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 ...

12 years ago
Attorneys seeking a settlement over a lawsuit challenging the state's school finance system say two days of talks have been unsuccessful. The parties filed a status report Wednesday with the Kansas Supreme Court. Attorneys representing the state and plaintiff school districts and parents met for mediation Monday and Tuesday. A three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court ...

12 years ago
Federal prosecutors have charged three people with a brazen freight trucking scheme that spanned the country. An indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Wichita alleges the three men tried in 2011 to steal a trailer load of packaged beef worth $82,700 from the Tyson plant at Holcomb. Prosecutors say they posed as a freight hauler ...

12 years ago
Salina Police locate a car as the search for a missing woman continues. Lt. Scott Siemsen says 27-year-old Kristin Tyler has not been seen or heard from since last Thursday, her car was found yesterday at about 3:45pm. "We did locate her vehicle," he said. "It was parked abandoned in the apartment complex at 2130 E. Crawford." Police ...

12 years ago
Hundreds of classified employees of Kansas State University are discussing whether to no longer be civil service employees. The employees are scheduled to meet this week to discuss the move, which would remove them from the control of the Legislature. A vote would not come until November. Similar committees of classified employees have formed at Wichita State ...