11 years ago
A south-central Kansas woman faces two felony counts after a house fire killed her 23-month-old twin sons. Pratt County Attorney Ken Van Blaricum said Friday that Destry Ibarra is charged with two counts of aggravated endangering a child for the Dec. 23, 2013, fire that killed her sons, Jayce and Jasper. He says Ibarra was arrested ...

11 years ago
Tools and fencing items are stolen from an outbuilding in southeast Saline County. Saline County Sheriff's Deputies were called to the 6900 block of S. Simpson Road on Thursday afternoon after property owner, Glenn Skulborstad discovered his Morton Building had been burglarized. Deputies say someone forced open the door and removed numerous hand tools and power tools ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating a damage to property case. Officers were called to the 1800 block of S. Broadway after a 2001 Buick sedan was vandalized. The owner told police that someone punctured the radiator, tampered with fuses and stole the nuts from the vehicle's suspension sway bar. Damage is estimated at $900. Salina Police arrest a ...

11 years ago
Salina area high school senior basketball players will get an opportunity to square off against college seniors from Kansas State and Wichita State in May. The Collegiate All-Stars Barnstorming Tour will visit Salina Central High School on Wednesday, May 7. Scheduled to appear and play for the Collegiate All-Stars are Kansas State seniors Will Spradling, Shane ...

11 years ago
Leaders at Fort Riley are preparing to outline what residents can expect at the northeast Kansas Army post as the military looks to downsize. Lt. Gen. Paul Funk, commanding general of Fort Riley and the 1st Infantry Division, will outline a plan Friday that looks through the year 2020. Nearly 18,000 soldiers are currently assigned to the ...

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Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole is coming home to Kansas to visit the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas later this month. The 90-year-old former Senate majority leader will take part in a one-hour open house April 22 at the institute on the Lawrence campus. Doors will open to the public at 10 ...

11 years ago
State and local officials are gathering in Manhattan to discuss water needs in Kansas and begin developing a 50-year plan for managing water resources. The daylong meeting Friday includes members of the State Board of Agriculture, the Kansas Water Authority and a council advising Gov. Sam Brownback on the economy. Brownback called in October for a 50-year ...

11 years ago
A group of Kansas officials and economists will gather next week to study revenue projections for the coming year, determining if the state economy is growing and if tax receipts will keep government afloat. Legislative leaders on Thursday gave differing views of what the projections for the fiscal year that starts July 1 may look like, ...

11 years ago
A White House official says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. Website failures marred the opening weeks of the six-month enrollment period, but the administration rebounded strongly by ...

11 years ago
Federal prosecutors allege a Kansas metal finishing firm dumped untreated wastewater into a city sewer system. A 24-count indictment filed late Wednesday also accuses C & R Plating and its owner, Kevin L. Cline, with submitting fraudulent samples and reports of analysis to conceal the pollution from state environmental regulators. Cline did not immediately return a message ...

11 years ago
The nine-foot statue of a well armed Viking that will be unveiled on Bethany's campus this weekend, grew out of a sketch artist Dick Bergen drew over 20-years ago. Bergen said financial concerns put a hold on the project then, "And the sketch went into a file," he said. After Bergen was named Kansan of Year in ...