11 years ago
Salina Police get a Sunday morning call about a possible pipe bomb. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an area resident contacted police at 11:04am on Sunday - after they noticed what looked like a pipe bomb in the alley behind the 600 block of W. Prescott. Officers cordoned off the area after they located a device wrapped ...

11 years ago
The Kansas congressional delegation will be taking the stage at the annual convention of the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association. Panelists at Monday's event include Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts for a discussion of political and regulatory challenges to the nation's energy future. Roberts will be joined on the panel by the state's four U.S. ...

11 years ago
A Kansas park ranger says two fishermen saved a man who accidentally drove into the Cheney Reservoir in south-central Kansas. Cheney State Park ranger Mike Satterlee tells KWCH-TV the accident occurred Saturday night. He says the driver "got turned around" and drove down a boat ramp into the water. Three passengers escaped but the driver couldn't get ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says that his friend and former aide is not his obvious choice to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court. Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Caleb Stegall was Brownback's chief counsel until the governor appointed him to the state's second-highest court in January of this year. Stegall is now among three finalists for ...

11 years ago
The Lawrence school district is using national sexuality education standards in all of its schools this year. District employee Sarah Oatsvall says the national standards are more comprehensive than state standards approved by the State Board of Education in 2006. The goal of the standards is to improve the students' self-image, promote good behaviors and help ...

11 years ago
Federal investigators say 57 wild horses that died after being transferred to a corral in Kansas likely succumbed to stress, age and changes caused by the move. A preliminary report says federal investigators found no signs of infectious or contagious disease in the horses. The report says the shift from pasture to corral environment, and the ...

11 years ago
The 36-year-old wife of the gunman who killed one man and wounded a woman in a shooting in Topeka has been sentenced to 14 years and one month in prison. Jamie Engstrom was sentenced Friday for conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and other charges in the February 2013 death of 34-year-old Ricky Mitchell of Topeka and ...

11 years ago
The humble remnants of a canal that was part of a 19th-century plan to irrigate southwest Kansas farms are among the state's latest nominees for the National Register of Historic Places. The Hutchinson News reports the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review voted recently to forward nine nominations to the Keeper of the National Register in ...

11 years ago
A new television ad for Kansas governor Sam Brownback is giving his Democratic opponent a bit of unintended free advertising. The Wichita Eagle reported Friday that the ad features the governor touting his record and takes credit for 55,000 private sector jobs and a 4.9 percent unemployment rate. He assures the audience that "the sun is ...