WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Frontier Airlines has announced plans to halt its flights between Wichita and Denver. The Wichita Eagle reports that Frontier’s two daily flights from Wichita will end on Nov. 16. Frontier spokeswoman Lindsey Carpenter says the flights have been performing below average. Carpenter says the airline will contact travelers who have booked flights after Nov. 15, and offer them a flight on another airline or a refund. The move will leave United Airlines as the only airline flying from Wichita through Denver to western destinations. Allegiant operates flights from Wichita to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix-Mesa.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Residents wanting to vote in the upcoming Kansas primary election have until Tuesday to register. Voters statewide will be deciding primaries in numerous Republican and Democratic races for the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate, as well as the Democratic primaries for two of the state’s four U.S. House seats. Advanced voting for the Aug. 7 primary begins Wednesday and closes at noon Aug. 6. Eligible Kansas residents who aren’t registered to vote can register for the November general election between Aug. 8 and Oct. 16.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is scheduled to tour areas of the state hit hard by drought. The governor’s office says Brownback will be stopping in Saline County on Tuesday and then will be in Neosho and Labette counties on Wednesday. Brownback will tour northwest Kansas next week. Brownback will be joined by Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Office, and Dale Rodman, state agriculture director. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared 82 counties in Kansas federal disaster areas because of the ongoing dry conditions.
A Fort Riley Soldier has died in Afghanistan. Sgt. Erik May, 26, was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead at a medical facility in eastern Afghanistan on July 14. The cause of death is under investigation. May was an infantryman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division which is currently deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. This was May’s second combat deployment with the ‘Dragon’ Brigade. He deployed to Iraq with the brigade headquarters in 2009. An Independence, Kan. native, May joined the Army in September 2007. He was assigned to Fort…
An August 10th hearing is set in a case involving a former executive of NanoScale in Manhattan. The change of plea hearing for Aaron Madison is planned for August 10th before District Judge Richard Rogers. Madison was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Nanoscale. A criminal information was filed last month in federal court in Wichita, charging Madison with wire fraud. Allegations are that Madison manipulated contract costs and falsified invoices to meet payroll between 2009 and 2011.
One Kansas State University geologist becomes a “rock” star as he tests aquifer rocks as containers to permanently trap carbon dioxide. Associate Professor for the Department of Geology at Kansas State University, Saugata Datta has been testing the capability of injecting carbon dioxide into porous rocks within the Arbuckle Aquifer here in Kansas and seeing if it is truly possiblity to trap the carbon dioxide. Datta says “this is an important study because it could be beneficial to manufacturing and production industries who currently monitor carbon dioxide production levels due to regulations”. Beginning January of 2013, the project will be in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Casper Wells homered and drove in a career-high five runs, all of them against Jonathan Sanchez, and the Seattle Mariners beat up the Kansas City Royals and their beleaguered starter in a 9-4 victory Monday night. Justin Smoak also had a two-run homer off Sanchez (1-6), pulled after allowing a season-high seven runs in a season-low 1 1/3 innings. The left-hander who once threw a no-hitter for San Francisco gave up seven hits and a walk before he was yanked to a chorus of boos. Jason Vargas (9-7) took advantage of the rare output from…
Ray Rice and Matt Forte got what they wanted Monday: long-term contracts that sometimes elude NFL running backs. Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe did not sign a long term deal, instead agreeing to a one-year tender worth $9.4 million. The two sides cannot agree to a new deal until after the season, and the Chiefs would have to franchise him again to avoid him becoming an unrestricted free agent. Neither Rice nor Forte was enamored of playing under the franchise tag tender in 2012, and negotiations went down to the wire. Then Rice scored big with the Baltimore Ravens, getting…
Lightning storms struck Tucson, Arizona on Monday night. Weekend storms knocked out power to thousands in the area.
Authorities began draining an Iowa lake Monday in the search for two missing girls whose bicycles were found nearby, but they suspended a massive sweep of the area over the weekend because the effort failed to produce significant leads.