11 years ago
The Libertarian party will pick its candidate for governor at the party's convention in Wichita on April 26. About 150 registered Libertarians will choose between Keen Umbehr and Tresa McAlhaney. Because Libertarians are not considered a major party in Kansas, they are prohibited from picking their candidate by ballot in a primary election in August. Some Libertarians ...

11 years ago
Authorities say a school board president for a western Kansas district has been arrested on drug-related charges. Trego County Sheriff Richard Hanks tells television stations KAKE and KWCH that John Reeder was taken into custody Thursday at his WaKeeney home. He is charged with possession of marijuana, criminal use of a firearm and two counts of ...

11 years ago
A group of Kansas House members has filed legislation for the 2014 session that would add three southeast counties to the state's rural opportunity zone program. Gov. Sam Brownback established the program in 2011 to help draw new residents and businesses to counties where populations had dropped by 10 percent in the previous decade. People who ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a vehicle burglary. Police say someone forced entry into a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix that was parked in an apartment complex's lot in the 600 block of S. 3rd during a time frame of December 30th and December 31st. Someone stole stereo equipment including a sub woofer, amp and stereo from ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments this month in the appeal from the convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider. The hearing in the first-degree murder case against Scott Roeder is scheduled for Jan. 29. The court has set aside 30 minutes for it. The abortion opponent is serving a life sentence for shooting ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is beaten and robbed. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, a 29-year-old man told officers he was walking  home in the early morning hours of New Year's Day when he was attacked by four males. The victim told police the attack began around 1:20am after he passed the group on Republic near Vassar. The ...

11 years ago
Kansas Honor Flight is planning six more flights for veterans this year. The Hutchinson-based nonprofit group flies veterans for free to visit memorials in Washington D.C. The first two flights are scheduled for April 16-18 and April 30-May 2. Mike VanCampen, president of Kansas Honor Flight, says dates for the other four flights haven't been scheduled. He says ...

11 years ago
Pepsi-Cola of Topeka is lobbying the Kansas State Board of Education to drop a widely followed recommendation that schools not sell low-calorie sodas. Pepsi of Topeka general manager Patrick O'Donnell says the company has voluntarily changed the products it sells in school vending machines to offer healthier options, even though it meant losing sales. Federal regulations taking ...

11 years ago
The body of a Fort Riley soldier who disappeared while duck hunting on Christmas Eve has been recovered from a Kansas lake. The Geary County Sheriff's office says 31-year-old Thomas Hedrick's body was retrieved Wednesday from Milford Lake. The sheriff's office says Hedrick became stranded on ice on the lake while trying to retrieve a duck he ...

11 years ago
One man is in custody after an apparent homicide in the small Pottawatomie County town of St. Marys. The county sheriff says a 24-year-old Rossville man was found shot to death inside a car Wednesday morning after the car pulled up to the police station and passengers flagged down officers. A 21-year-old St. Marys man who was ...

11 years ago
A Lindsborg man is transported to the hospital after crashing New Year's Day on an icy western Kansas road. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 77-year-old Ronald Johnson was driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck, headed east on Interstate 70. He lost control on the icy road, entered the south ditch, and overturned one half times ...