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Kansas is teaming up with other states as part an effort to get drivers along historic Route 66 to wear their seat belts. The crackdown begins Friday and will last 24 hours. The effort started in 2010 with a handful of law enforcement agencies in central Oklahoma. It has now expanded to include highway patrol troopers, state ...

12 years ago
Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he's considering an appeal of a federal court order requiring Kansas to cover $389,000 worth of attorneys' fees and expenses for parties in a lawsuit over political redistricting. Kobach said Thursday that it's "ridiculous" that taxpayers would have to foot such a bill. The lawsuit stemmed from the Legislature's impasse last ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has told U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a new Kansas gun law aimed at reining in the federal government has broad support in the state. Brownback sent a letter Thursday to Holder defending the law, which took effect last week. He said Kansans hold dear their right to bear arms. It declares that the federal ...

12 years ago
The Kansas attorney general's office is working to keep up with the fast pace of applications for concealed-carry permits. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office received nearly 3,500 applications during April. Schmidt's office said Thursday that's the third-highest month since the state's licensing program began in 2007. Schmidt's staff also received a record ...

12 years ago
Participants in the Kansas wheat quality tour have forecast the state will harvest 313 million bushels despite drought and freezes. The announcement Thursday at the Kansas City Board of Trade pegged average yields at slightly above 41 bushels per acre. The estimates are based on about 570 stops at wheat fields across the state during a ...

12 years ago
A phone scam costs a Salina woman over $2,400. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, an 87-year-old woman thought she was helping a grandson when she used Western Union to send $2,436 to a thief on Tuesday. Police say an unknown suspect pretended to be her grandson and asked for her financial help after telling her about a ...

12 years ago
Police are investigating a theft by deception case that originated on Craigslist. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone created a bogus 'house for rent' ad on Craigslist, for a home that is currently listed for sale in south Salina. Police say 19-year-old Tremayne Jackson, 18-year-old Justin Natal and 20-year-old Cameron Curry all of Salina, contacted the thief ...

12 years ago
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has told Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback that a new state law attempting to block federal regulation of some guns is unconstitutional. The U.S. attorney's office for Kansas on Thursday released a copy of a letter to Brownback from Holder last week, sent the day after the new state law took effect. The ...

12 years ago
Snow and strong winds combined to close Interstate 70 in western Kansas from Goodland to Burlington, Colo., overnight. The Kansas Department of Transportation says driving conditions combined with road construction projects caused slide-offs and some accidents Wednesday evening. Other roads in northwest Kansas were snowpacked and icy as a storm system that dropped several inches of snow ...

12 years ago
The Kansas attorney general says Kansas residents turned in a record five tons of unused medications in the National Drug Take-Back Day. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says law enforcement officials collected about 10,000 pounds of medications at 101 locations across the state during the event Saturday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the event was sponsored nationwide by ...

12 years ago
The U.S. attorney's office for Kansas says a federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment against a Kansas physician accused of unlawfully distributing prescription drugs. Michael Schuster of Manhattan was indicted Wednesday on one count each of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances, drug distribution, unlawfully distributing drugs to a person under 21 years old ...