11 years ago
Federal prosecutors want a celebrity hunter from Tennessee to spend three months in jail for violating probation in a Kansas case. William "Spook" Spann is scheduled to appear at a hearing in federal court Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors are seeking to have his probation revoked in a 2007 case in which he pleaded guilty to transporting unlawfully ...

11 years ago
A Great Bend animal shelter is over capacity after 50 dogs were removed from a woman's home. The Golden Belt Humane Society coordinated the roundup of the animals from a trailer home Tuesday on the southeast side of Great Bend. A concerned citizen notified People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which called the local shelter. Golden ...

11 years ago
A flight demonstration of various unmanned aircraft systems used to improve the care of crops, livestock and pastures is scheduled for next week in central Kansas. Kansas State University is hosting the event Tuesday in Lindsborg, where U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran will be on hand to discuss economic growth potential of unmanned aircraft systems in the ...

11 years ago
Two people are transported to the hospital following a crash along Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a semi pulling a trailer was traveling west. Its trailer swung off the edge of the road, kicking up dust and reducing visibility. A car following the semi slowed down and was rear ended ...

11 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas winter wheat harvest is slowly moving closer to the Nebraska border. The trade group Kansas Wheat reported Wednesday that yields are mixed across Kansas as more grain is harvested. In Bucklin, the harvest has reached the 60 percent mark with the Offerle Co-op saying it expects to take in about one ...

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“It’ll be probably one of the biggest harvest’s we’ve ever seen,” Tom King a merchandiser for the Scoular grain elevators said. King has worked for 12 years at Scoular and has been around grain elevators his whole life. According to King, the weather has been perfect for harvesting, especially after the long drought that has been ...

11 years ago
If only he'd been riding in the street, a bicyclist who Pittsburg police say had a meth lab in his backpack might have gone unnoticed. But the 29-year-old man from Nevada, Mo., caught the eye of an officer in the southeast Kansas community Tuesday morning because he was riding on a sidewalk. The officer tried to make ...

11 years ago
The commission that regulates utilities in Kansas has hired a top-level state Department of Agriculture official as its new executive director. The Kansas Corporation Commission announced Wednesday that Kim Christiansen will supervise its staff of more than 200 employees. It did not say exactly when she would begin working at the KCC full time. She will replace ...

11 years ago
Attorney General Derek Schmidt says counties and cities that exempt themselves from a new law on concealed weapons need to change any "No Guns" signs on public buildings. The law taking effect Monday allows people with concealed-carry permits to bring their guns into public buildings that don't have adequate security, such as screening. But many cities ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of some construction equipment from a residential area. Police say Smoky Hills Heavy Contractors of Salina contacted police after someone removed a 125-pound bit that is used in a Ditch Witch trencher from a job site. Officers say the bit was left on a pallet in the 700 block of Marvin. ...

11 years ago
Parts of the fossil collection at the Sternberg Museum in Hays are coming alive on computer screens. The museum and the Forsyth Laboratory at Fort Hays State are collaborating on a project to digitize the fossil collection using 3-D scanning. Sternberg director Reese Barrick says the fossils are photographed and then some will be scanned to produce ...