11 years ago
The Wichita school district is considering revising its policy for reporting suspected abuse. The change the board will consider Monday comes more than a year after the controversial firing of a kindergarten teacher. The long-time teacher acknowledged that she delayed reporting allegations of sexual abuse for two weeks. The Wichita Eagle reports that the proposed policy would ...

11 years ago
Junction City Police are investigating a weekend shooting death. According to a news release, around 2:45a Saturday morning officers from the Junction City Police Department and Deputies from the Geary County Sheriffs Office were called to the area of 10th & Webster in reference to a report of a shot being fired in the area. When they ...

11 years ago
Authorities are investigating after a motorist was shot while heading south on Interstate 35 in northeast Kansas. The Miami County Sheriff's Office said Sunday that it's hunting for the shooter. The shooting occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday. Emergency crews transported one patient to Overland Park Regional Medical Center with a lower-leg wound. Because authorities feared a ...

11 years ago
A police pursuit late Saturday afternoon ends with a crash but no injuries. The pursuit ended as the car being chased sped through the Country Hills Apartments at the corner of East Crawford Street and Marymount Road. It crashed into a trash dumpster and hit a pole before coming to rest in front of the Sterling House ...

11 years ago
Former Kansas Budget Director Steve Anderson is going to work for a think tank that advocates tax cuts and lower school funding. The certified public accountant will have a part-time consulting role with the Wichita-based Kansas Policy Institute. KPI President Dave Trabert says Anderson’s experience as a CPA and his time in government make him “uniquely qualified ...

11 years ago
Ethanol producers say they are running up against market and regulatory pressures that are putting a crimp on the industry's future. Lower prices for corn helps with production, but experts say the industry is providing all the ethanol to satisfy government and market demands. Dave Vander Griend, president of ICM in south-central Kansas, tells the Wichita Eagle ...

11 years ago
Kansas U.S. Senator Pat Roberts says the food assistance program is the "redline' for Democrats in the passage of the farm bill. He says his is crop insurance. The Republican senator told farm leaders Saturday that the Senate will not pass a farm bill without what it sees as an "appropriate" food assistance program, commonly known ...

11 years ago
A man captured after a four-day search across southern Kansas has been charged with attempted capital murder in the shooting of a Butler County sheriff's deputy. Forty-one-year-old Jan Kilbourne made a first appearance Friday afternoon in Butler County District Court. The Wichita Eagle reports his court-appointed lawyer did not object when the state requested he be ...

11 years ago
Governor Sam Brownback has signed legislation revising the Kansas law allowing convicted murderers to be sentenced to at least 50 years in prison. Lawmakers approved the measure this week during a two-day special session. Brownback signed it Friday and delivered it to the secretary of state's office. The law will take effect September 12th when it is ...

11 years ago
Newly released sampling data from 51 Kansas counties show slightly more of this year's wheat graded as top quality. The National Agricultural Statistics Service said Friday in its annual wheat quality report that 85 percent of the samples graded as No. 1 wheat, compared with 83 percent last year. About 14 percent of the samples graded as ...

11 years ago
A panel appointed by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is recommending several strategies for reducing childhood poverty, including strengthening marriages, improving educational opportunities and reforming welfare-to-work programs. The Governor's Task Force on Reducing Childhood Poverty released its report Friday, calling its recommendations a starting point for policymakers. The report urges more targeted use of public funds to reduce ...