11 years ago
A 50-pound tortoise that disappeared from outside its northeast Kansas has been found and returned home. Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf says the brown African spurred tortoise was found Friday. The animal was unharmed but stuck on a ledge in a ravine behind its owners' home outside Junction City. Wolf says the tortoise wasn't injured ...

11 years ago
Over the weekend, it was reported to Police that a burglary took place at 100 N Fifth; Assurance Insurance. The building was going through remodeling and was vulnerable to the public, only a board covering a door was keeping those who wanted in, out. The burglar/burglar's entered through the board covered doorway and cut out and stole ...

11 years ago
The license of a Hays day care center is temporarily suspended while authorities investigate the cause of an 8-week-old infant's death. Hays Police Chief Don Scheibler says the infant died Saturday at a Wichita hospital. The child was hospitalized after emergency personnel went to Michelle M. Sarver's home day care on Wednesday because the infant ...

11 years ago
The recent wet weather has helped the mosquito population quickly grow. According to the Salina-Saline County Health Department, mosquitoes have more places to breed this year, due to recent rains and flooding. West Nile Virus and other diseases can be spread by mosquito bites. The department reminds the public to take precautions to protect themselves and ...

11 years ago
A 2-year-old Kansas girl who was critically injured when a stone wall fell on her is surprising her family with her quick recovery. Trayleigh Humphries of Halstead was injured Friday night while trying to crawl on the 6 1/2-foot wall, when 2-inch thick bricks fell on her. Her falther, Steven Humphries, says she suffered ...

11 years ago
A man involved in a convenience store robbery that set off a chain of events leading to the death of a Kansas State University researcher has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. 23-year-old Frank Joseph Hanson of Manhattan pleaded guilty earlier this year to brandishing a weapon during a robbery at the ...

11 years ago
A male black bear at the Great Bend zoo has died. The bear — named Clyde — was euthanized Sunday. The bear had undergone emergency surgery Thursday. But zoo director Scott Gregory commented at the time that the procedure was risky and Clyde's condition was critical. Clyde's problem stemmed from a procedure done seven years ago when ...

11 years ago
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is planning to meet with business leaders and hospital administrators in south-central Kansas. The Kansas Republican scheduled a Tuesday morning tour of the National Institute for Aviation Research, followed by remarks at the monthly meeting of the Wichita Independent Business Association. Moran travels to neighboring El Dorado in the afternoon to attend the ...

11 years ago
A new report estimates that Kansas farmers took in 328 million bushels of winter wheat this season, down 14 percent from last year. The projection in Monday's report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service is based on an average yield of 40 bushels of wheat per acre cut from 8.2 million acres. The snapshot is based on ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has narrowed Planned Parenthood's lawsuit against a new Kansas abortion law to a single requirement dealing with providers' websites. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil on Monday approved an agreement filed last week between attorneys for Planned Parenthood and the state. Planned Parenthood will drop its challenge to provisions of the law that took effect ...

11 years ago
A northeast Kansas accountant has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the construction company where he worked. The U.S. Attorney's office says 64-year-old Larry Lord, of Manhattan, must also pay about $640,000 in restitution under the sentence he received Monday. Lord worked as an accountant at Cheney Construction Inc. ...