WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say two Kansas men were charged Thursday with first-degree murder and other crimes connected to the death of an 83-year-old Vermillion man. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that the murder charges stem from the Jan. 24 death of Donald E. McLaughlin at his home. The [...]
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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been found dead inside a Salina home after a standoff and fire. Salina police said in a Facebook post that the standoff started Wednesday after an officer saw a man with an arrest warrant for burglary riding a bicycle. When the officer approached, the man rode [...]
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say a man died after his motorcycle crashed into a school bus. Police spokesman Charley Davidson says 22-year-old Tyler Bins died Wednesday afternoon after being pinned under the bus. A 49-year-old man who was riding a different motorcycle with Bins was seriously injured. Davidson says the men collided with [...]
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TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has named an attorney who said he’s similar in temperament to former Chief Justice Lawton Nuss to replace Nuss as a Kansas Supreme Court justice. Lawrence attorney K.J. Wall also formerly worked for the state’s highest court overseeing special projects and research for justices in death penalty cases. The [...]
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TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has named an attorney who said he’s similar in temperament to former Chief Justice Lawton Nuss to replace Nuss as a Kansas Supreme Court justice. Lawrence attorney K.J. Wall also formerly worked for the state’s highest court overseeing special projects and research for justices in death penalty cases. The [...]
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TOPEKA — Protesters are seeking to pressure the Kansas Senate into take a vote on a bipartisan plan for expanding Medicaid. Several dozen of them chanted, laid down on the floor and blocked the Senate’s main entrance Tuesday. About 50 people protested at the Statehouse for almost three hours. Capitol police removed 23 protesters from [...]
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TOPEKA — The offices of Kansas legislative leaders would see an 11% increase in their funding under a proposal that has cleared committee. Almost all of the new dollars would go to top Republicans. The House Appropriations Committee added the money Monday before approving the Republican-controlled Legislature’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins [...]
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OVERLAND PARK — A California man has been sentenced to three years in prison for washing the ink off $1 bills in a Kansas hotel room and reprinting them to look like $100 bills. The U.S. attorney’s office says 51-year-old John Sebestyen, of Mission Viejo, California, also was ordered Monday to pay nearly $20,000 in [...]
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OVERLAND PARK — A California man has been sentenced to three years in prison for washing the ink off $1 bills in a Kansas hotel room and reprinting them to look like $100 bills. The U.S. attorney’s office says 51-year-old John Sebestyen, of Mission Viejo, California, also was ordered Monday to pay nearly $20,000 in [...]
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TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are taking steps to allow college athletes to hire agents and sign endorsement deals. Many fear that if they don’t act, then out-of-state rivals will leave the state’s most storied university athletics programs in the dust by attracting the best recruits. A bill that would bar state universities from preventing their [...]
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