11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A committee in the Kansas Legislature is trying to prevent the sale of a parking lot for government workers near the Statehouse. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Legislature's Joint Committee on State Building Construction voted Thursday to ask the Department of Administration to reject all bids for the lot. The highest bid ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas House committee has approved a proposal to spend $1.2 million to fund a new research center for potential medical cures with adult stem cells. The Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to direct House budget negotiators to push for the spending. Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill last month creating the new center ...

11 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Governor Sam Brownback's administration has overcome fresh resistance from the Kansas Legislature to authorizing an additional $202 million in bonds for a national biodefense lab. The House Appropriations Committee Thursday initially postponed a decision to the governor's proposal for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility at Kansas State University. But after a ...

11 years ago
Saline County authorities searching for a missing mother of four located a body off Interstate 135 in Salina Thursday afternoon. The sheriff's department would not say Thursday whether the body was that of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler. But KSN television was interviewing Tyler's mother when officers called her to tell her that Kristin's body had been found. The ...

11 years ago
Goveronr Sam Brownback continues to face resistance from Kansas legislators to authorizing another $202 million in bonds for a new national biosecurity lab. The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday postponed a decision on the governor's proposal for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas State University. The governor says the additional bonds will complete the financing ...

11 years ago
For approximately the past 13 months, the Geary County Attorney’s Office, Junction City Police Department, Geary County Sheriff’s Office, Riley County Police Department, Grandview Plaza Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation have conducted a complex investigation involving the conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The investigation involved the use of undercover officers/agents, confidential informants, ...

11 years ago
Authorities in eastern Kansas say they have arrested a 27-year-old man in the deaths of three people at a rural farm home. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards says the 18-month-old daughter of Kaylie Bailey, one of the three found dead at the farm in Ottawa earlier this week, is also "presumed dead." Richards said Thursday that Kyle ...

11 years ago
Police arrest a "person of interest" in connection with the disappearance of a Salina woman. Officers from the Salina Police Department's Special Response Team, the Abilene Police Department, and the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office arrested 24-year-old Joel M. Heil at a motel in Abilene Wednesday evening at 5:20pm. Police say that Heil is a "person of interest" ...

11 years ago
Interim Kansas Securities Commissioner Josh Ney along with Governor Sam Brownback awarded three students from Salina South High School, along with their teacher, with iPad minis for their winning video submission in the 2nd Annual Kansas Financial Scholars Program Video Contest. State legislators from the Salina area that were present were Senator Tom Arpke, Representative ...

11 years ago
A pilot crop dusting in Rice County walks away from a crash landing on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a crop duster airplane was flying east, spreading chemical. The aircraft contacted the ground while spreading the chemical, causing the plane to crash land. The pilot, 54-year-old Edward Smith from LeCompton, was not hurt. The incident ...

11 years ago
Top Republicans in the Kansas Legislature had dreamed of ending its annual session in 80 days, a show of efficiency that would have trimmed 10 days off the normal but often-violated schedule. But Senate President Susan Wagle said Wednesday that it's unlikely lawmakers can meet the goal because of an impasse over tax cuts. The Wichita Republican ...