11 years ago
The Dillon Nature Center in Hutchinson is planning its first major upgrades since its hands-on indoor exhibits were installed 15 years ago. The changes will be installed in August, with the complete project expected to be finished by early September. The nature center is conducting a $300,000 capital campaign to fund the projects. The project will include ...

11 years ago
An Oklahoma woman says she is heartbroken after a ground-level plaque for one of her two infant sons buried in a Topeka cemetery has been removed after three decades. Angela Hudson says both of her sons' graves have been marked with plaques since the 1970s, but her sister visited the graves on Memorial Day and found ...

11 years ago
Four people are hurt when their car hits a disabled vehicle on Interstate 135 in McPherson County late Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a small passenger car was disabled and unoccupied in the road after hitting a deer. The unoccupied car was hit by two other vehicles. No one was hurt in the first ...

11 years ago
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of an experimental plane crash that killed two men. The plane crashed shortly after taking off Sunday morning in a field west of the Great Bend Municipal Airport. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victims as 49-year-old Roger Brining of Great Bend and 24-year-old Daniel Bishop of Clearfield, ...

11 years ago
Correctional officers were searching for a minimum security inmate who was reported missing from his work site over the weekend. 43-year-old Christopher Ward was discovered missing around 5:30 p.m. Saturday from his work site at Cal-Maine Industries. The Hutchinson Correctional Facility inmate was incarcerated for convictions for burglary, theft, aggravated burglary, fleeing and eluding, and aggravated escape ...

11 years ago
Student government leaders at the University of Kansas say they are disappointed that the university is shifting some prized seats in Allen Fieldhouse from students to donors after the Student Senate eliminated a $25 student fee. The university's athletics department is moving students from seats behind the bench and near the tunnel where Kansas basketball players ...

11 years ago
Two people are dead after their single-engine airplane crashed into a central Kansas field not long after takeoff. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victims as a 49-year-old Great Bend man and a 24-year-old man from Utah. Both died a the scene. The patrol says the Pottier P70 crashed at 11:33 a.m. Sunday in Barton County after ...

11 years ago
A retired FedEx jet has found a new home and purpose as a classroom for Liberal students to learn math and science in southwest Kansas. The donated Boeing 727, which was built in 1979 and also had a career as a passenger jet, will be called the Liberal Learning Jet. The jet named "Alina" arrived Thursday at ...

11 years ago
A program that seeks to persuade people from other states to move into rural parts of Kansas is taking aim at travelers making their way through the Flint Hills between Topeka and Wichita along the Kansas turnpike. Three large aluminum signs have been affixed to turnpike overpasses promising outsiders a chance to "Live tax free in ...

11 years ago
An Alabama woman is transported to the hospital in Salina late Saturday night after a truck she is riding in collides with a deer. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 42-year-old Morgan Fouliard was driving a pickup truck headed east on Interstate 70. He hit a southbound deer that crossed into the driving lane. A ...

11 years ago
There was no jackpot winner in Saturday night’s $221 million Powerball drawing. According to the lottery, the estimated jackpot for Wednesday is $257 million. The cash option is $151.9 million. Both of those numbers could likely rise within the next couple of days. The winning numbers Saturday were 28, 30, 35, 58, and 59. The Powerball was ...