11 years ago
A Kansas man who struck up a pen-pal relationship with Charles Manson has become a source for a new book about the cult killer. Bob George's correspondence with Manson began back in 1997. At the time, George was a teacher at Dodge City High School, looking for a way to bring to life for his ...

11 years ago
Lawrence school district officials say they are concerned about the educational success of students enrolled in the city's two virtual schools. About 1,500 of the district's students work from home through the two charter schools, which have nearly doubled enrollment in five years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports state assessment data show half of the students tested at ...

11 years ago
Early this morning, while it's residents were still asleep, a burglary occurred at a home on the 1100 block of Republic Circle. Colby Lemons, 25, a resident of the home, heard noises coming from his kitchen. Lemons got out of bed and turned on the lights to find a pantry door damaged and a backpack, not ...

11 years ago
After being moved  into a nursing home, Shirley Hopkins' son has been checking up on her house on the 800 block of Ellsworth. There had been no problems with the residence since Shirley left it, until last Friday. Shirley's son went to go check on her home like he usually did, but this time he noticed ...

11 years ago
The Atchison County Sheriff's Office says investigators have found the owner of an alligator that was released into a county lake. Investigators say Waylon Saxton was unlikely to face charges after his alligator, named Cletus, was discovered shot and wounded in the lake after he disappeared three weeks ago. Deputies say Saxton told them his ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says an 8-year-old girl died when an all-terrain vehicle she was riding on crashed in Republic County. The patrol says Mary H. Horner, of Belleville, died Saturday night when the all-terrain vehicle crashed on a farm field access road a few miles northwest of Scandia. The ATV was being driven by ...

11 years ago
A car and a semi collide head-on in a crash on Interstate 70 in a construction zone in Dickinson County late Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a semi was headed west in the construction zone east of Abilene. A car was going the wrong way, headed east in the westbound lane. The vehicles collided ...

11 years ago
Summer vacation is nearly over for most area students. In preparation of the new school year, school zone lights in Salina were activated last week. Salina USD 305 teachers returned to the classroom on Thursday. The annual Saline County Back to School Fair, where nearly 2,000 backpacks full of school supplies were distributed, was Friday. Salina USD ...

11 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has been appointed to a national committee focused on combating human trafficking. Schmidt's office says he's the first Kansan to serve on the Human Trafficking Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General. The appointment comes in the same year that Kansas legislators voted to strengthen the state's anti-trafficking law. Schmidt has established ...

11 years ago
A 42-year-old University of Kansas building that formerly housed a small, experimental nuclear reactor has been reduced to rubble. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Burt Hall was demolished to help clear space on campus for expansion of the School of Engineering complex. The nuclear reactor was removed from Burt Hall in the early 1990s. But the demolition ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan.  - Bit by bit, panel by panel, the new copper skin of the roof and dome of the Kansas Statehouse is beginning to emerge from behind a beehive of construction equipment. The task of replacing the worn copper on the building is one of the final major pieces of a $332 million renovation project ...