TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Navy veteran seeking to get five of his children back from state custody in Kansas says his use of medical marijuana to treat PTSD not the family’s past scrapes with the law prompted the state’s action. The case originated in Riley County. Raymond Schwab has campaigned on the Statehouse steps to
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BOSTON (AP) A federal judge has rejected a plea agreement that called for a five- to seven-year prison sentence for an 80-year-old man who ran a multistate marijuana-dealing operation with a Junction City connection. Marshall Dion was scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. But the hearing was canceled after Judge
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BOSTON (AP) An 80-year-old man who admitted running a sprawling multistate marijuana-dealing operation faces sentencing this week. Marshall Dion pleaded guilty to several charges under a plea agreement with prosecutors. A federal judge postponed Dion’s sentencing scheduled for last month. She asked prosecutors and Dion’s lawyers to submit written arguments on why the proposed sentence
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ALBQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A Wamego couple who recently lost a son to a California hiking accident says their son’s ashes were stolen from a New Mexico motel parking lot. Steven and Kathy Hunt reported the theft on Monday. Authorities say 32-year-old Kyle Hunt was killed in a hiking accident two weeks ago. The couple says
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TOPEKA — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has cut higher education spending by $17 million in response to a shortfall in tax collections for February. Brownback announced Tuesday that he ordered a 3 percent cut in the higher education system’s allocation of state tax dollars under this fiscal year’s budget. The Board of Regents and state universities will
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A group that publishes the Emporia newspaper once edited by late journalism icon William Allen White has bought two family-owned newspapers and a weekly in Kansas. John Montgomery says he plans to retire and has sold the Junction City Daily Union, Abilene Reflector-Chronicle and the weekly Wamego Smoke Signal to Chris
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A fourth person has been charged in the 2014 kidnapping and killing of a woman on the Fort Riley military base. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a news release Tuesday that 26-year-old Shantrell Woody is charged with one count of kidnapping resulting in death. The Associated Press left a phone message
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TOPEKA — A proposal to build a new veterinary laboratory at Kansas State University is one step closer to reality. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university’s proposal for a Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with an estimated cost of $43.2 million. The project still must be approved the Kansas Legislature. The
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TOPEKA — The chairman of the Kansas House education committee says his panel won’t vote on a school consolidation measure. Rep. Ron Highland, R-Wamego, told The Topeka Capital-Journal Saturday he doesn’t intend to move forward this year with a House measure introduced by Rep. John Bradford, a Lansing Republican. The measure would pare down the
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A nearly 400-year-old collection of William Shakespeare’s plays is making a stop in Manhattan. An exhibition featuring a “First Folio” of the Bard’s plays goes on display Thursday at Kansas State University. The exhibit last through the end of the month. The folio was assembled by two of Shakespeare’s actors in 1623 and is an
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