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 ...

11 years ago
Officials in Pittsburg are weighing whether to join other southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri communities in requiring prescriptions for a key ingredient in methamphetamine. The Morning Sun reports Pittsburg Police Chief Mendy Hulvey is pushing an ordinance that would make a decongestant called pseudoephedrine available only by prescription. Hulvey told city commissioners at a recent study session ...

11 years ago
Heavy overnight rains flooded a southwest Kansas community's streets and caused the roof of a local business to partially collapse. The Wichita Eagle reports more than 4 inches of rain fell in Garden City in a matter of hours just after midnight Saturday, stranding motorists and prompting officials to briefly close several roads. The National Weather Service ...

11 years ago
A southwest Kansas prosecutor is considering charges against several young people suspected of being involved in a sexting case in which a teenage girl's nude photographs have been shared with others through text messages. The Hutchinson News reports Garden City police became aware of the incident in January when Garden City High School officials notified them ...

11 years ago
The four day Country Stampede concert event is underway at Tuttle Creek State Park. Campground security workers have their work cut out for them. Worrying about what they’re gonna eat isn’t something they’re worried about, and they don’t have to. Gary Shook, campground security supervisor for the KICKER Country Stampede, has been feeding campground security and ...

11 years ago
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper faces multiple felony charges stemming from a domestic dispute with his wife. A complaint filed Friday charges 37-year-old Darrin Duane Hirsh of Great Bend with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of criminal threat, domestic battery, two counts of witness intimidation and two counts of violation of a ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is arrested months after a crash that killed an elderly person. Police arrested 50-year-old Dennis D. Campbell, 220 S. 7th Street, on Thursday in connection to an accident that occurred on September 9th, 2013. The crash happened in the 2100 block of Tulane and sent 93-year-old Eugene Olson to ICU at Salina Regional Health ...

11 years ago
The debut of the world's tallest water slide has been delayed for a third time and there's no word on when the Kansas City, Kansas, attraction will be ready for riders. Schlitterbahn Waterpark says Verruckt will not open as scheduled on Sunday. The park's news release, sent Thursday night, offers no explanation for the delay. Problems with ...

11 years ago
The U.S. Postal Service has conceded to the small central Kansas town of St. John. After complaints from residents, the postal service says the town's name will be changed in its database from Saint John to St John. However, it won't have the period behind the "S-T" because the service's database does not include any ...

11 years ago
The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit challenging the latest move by Kansas to allow construction of a $2.8 billion coal-fired power plant, partly because the state wouldn't regulate the plant's greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental group says in its filing Friday with the state Court of Appeals that the Kansas Department of Health ...