September 2013

A former Salina man will serve decades in prison after being sentenced for his second conviction of sexually abusing a young girl.
Forty-year-old Shawn T. Vogan was sentenced Thursday to life in pris…

Wichita police say they have captured a man suspected of shooting and wounding a Butler County Sheriff's deputy earlier this week.
Wichita Police Lt. Doug Nolte said Friday morning that Jan Kilbourne…

Hanston – Marc D. Salmans, 61, died September 3, 2013 at the Hodgeman County
Health Center, Jetmore. He was born April 9, 1952 in Jetmore, the son of Junior and Maxine McKibbin Salmans. A lifetime ar…

GARDEN CITY—Three southwest Kansas community leaders will join their counterparts from Colorado and New Mexico next week in a meeting with national railroad officials to look for ways to save an Amtr…

Garden City-Artie O. Brunson, age 102, died Monday, September 2, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on May 8, 1911 in Loco, Oklahoma, the daughter of Wi…

WICHITA— Many patients need a one-time blood transfusion, but the estimated 100,000 Americans with sickle cell disease face a lifetime of them. During September, National Sickle Cell Awareness Month,…

Kansas legislators have adjourned their special session.
Lawmakers wrapped up business Wednesday in only two days. They approved a bill repairing a law allowing convicted murderers to be sentenced to…

Newly confirmed Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Caleb Stegall says the state's residents want their public servants to show more loyalty to the state and their neighbors than to a particular political …

Kansas legislators ended a special session without debating proposed changes in a law requiring new voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship when they register.

Kingman County residents will vote next month on two tax proposals that would fund a new jail and law enforcement center.