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 ...

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 ...