11 years ago
A Wichita man has been sentenced to 61 years in prison for robbing and raping a 76-year-old woman. On Friday, the Sedgwick County prosecutor announced that 18-year-old Marquatesz Redmon had been sentenced Thursday. More than 51 years of the sentence is for the rape conviction. He also will serve time for aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and ...

11 years ago
People have been flooding insurance agencies with calls about adding earthquake coverage after a 4.8 magnitude temblor rocked part of Kansas on Wednesday. The Wichita Eagle reported that because Kansas doesn't have a history of earthquake losses, the price and deductibles are low compared to more quake-prone places like California. Traditionally, earthquakes have been relatively infrequent in ...

11 years ago
A Colorado man is searching a possible crash zone after his $1,000 drone went missing three months ago. Chad Little has mapped out the area where he believes it disappeared and is asking for help finding it. Little only had the drone for a few days when he took it out for a flight on Aug. 8 ...

11 years ago
A Salina child was injured in a single vehicle crash on a slick road early Saturday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 56-year-old Kerry Retter was driving a Ford F 250 pickup truck headed eastbound on Interstate 70. He lost control due to slick conditions. The truck entered the south ditch, rolling one time, and coming ...

11 years ago
A band of light to moderate snow has developed over central Kansas. Moderate to heavy snow is expected to continue through the early afternoon. Accumulating snowfall between 1 and 3 inches is likely for the area with locally higher amounts possible over north central Kansas. Wind up to 15 mph will create hazardous travel with reduced visibilities ...

11 years ago
A suburban St. Louis school district says schools will get early notice once the Ferguson grand jury reaches a decision. A letter on the Hazelwood School District's site from Superintendent Grayling Tobias says the St. Louis County prosecutor's office will alert districts 24 hours before the media if the decision is on a weekend. If it's a ...

11 years ago
A former Salina man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for fatally poisoning his wife with nicotine in 1994 and collecting on her life insurance policy. Paul Marshal Curry, formerly of Salina, was sentenced Friday for murder more than two decades after his wife, Linda Curry, died in bed. Curry was a suspect but ...

11 years ago
A new report shows that Kansas consumers seeking health insurance on the federally-run online marketplace will pay about the same next year as they did in 2014. The Kansas Health Institute, a nonpartisan health policy and research organization, released a report Saturday as the second sign up period got underway. It showed that the average premium ...

11 years ago
A federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Kansas School of Medicine did not discriminate against a disabled student when it rescinded her admission in 2011 because she could not physically meet its requirements. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals sided Friday with the university in the lawsuit brought by Emily McCulley, who suffers ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court says it will begin deliberating next week on whether to keep in place its order barring a Johnson County judge from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Written arguments in the case were due late Friday. No public hearings were scheduled. The court begins its deliberations on Monday. The state of Kansas filed ...

11 years ago
A new government report shows more Kansas farms put more acres under irrigation last year than in 2008, when the last survey was taken. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday that its survey showed 5,243 Kansas farms were irrigating 2.85 million acres of crops last year. That compares with the 2008 survey when 4,508 farms ...