HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A Nebraska woman has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for a November 2017 head-on crash in northeastern Kansas that killed four members of a Sabetha family who were returning home from a state championship football game. 49-year-old Maria Perez Marquez, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced Friday to […]
Regents mull boosting homegrown enrollment at Kansas schools
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The percentage of Kansas high school graduates who attend state universities has fallen in recent years, and the schools are considering how to stop that decline and make up lost revenue. In 2010, 55% of Kansas high school graduates enrolled at a state higher education institution, but by 2017 — the […]
Officer in critical condition after shot while transporting prisoner
DAVIESS COUNTY, Mo. —The Daviess County prosecuting attorney has charged 38-year-old James Aaron Griffin in Friday’s shooting of a NW Missouri police officer with Assault First Degree; Armed Criminal Action and Unlawful Use Of A Weapon, according to Daviess County Emergency Management and the Missouri State Highway Patrol. As of 3 p.m. Saturday, Daviess County […]
Migrants complain of poor conditions at US holding centers
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment in El Paso being forced to sleep on the bare ground during dust storms. The Border Network for Human Rights issued a report […]
Topeka gears up after flooding moves Kicker Country Stampede
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka is gearing up for a major music festival that had to be moved there because of flooding. The 24th annual Kicker Country Stampede will be held from June 20-22 at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka. It typically is held at Manhattan’s Tuttle Creek State Park, but water levels have been […]
Employee hospitalized after leg trapped by auger at Kan. grain elevator
COWLEY COUNTY — One person was injured in a grain elevator accident Friday in Cowley County. Just before 3:30p.m. Winfield Fire/EMS, Cowley County Sheriff’s Department, and the Kansas Highway Patrol were dispatched to for an industrial accident at the Valley Coop Kellogg Branch located at 16101 23rd Road, Winfield, according to Winfield Fire Chief Chad […]
KDADS to request HCBS waiver extension, conduct additional stakeholder engagement
KDADS TOPEKA – The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) is submitting a request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend its current Intellectual/Developmental Disability (I/DD) waiver, set to renew July 1, 2019, in order to allow additional time for discussions with stakeholders. It is anticipated the Frail […]
This might be the last summer Kan. swimmers enjoy this enormous pool
By CORINNE BOYER Every summer since 1922, locals and tourists have flocked to Garden City’s Big Pool. Once promoted as “the world’s largest outdoor free concrete municipal swimming pool,” it holds around 2 million gallons of water. “Holds” might now be an overstatement. The Big Pool leaks. A lot. Around 200,000 gallons of water from the pool seep into […]
First Soviet hijacking triggers insights into Cold War boundaries
KU NEWS SERVICE LAWRENCE — There was a time when hijacking a plane was considered heroic. Glamorous, even. “The idea that hijacking was romanticized is hard to fathom in our post-9/11 mentality,” said Erik Scott, associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. But that was the case 50 years ago when air safety […]
Kan. man sentenced for killing after doughnut shop robbery
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 46 years and two months in prison for breaking into a Topeka home with three other people and killing a man after they robbed a doughnut shop. Erion Kirtdoll was sentenced Thursday for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the death of Tyrone Baggett. […]
Kansas governor plans to end economic border war in KC area
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says she plans to issue an executive order to end a longstanding economic border war between her state and Missouri in the Kansas City area. Kelly told reporters Friday that her executive order will mirror a new Missouri law that prevents incentives from being used to lure businesses across the border […]
Feds seeks forfeiture of $470K in cash seized in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of $470,000 in suspected drug money that was seized earlier this year during three Kansas traffic stops. That one stop alone yielded $250,000 in cash. A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper found that money in vacuum-sealed plastic bags and a duffel bag after stopping a rented […]
Another Kansas house fire blamed on discarded cigarette
SEDGWICK COUNTY — For the second time this week, fire officials in Kansas say discarded smoking materials blamed for a residential fire. Just after 6a.m. Thursday, fire crews responded to 12351 East Willlowgreen Court in Wichita, according to Captain Jose Ocadiz. As crews arrived on the scene, the found heavy smoke and fire from the […]