11 years ago
Wichita school board members will consider banning firearms from school district buildings or district-owned vehicles, except by law enforcement officers. The Wichita Eagle reports the proposed policy is a response to new state legislation that changes concealed carry in public buildings. The new policy set for board consideration Monday would clarify that Wichita schools are gun-free ...

11 years ago
It’s not about how fast you go. It’s about how you run the race. In the Great Race, this is no cliché. Three McPherson College students and a staff member are entering a red-and-white 1957 Ford Fairlane in the annual event. For them, winning really will depend on how they race. Tony DiValentin, junior, Fort Myers, Fla., ...

11 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is still considering action on the state's budget, with a spokeswoman saying a decision is expected over the weekend. Legislators finished work on the budget on June 2, laying out how to spend $14.5 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. The Republican governor has until Sunday by law to ...

11 years ago
The executive director of the Kansas Corporation Commission no longer works for the commission. KCC spokesman Jesse Borjon told The Topeka Capital-Journal that as of Friday, Patti Petersen-Klein is no longer employed by the commission. He did not specify if she was fired or quit. Controversy erupted recently after a consultant's report stated a rift had developed ...

11 years ago
The booming heard in Salina Thursday night wasn't thunder, it was the sound of a full-scale military training operation. A deployment that includes members of Air Force, Navy and Army units, as well as representatives of the U.S. Special Operations Command and United Kingdom Special Operations is underway. The event includes close air support training and live ...

11 years ago
A 10-member contingent from Hutchinson Community College is heading west to help fight Colorado's massive wildfire. The group is made up of students, former students and instructors in the college's fire science program. They expected to leave for the Colorado Springs area Friday. The group includes Jessica Peters, a Wichita resident and second-year student in the program. ...

11 years ago
Department of Agriculture officials are asking all licensed scale service companies to attend a meeting to discuss the low accuracy rate of heavy-capacity scales. The meeting will be June 27 at the department's Topeka headquarters. Tim Tyson, director of the department's Division of Weights and Measures, said in a letter that large scale accuracy rates are lower ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is urging Governor Sam Brownback to veto provisions in a proposed state budget for each of the next two years. Schmidt said in a statement Thursday that he and county prosecutors object to two provisions that would take funds from his agency. Both Brownback and Schmidt are ...

11 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal agency has rejected Wichita based Beechcraft's protest of the award of an Air Force contract for light air support planes to Sierra Nevada Corporation and its Brazil based partner, Embraer. Both companies issued statements Thursday announcing the decision by the Government Accountability Office. It's the latest development in a high ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has signed legislation making additional cuts to Kansas income taxes over the next five years. The Republican governor made the measure official during a ceremony Thursday at a construction site in Overland Park. Another event was planned later in Wichita. The changes in income tax rates include an adjustment in the standard deduction for ...

11 years ago
The winter wheat harvest is off to a slow, tentative start in south-central Kansas. Steve Inslee, general manager at the OK Co-op in Kiowa, said Thursday that local farmers have cut a few acres and the grain elevator has taken a couple of loads of wheat. He doesn't look for the area's harvest to begin in ...