11 years ago
Two Fort Riley 1st Infantry Division veterans will receive the military's highest award for heroism, the Medal Of Honor. According to Fort Riley, Sgt. Alfred B. Nietzel and Sgt. Candelario Garcia, are among the 24 soldiers set to receive the Medal of Honor at a March 18 ceremony at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. The 24 ...

11 years ago
A former Topeka man will be tried for the 2011 killing of another man whose head was severed in what witnesses described as a voodoo ritual. 29-year-old James Paul Harris was bound over for trial following a hearing Friday in Osage County District Court. Harris is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 50-year-old ...

11 years ago
One of three people accused in a Salina murder appeared in Saline County District Court Friday afternoon. Last spring 27-year-old Kristin Tyler of Salina went missing. The mother of four was missing two weeks before her body was found in a ravine off Interstate 135 in rural Saline County. 25-year-old Joel Heil, 33-year-old Dane DeWeese, and 21-year-old ...

11 years ago
The Salina YMCA has a new leader. According to the organization, Angie Lassley has been selected President and CEO. Lassley’s professional career spans 26 years at YMCA Associations in Salina, Wichita, Indianapolis, IN, and Lexington, KY. Lassley grew up in Salina, and began her YMCA professional career at the Salina Family YMCA. She held positions of increasing ...

11 years ago
State regulators have granted Westar Energy's request for a $43.6 million rate increase. The Kansas Corporation Commission on Thursday approved an increase that would raise residential and small-business bills $83.5 million. Rates paid by butter businesses and school district would have rates reduced by $50 million. The utility sought the rate hike to pay increasing ...

11 years ago
Authorities in Florida say they've arrested a man who escaped from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in 1977. The U.S. Marshals Service says 59-year-old James Robert Jones was arrested Thursday in Deerfield Beach, Fla., where he was living. Jones was serving a 23-year sentence for premeditated murder and aggravated assault when he escaped from ...

11 years ago
NASA has selected a Lawrence business to develop a drone for high-altitude air sampling. NASA and KalScott Engineering Inc. are in the contract phase of the nearly $1 million unmanned air vehicle project. The drone is expected to provide data for earth science programs at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Other possible uses could ...

11 years ago
Wichita State University's School of Nursing is expanding its online offerings with a bachelor's degree in nursing. The school said Thursday the program offers advanced placement to registered nurses seeking a bachelor of science in nursing degree. Wichita State President John Bardo says in a news release that the School of Nursing is offering one of the ...

11 years ago
Kansas Forest Service officials will hold a wildland fire training session this month for state and regional responders. The weeklong event starts March 23 and will focus on reducing hazardous fuels that can lead to rapid spread of fires in wild areas. Crews will be working near Toronto State Lake in southeast Kansas and at the Kansas ...

11 years ago
Police in Wichita say a man who wanted a massage from a naked woman in his motel room changed his mind when she disrobed and ended up fleeing after being threatened by her boyfriend. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1hgvKrf ) reports the woman arrived at the man's room at the Howard Johnson Express Inn shortly after 11 ...

11 years ago
Kansas House Democratic Leader Paul Davis says Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-controlled Legislature should immediately increase aid to poor school districts by $129 million. Davis said Thursday the increase should be the response to a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling that past reductions in such aid created unconstitutional gaps in funding between poor ...