11 years ago
Kansas residents may now carry switchblades, daggers and other types of knives in most public places without fear of arrest. A new law that took effect July 1 lifted the state's ban on several kinds of bladed instruments. Gov. Sam Brownback signed the measure shortly after legislators approved it in April. The Topeka Capital Journal reports the ...

11 years ago
Salina South's Cody Busby was playing for more than just the West team during Saturday night's Shrine Bowl football game. He was also playing for a Salina child who is battling a brain tumor. If you watched the game, and thought Busby's helmet looked a little different, you were right. He had a special tribute to Keaton ...

11 years ago
A Wichita police officer has rescued a 2-year-old boy from a fast-flowing Wichita creek. Sgt. Bruce Watts says the boy was walking with his grandfather Friday when he slipped down a muddy hill and fell into Gypsum Creek. The boy then became caught on a rock, face down in the 2½- to 3-foot water. With the ...

11 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University, after completing final paperwork, is excited to announce their plans for a new sports complex. This announcement comes on the heels of Kansas Wesleyan University's hiring of Director of Athletics, Mike Hermann, and the new leadership of President Matt Thompson, who began in April. Excitement is building for this project, five years ...

11 years ago
A former Wichita cheer coach has been ordered to spend at least 42 years in prison for having sexual relations with four young girls. Twenty-nine-year-old Timothy Wells-Lee was convicted in April on 10 counts involving girls age 12 to 14 whom he coached at Wichita cheer academies between 2006 and 2008. KWCH-TV reports Wells-Lee was sentenced Friday ...

11 years ago
This is not your old man's marijuana. Authorities say a burgeoning domestic pot industry has transformed the potency of the weed now hitting the streets. In the past, law enforcement says they mostly seized compressed marijuana bricks. Now they are mostly intercepting medical-grade, domestic marijuana. A Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area study found busts involving Colorado ...

11 years ago
Governor Sam Brownback has called a special session of the Kansas Legislature for Sept. 3 to rewrite the state's "Hard 50" criminal sentencing law. Brownback made the announcement two days after Attorney General Derek Schmidt requested a special session. Schmidt's request had bipartisan support from prosecutors and legislators. The law allows judges to sentence some convicted murderers ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University has received a $13.7 million grant to help increase food supplies in Africa. The five-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development will be used to establish the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet. Both crops are important in dry regions of Africa. Associate agriculture economics professor ...

11 years ago
The 2013 Leadsled Spectacular Car Show is underway at Oakdale Park in Salina. David and Nancy Payne of Kansas City, MO were on hand Friday to catch the opening act of the 33rd annual KKOA event that runs through Sunday afternoon. As they took a peek at a black, 1956 Chevy Belaire from Texas, they commented on ...

11 years ago
The body of a Lyndon man who had not been seen since July 15 has been found. The Osage County Sheriff says in a news release that the body of 67-year-old Raleigh Heskett was found Thursday inside his van. The vehicle was parked in Marion County, about 90 miles southwest of Lyndon. An autopsy will be performed ...

11 years ago
Over 300 gallons of fuel is siphoned from two area trucks. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of 360 gallons of diesel fuel from two semi trucks that were parked on a lot at 1265 W. Diamond Drive. Gary Johnson Trucking, told deputies that 260-gallons of fuel worth $1006 was siphoned off an '85 ...