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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

12 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Three federal judges have ordered Kansas to cover $389,000 worth of attorneys' fees and expenses for parties involved in a lawsuit last year over political redistricting. The three judge panel ruled Tuesday that 15 people involved in the lawsuit were entitled to have at least some attorneys' fees and expenses covered. The Legislature ...

12 years ago
For the first time in school history St. John's Military School completes its annual inspection with a perfect score. According to the school, the 125th Corps of Cadets completed its annual formal inspection on Monday of this week with a perfect score of 1,000 points. It was the first perfect score in the school's history. The annual ...

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Two more people on the April list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The April list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line back on April 6th. Since then, six have been arrested. The latest arrests include Jordan Hamilton and Anthony Ostberg. They were wanted for crimes that include burglary and felony theft. Since the Most Wanted program began ...

12 years ago
A TV captioning service has apologized for misidentifying "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on a Texas news broadcast. Lawrence based Caption Solutions says it and its captioner "deeply regret" the mistake. Company president Kala J. Patterson says in a statement issued Tuesday they "sincerely apologize for this error." The ...