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Fred Phelps Sr. led his small Topeka church for more than two decades in a bellicose crusade against gays and lesbians, declaring that the U.S. was doomed because of its tolerance of homosexuality. But the tactics of Phelps and his Westboro Baptist followers created public circuses that some say may have helped the gay-rights movement. Protesters targeted ...

11 years ago
A leader of the Southern Baptist Convention says it has no connection whatsoever to the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church founded by the Rev. Fred Phelps, who died late Wednesday at the age of 84. The Rev. Russell Moore, president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, calls Westboro's message that God hates gays an ugly ...

11 years ago
Two people are dead after a pickup truck crossed the median on a northeast Kansas highway and struck a car head-on. The Highway Patrol says the accident happened about 1:20 a.m. Thursday on Kansas 10 in Johnson County. Investigators said a westbound pickup driven by 45-year-old Johnnie Royce Jackson, of Kansas City, Mo., crossed the grass median ...

11 years ago
A Salina man falls victim to a scam. Salina Police report a 53-year-old man met a woman online who convinced him she needed help with paying her bills. The woman allegedly sent him a check for $4,400 with instructions to cash it. He was then asked to wire it to a man in Florida who would then ...

11 years ago
As the hunt continues for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Kansas State University Salina aviation professor says using unmanned aircraft systems could make the search more efficient. Kurt Barnhart is head of the department of aviation and executive director of the Applied Aviation Research Center at K-State Salina. He said unmanned aircraft systems would be ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a business burglary. According to Captain Chris Trocheck, someone forced open a door at the Prairieland Market, 305 E. Walnut sometime between Tuesday night at 10pm and Wednesday morning at 10am. Officers say $1,000 worth of steaks, ground beef and pork was stolen as well as a Dell laptop and business phone. Total loss ...

11 years ago
The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who founded a Kansas church widely known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, has died. That's according to his son Tim Phelps and KSN Wichita sister station Kansas First News. Phelps, 84, was being cared for in a Shawnee County facility, Westboro Baptist Church spokesman Steve Drain said ...

11 years ago
An early morning fire destroys a semi truck at the Sale Barn. A knock on the cab door woke up 24-year-old Cody Ford around 3:43am this morning - as an unidentified man alerted him that his 2001 Kenworth semi truck was on fire. Moments later crews from Rural Fire District #7 arrived on scene at Farmers and ...

11 years ago
A project to cleanup contamination in the Salina Airport Industrial Area is beginning this Spring. Late last Spring local, state, and federal officials reached an agreement on cleanup funding. As part of the agreement, the federal government will fund 90 percent of the cleanup, with local entities funding 10 percent. Local officials had been trying ...

11 years ago
A sure sign of Spring are those orange barrels on Kansas roads and highways. Road construction on Interstate 70 in Dickinson County has started. According to the Kansas Department of Transportation, construction on I-70 in Dickinson County resumed Thursday morning. Westbound traffic is being moved onto the passing lane of the completed eastbound lanes placing ...

11 years ago
An Army spokesman says an escaped inmate who eluded capture for 37 years is back behind bars at the military's maximum-security prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Spokesman George Marcec confirmed Thursday that convicted killer James Robert Jones returned to military custody this week from Florida and is being housed at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks. It ...