11 years ago
the Kansas public pension system says it had robust investment gains last year but still saw its long-term funding gap grow to $10.2 billion. The gap widened because the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System was still booking deferred losses from the 2008 collapse of financial markets. A Kansas House committee reviewed the figures Wednesday. The gap represents the ...

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It was an important landmark for western pioneers traveling on the Santa Fe Trail, the Point of Rocks at the Dodge City limits which now holds the city’s welcome sign. It indicated to wagon trains that they were headed in the right direction, but a plan to widen Highway 50 between Dodge and Cimarron could mean ...

11 years ago
Kansas officials say the state will join several others in letting a federal waiver that allows an estimated 20,000 Kansans to receive food assistance without keeping a job expire. The Kansas Department for Children and Families says it wants to encourage employment over welfare dependency. Able-bodied adults with no dependents would need to work no ...

11 years ago
Thousands of free tickets to see one of the hottest acts in country music perform in Salina sold out in three minutes Wednesday morning. Florida Georgia Line will perform a free concert in Salina on Sunday September 22nd. The duo, known for the #1 smash hit "Cruise", has skyrocketed to the top of the country charts. ...

11 years ago
Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo says he will vote in support of authorizing a U.S. strike on Syria. The Republican congressman spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press by phone from Israel. Pompeo is traveling to several Middle Eastern countries this week as part of his role on the House Intelligence Committee. The rest of ...

11 years ago
A man who decided to commit a robbery in southwest Missouri walked into the wrong liquor store. The clerk at the Beer 30 in Marionville on Sunday night, Jon Lewis Alexander, is a 30-year military man, former prison guard and the owner of a loaded handgun that he always keeps with him. A store ...

11 years ago
Butler County's sheriff has sent detectives to southwest Kansas in search of a man suspected of shooting one of his deputies. The search for 41-year-old Jan Tracy Kilbourne has entered its third day since he exchanged gunfire with a Butler County deputy around 5:15 a.m. Monday. A bullet hit the deputy in the shoulder but most ...

11 years ago
Thieves hit a Salina woman's home while she is away. Police say that sometime between Saturday and Tuesday multiple items were stolen from a home at 1436 Cheyenne. The owner was away, and when she returned she found that the house had been rummaged  through and multiple items were missing. Missing items include a 52" television, a ...

11 years ago
A legislative effort to repeal a Kansas law requiring new voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering has stalled. The House refused Tuesday to consider a proposal to rescind the policy, which took effect in January. The proposal from Wichita Democrat Jim Ward would have allowed new voters to simply affirm that they are citizens, ...

11 years ago
Legislation revamping a Kansas law imposing an automatic 50-year sentence on some convicted murderers is now in the state Senate. The House passed the measure 122-0 Tuesday on the first day of a special session prompted by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a similar law in Virginia. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to ...

11 years ago
The Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the Fort Hood shooting rampage has been forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan began growing a beard in the years after the November 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 30 wounded. The beard prompted delays to his court-martial because it violated Army grooming regulations. Hasan is at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., ...