11 years ago
More Kansas counties are signing up to participate in a 2011 state program aimed at luring new residents to rural counties with declining populations. Grant and Gray counties in southwest Kansas have recently voted to participate in a student loan program where new graduates can receive assistance in retiring college debt. The two counties were among ...

11 years ago
Kansas authorities say they'll appeal a state district court's decision ordering them to remove a child molester's name from the offender registry. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Thursday he will fight for the integrity of the state's offender registry law. He says his office will also appeal a ruling that allowed the plaintiff anonymity. Schmidt ...

11 years ago
A Salina home away from home is celebrating 20 years of helping families who have ill loved ones. The Rebecca A. Morrison, 513 S. Eighth Street, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by hosting an Open House Celebration this Friday, July 19th, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the backyard. Refreshments, live music, and and tours ...

11 years ago
Arkansas City police say an Oklahoma man died while working inside a cattle pen at Creekstone Farms. Emergency crews who responded to a call of a man hurt by a cow early Thursday found 57-year-old Richard Gates of Blackwell, Okla., unresponsive in the cattle pen. He died later at South Central Regional Medical Center. Police say Gates ...

11 years ago
Three southwest Kansas women are facing federal charges accusing them of embezzling more than $100,000 from a bank where they worked and staging a robbery to cover it up. A fourth woman is accused of embezzling money with two of the others for more than two years after the July 24, 2010, staged robbery at ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating an alleged burglary and theft. Police say that on Wednesday of this week, sometime between 10 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon, various electronic items were stolen from a home at 1210 N 10th Street. Missing items include a laptop computer, a video game system and game, a broadband mobile ...

11 years ago
A woman is seriously hurt when her husband accidentally backs over her. Salina Police say that a 91-year-old man was backing out of his driveway Thursday morning at 907 E Jewell. He did not see his 64-year-old wife, who had walked behind the car. The woman was hit, and seriously injured. The driver immediately transported his wife ...

11 years ago
Seventy foreign military officers are planning to tour the Kansas Statehouse as part of a program about state government and the state's court system. The officers scheduled to visit Topeka on Thursday are students at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Students at the 119-year-old college frequently become high-ranking military ...

11 years ago
A judge has ruled that former cadets who sued St. John's Military School didn't violate a protective order when their attorney disclosed in a filing that 339 students had complained of being beaten, hazed, harassed or abused over the past five years. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth Gale ruled Wednesday that the confidential list was properly filed ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee's chairman says he hopes to have a hearing this fall on Gov. Sam Brownback's next nominee to the state Court of Appeals. Chairman Jeff King said Wednesday he's hoping to have a full-day meeting in October or November. He says senators will take the job of vetting the nominee seriously. Brownback will ...

11 years ago
The U.S. House-approved farm bill contains a provision that environmentalists say would ease rules for building a coal-burning power plant in southwest Kansas. Environmentalists have won federal court decisions requiring an environmental review before Hays-based Sunflower Electric Power Corp. can build a $2.8 billion, 895-megawatt plant near Holcomb. Bill Griffith, energy chair of the Kansas chapter of ...