OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Overland Park police say a man is hospitalized after a friend allegedly stabbed him with a sword. Police spokesman Gary Mason says the victim, a man in his mid-30s, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed early Wednesday in Overland Park. Mason says the two friends were messing around [...]
Statewide Net Farm Income Averaged $151,127; Varied Widely by Region MANHATTAN, Kan. – Judicious use of risk management tools and other key management decisions saved the day for many Kansas farmers last year even as the state endured its worst drought in decades, according to Kansas Farm Management Association program director, Kevin Herbel. “Without a [...]
(AP) — The company that insures most of Kansas’ school districts says it won’t provide coverage for districts that allow armed employees. EMC Insurance Companies has told its agents around the state not to offer policies to school districts that allow concealed weapons under a law that takes effect July 1. EMC will not renew [...]
(AP) — A Kansas man who was a fugitive for nearly two years was sentenced to more than four years in prison for a Wichita homicide. Thirty-two-year-old Donald L. Jackson was sentenced Monday to four years and five months in prison for killing 44-year-old Leroy Fields in May 2009. Police say Fields died after being [...]
Today, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) released the following statement about his efforts as a member of the Senate Banking Committee to mitigate harms of the Dodd-Frank Act on American community banks On Thursday, June 13, 2013, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the health of community banks. The hearing featured testimony from [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
Watch NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Announce the new Astronaut Class including Tyler N. Hague (Nick) of Hoxie, Kansas. 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. [...]
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(AP) — A northwest Kansas man convicted of shooting another man and wounding a woman as the couple slept will go to prison for more than 17 years. Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office says 25-year-old Dylan Coryell, of Oberlin, was sentenced Monday in Decatur County District Court. Judge Preston Pratt gave Coryell slightly more than [...]