(AP) — State corrections officials are looking for a minimum security inmate who escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility. The Kansas Department of Corrections says 43-year-old Paul D. Cohagen was discovered missing from the prison Monday evening. Cohagen is a white male with hazel eyes and brown hair. He’s 6-feet tall and weighs about 160 [...]
(AP) — A new report estimates that just 11 percent of the Kansas winter wheat is now ripe, with harvest in much of southern Kansas just days away. The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that last year by this late in the season, 97 percent of the crop had ripened. The average for this [...]
Two Semi Trucks collided in Southwest Kansas on Monday sending one to the hospital. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, “A 2013 Kenworth Semi truck driven by 61 year old Blanche May Sparks of Denver was South bound on U 83 about 10 miles South of Scott City. A 1992 Kenworth semi driven by 53 [...]
Governing Body Agenda City of WaKeeney 408 Russell Ave., WaKeeney KS 67672 Regular Meeting 6/18/13 at 7:00 PM I. Roll Call II. Approval of minutes of last meeting III. Petitions, requests, complaints, guests, etc. • Don Tilton and Teri Klitzke, Mapes & Miller, CPA’s. Presentation of the 2012 audit report • Cathy Albert, Director, [...]
Watch NASA Administrator Charles Bolden name the 2013 Astronaut Class including Hoxie native Tyler N. Hague (Nick) After an extensive year-and-a-half search, NASA has a new group of potential astronauts who will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars. Eight [...]
KansasDOT @DriveSafeKansas1hPls RT –> As of 06/10/13 there have been 117 motor vehicle fatalities in Kansas. #KSDOT #DWD #CIOT
(AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirement for new voters can still be enforced after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a similar Arizona law. Kobach says the Kansas law differs enough from Arizona’s version that the high court’s Monday decision doesn’t apply to Kansas. County election officials in [...]
An Oberlin man was sentenced Monday to more than 17 years in prison after being convicted of murder, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. Dylan R. Coryell, 25, was convicted by a Decatur County jury in March on charges of intentional second-degree murder and aggravated battery. Judge Preston Pratt today sentenced Coryell to 212 months [...]
A Topeka man has pleaded guilty to taking part in an armed robbery at a Little Caesars Pizza restaurant, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. David Pierre Wigfall, 28, Topeka, Kan., pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a robbery in which the robber brandished a firearm. In his plea, Wigfall admitted that on March 1, [...]
(AP) — A man who was abandoned in a phone booth in Kansas City, Kan., in 1972 is on a quest to identify his birth parents and why they left him. Bill Atkinson, who now lives in suburban St. Louis, was found covered in nothing but a blanket in the phone booth on June 7, [...]
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