11 years ago
The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee's chairman says he hopes to have a hearing this fall on Gov. Sam Brownback's next nominee to the state Court of Appeals. Chairman Jeff King said Wednesday he's hoping to have a full-day meeting in October or November. He says senators will take the job of vetting the nominee seriously. Brownback will ...

11 years ago
The U.S. House-approved farm bill contains a provision that environmentalists say would ease rules for building a coal-burning power plant in southwest Kansas. Environmentalists have won federal court decisions requiring an environmental review before Hays-based Sunflower Electric Power Corp. can build a $2.8 billion, 895-megawatt plant near Holcomb. Bill Griffith, energy chair of the Kansas chapter of ...

11 years ago
A couple of Salina organizations that deal with drug and domestic violence prevention are awarded state funds. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt the 28th Judicial District Community Corrections was awarded $59,086 to fund a Drug Court Intensive Supervision Officer. Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas was awarded $45,057 to fund provide prevention and education ...

11 years ago
Workers are toiling under the hot summer sun to restore the nation's second-oldest military cemetery in Kansas. The work at the Baxter Springs National Cemetery No. 2 Soldier's Lot will include resetting and aligning all 217 headstones, which weigh about 100 pounds each. After the Civil War, the federal government designated the soldiers' lot on ...

11 years ago
On July 11, T & R Dirt Construction reportedly started noticing that it was missing copper from some of it's construction sites. Salina Police say that workers for the company suspected that employee Jonathan Schmidt was involved in the missing copper. He allegedly bragged about making good money from selling the copper from his home after ...

11 years ago
A Salina based regiment will become the first in the Kansas National Guard to be under the command of a woman. According to the Kansas Adjutant General's Office, Lt. Col. Judith D. Martin will take command of the 235th Regiment, Kansas Amy National Guard, in a ceremony this Saturday at the Kansas Regional Training Institute in ...

11 years ago
A judge has ordered the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to remove a man's name from the state's offender registry for sex, drug and violent crimes. Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks ruled Tuesday that a state law passed two years ago extending the amount of time offenders must remain on the registry is punitive. He says ...

11 years ago
A Kansas man faces a municipal court date after he drowned a caged cat in a lake north of Kansas City. A neighbor and two children saw the man drown the cat. He told police he didn't realize the neighbors were watching. Police say the man, whose name was not released, drowned the cat Sunday afternoon in ...

11 years ago
A state board has rejected proposed temporary changes to the Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship for newly registered voters. The change proposed Tuesday by Secretary of State Kris Kobach was in response to a glitch that caused delays to nearly 12,000 voter registration applications. Kansas now requires that new applications to register to vote also ...

11 years ago
A U.S. Senate subcommittee has approved $404 million in federal spending for the construction of a new federal research laboratory at Kansas State University. The vote Tuesday sends the funding for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility to the full Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration. The money is part of the Department of Homeland Security budget ...

11 years ago
A prosecutor told jurors in his opening statement that a Kansas man added chemicals to gunpowder to increase the explosive power of grenades he was making. The government outlined its case against Alfred Dutton, of Eureka, in federal court Tuesday in Wichita. The 67-year-old veteran of both the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines is charged with ...