August 2013

Kansas has recently joined 30 other states in enrolling students in a federally funded program aimed at raising high school graduation rates and helping students prepare for college and careers.
Educ…

A Lawrence man has riffed and thrashed his way past 16 other contestants from Europe and Japan to win the world air guitar championship.
Eric Melin is known as Mean Melin on the air guitar circuit, w…

A 71-year-old northwest Kansas woman has been charged with trespassing for entering the city animal shelter to care for dogs she felt weren't being treated properly.
Melissa Scott pleaded guilty rece…

Three people have been injured in a house fire in the Hays area.
The Hays Daily News reports the fire destroyed the two-story home Monday.
Ellis County Rural Fire Chief Dick Klaus says three people w…

Sometimes, even nerves of steel aren't enough to make a professional storm chaser to drive directly into violent weather. But some steel cladding on a vehicle can make the dangers from tornadic winds…

A 25-year-old Wichita man has pleaded guilty in the slaying of another man who was held down as his throat was slashed.
The Wichita Eagle reports Caesar K. Louis pleaded guilty Friday to second-degre…

An attorney for a Kansas man who is among the roughly 250 sex offenders confined at a state hospital because their prison terms expired and they were deemed too dangerous to go free says the law that…

A joint legislative committee is taking up a proposed measure to re-write the Kansas "Hard 50" prison sentence ahead of next week's special session.
Members of a select committee are hearing testimon…

Bobbie Lee Harvey Vogt, 84, passed away August 19, 2013 surrounded by family at Midland Care Hospice, Topeka, KS.
Bobbie was born November 23, 1928 in Port Oklahoma, the daughter of Wes and Ollilee …