11 years ago
Wichita is looking into powering its bus fleet with natural gas instead of diesel fuel. The city paid $3.76 a gallon for diesel to run the buses this month; compressed natural gas runs about $1.20 to $1.50 a gallon. But making the switch would require the city's transit facility to undergo major improvements — about $200,000 ...

11 years ago
Pressure is likely to build next year in Kansas to expand Medicaid to cover thousands of uninsured residents, despite the Republican-dominated Legislature's displeasure with the federal health care overhaul. Advocates for the needy and consumers promise to push for an expansion once lawmakers convene their annual session Jan. 13. The nonpartisan Kansas Health Institute estimates an expansion ...

11 years ago
Tyler Lockett’s Kansas State bowl-record 10 catches for 116 yards and three first half touchdowns led the Wildcats to a 31-14 thrashing of Michigan in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl Saturday night at Sun Devil Stadium. It is Kansas State’s first bowl win since the 2002 Holiday Bowl against Arizona State. Tonight’s win came on Arizona ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is letting a life prison sentence stand for an inmate who claimed he was improperly forced to stand trial as an adult in a gang-related killing. The Wichita Eagle  reports that the ruling issued Friday upholds a Sedgwick County judge's decision to leave intact Sashada Makthepharak's life sentence. Makthepharak was convicted in ...

11 years ago
The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications — ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades. Yet despite their be-prepared approach, BSA leaders are rooting ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Court of Appeal has ruled that the state's top water regulator doesn't have power to reduce a landowner's water rights once a permit has been issue. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that this month's decision could limit the state's ability to conserve water resources in the dwindling Ogallala Aquifer. In the ruling, the appeals court also ...

11 years ago
Kansas officials are expecting policymakers to take a wait-and-see approach to taxes during the 2014 session, content to let the changes take hold and build on anecdotal evidence of economic growth. Gov. Sam Brownback and the Republican-controlled Legislature focused during the 2012 and 2013 sessions on eliminating income taxes for some 200,000 businesses and adjusting the ...

11 years ago
Wichita police say a man lost a fingertip when he tried to reach into a car to get his stolen wallet back. Police say that the wallet was taken from the victim's unlocked car early Friday. When the man reached into the car driven by the thief, police said, the thief rolled up the window and ...

11 years ago
Kansas health officials are investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness among patrons of a Garden City restaurant. The state and Finney County health departments said more than 110 cases of the illness were reported as of Friday among people who ate food from a Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches restaurant. Authorities are asking anyone who ate food from ...

11 years ago
A southeast Kansas farmer whose video parody "What Does the Farmer Say" went viral last month has a new hit with his take on a Miley Cyrus song that features twerking cows. Derek Klingenberg's spoof of "What Does the Fox Say?" got more than 4 million views online. The Peabody resident's new video dubbed "Feeding Cattle ...

11 years ago
Salina police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old male child, and two arrests are made. Lt. Shawn Morton says the death was reported at 10:30 Thursday night in South Salina. A man and a woman were initially being questioned. According to police,​ at this time, the Death is investigating this incident as a homicide. The ...