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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural
Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural Pat Lyons – Lyons Twin Mansions By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University. “Hey, Pat. I’m going to a...
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Kansas farmers wary of scaled-down farm bill
(AP) — Kansas farmers remain leery of the scaled-down farm bill passed by the U.S. House as they wait to see what actually makes it into law. But the competing versions for now preserve the one thing...
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Hutch Man Waives Right To Legal Counsel In Burglary Case
A 23-year-old Hutchinson man who was just sentenced to 7-years for burglary in Barton County now wants to represent himself in a similar case here in Reno County. Lee Dean is charged with burglary,...
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Hutch Man Indicted By The Feds On Meth Distribution Charge
A 50-year-old Hutchinson man arrested in June of last year after the Reno County Drug Unit served a search warrant on his home has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on a drug distribution charge....
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2 Wichita Children Put In Protective Custody
(AP) – Wichita police say two toddlers are in protective custody after one of the children drank a small amount of bleach at a squalid home. Lt. Doug Nolte told The Wichita Eagle that emergency...
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Man Pleads In Shooting Of Accomplice In Burglary
(AP) – A Wichita man avoided a second trial by reaching a plea agreement in the shooting death of his accomplice during a home robbery. Thirty-two-year-old Terrell Cole pleaded guilty last week to...
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Junction City Officials Say Someone Is Stealing Water
(AP) – Junction City officials and police are on the hunt for people who are stealing some of the city’s water. The city can’t account for about 30 percent of its water usage and has been told by the...
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Prosecutor Says Kansas Man Increased Explosives
By ROXANA HEGEMAN ~ Associated Press A prosecutor told jurors in his opening statement that a Kansas man added chemicals to gunpowder to increase the explosive power of grenades he was making. The...
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Kansas colonoscopy patients urged to get blood tests
(AP) — A southeast Kansas hospital is asking 244 patients who received colonoscopies since early January to get tested for communicable diseases because its equipment wasn’t properly cleaned and...
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House GOP seeks delay in health care provisions
(AP) — House Republicans, politically emboldened by President Barack Obama’s delay of a key requirement of his health care law, are taking another run at scrapping his signature domestic policy. The...
View ArticleWestern Kansas banker charged with embezzlement
AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former branch manager of Landmark National Bank in Garden City has been charged with embezzling more than $99,999 from the bank. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a...
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Kansas judge finds offender registry ‘punitive’
AP) — A judge has ordered the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to remove a man’s name from the state’s offender registry for sex, drug and violent crimes. Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks ruled...
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Attempted Murder Suspects Preliminary Hearing Scheduled Again For Thursday
The preliminary hearing for the suspect in the shooting of Hutchinson area man back on January 30, is scheduled once again for Thursday. The hearing in the case had been continued earlier when someone...
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Here Is Your 7-Day Forecast For Hutchinson And Reno County
Temperatures will continue to slowly warm each day as the weekend approaches across central and southeast Kansas. ———- Here Is Your 7-Day Forecast For Hutchinson And Reno County Thursday: Mostly...
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Moran on House Passage of bills to delay ACA
Today, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) released the following statement on the passage of the U.S. House of Representatives bills to delay the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer and individual...
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Senators ready to restore lower college loan rates
(AP) — Senators are ready to offer students a better deal on their loans this fall, but future classes could see higher interest rates. The Senate could vote as early as Thursday on a bipartisan...
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70 foreign military officers to visit state capital
(AP) — Seventy foreign military officers are planning to tour the Kansas Statehouse as part of a program about state government and the state’s court system. The officers scheduled to visit Topeka on...
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Key DC panel looking at Eisenhower Memorial
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is set to review architect Frank Gehry’s design for a planned national memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington. The commission overseeing civic...
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NW Kansas Farmer Harvests the 25 Billionth Bushel of Wheat
On July 9, at Solomon Creek Farms near Colby, the 25th billionth bushel of wheat in the past 100 years of Kansas farming was harvested. Mike Brown, co-owner of Solomon Creek Farms, caught the grain in...
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Kansas House chairman running for insurance post
(AP) — The longtime chairman of the Kansas House Insurance Committee is seeking the Republican nomination for insurance commissioner. Rep. Clark Shultz of McPherson said Thursday he’s thought about...
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