8 years ago
A Topeka-area community health system is moving forward with a bid to acquire a financially troubled rival hospital. Stormont Vail Health submitted a letter of intent Friday saying it wants to acquire the 378-bed St. Francis Health hospital. It previously had expressed interest in an acquisition. St. Francis is owned by Denver-based SCL Health. SCL has said ...

8 years ago
The maternal grandmother of a 7-year-old Kansas boy whose remains were found in a pigsty says she has seen videos that detail gruesome abuse the boy suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother. Judy Conway, of Emporia, says the videos came from more than 30 security cameras placed throughout the home in Kansas City, ...

8 years ago
Three western Kansas men accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in Garden City are asking for a delay in their federal trial. Attorneys for Curtis Wayne Allen, Patrick Eugene Stein and Gavin Wayne Wright jointly filed the motion Friday. Federal prosecutors joined in the request. The Hutchinson News reports  U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren did not ...

8 years ago
AT&T says it will withdraw from a Kansas program that subsidizes landline telephone service for low-income residents. The Lawrence Journal-World reports  most AT&T customers who participate in the Kansas Lifeline Service Program will no longer receive the subsidies after May 31. However, the company will offer the discounts in some, mostly rural areas that the Federal ...

8 years ago
The western half of the state is digging out following a major snow storm. Western Kansas was under winter storm and blizzard warnings for much of the weekend as some areas west of Dodge City and Liberal received more than 14 inches of snow. Interstate-70 west of Salina and several state and U.S. highways in the western ...

8 years ago
As one Salina restaurant closes its doors and prepares to reopen in a new location, another is poised to move into the location that was vacated. Earlier in April Pancho's Mexican Food, which was located at 2300 Planet Avenue in Salina, closed its doors. At the time ownership indicated that it was looking to relocate. Earlier ...

8 years ago
Congressman Roger Marshall will begin his May Listening Tour on Wednesday, May 9. Constituents are encouraged to attend and ask questions. This will make 25 listening tour stops this year, separate from other public events attended. "I'm looking forward to returning to complete more Listening Tour stops in May," Congressman Marshall said. "We have covered a lot of ...

8 years ago
Kansas lawmakers return to Topeka facing pressing deadlines to find a budget fix and write a new law for funding public schools. The Republican-controlled Legislature ends its annual spring break Monday with the year's biggest issues far from resolved. Kansas faces projected budget shortfalls totaling $889 million through June 2019, and legislators expect to increase taxes. They've focused ...

8 years ago
Indivisible Salina has invited the Kansas congressional delegation, including Rep. Roger Marshall, Sen. Jerry Moran, and Sen. Pat Roberts, to a "People’s Town Hall".   This event, held during their Congressional District Work Period, will afford the Senators and Representative an opportunity to hear from their citizen constituents at the region’s most central location. The event is ...

8 years ago
The calendar indicates we are in the middle of spring, but you won't know it this weekend across Central Kansas. A strong low pressure moving into the plains this will bring much cooler temperatures, lots of rain, and maybe even a little snow. According to the National Weather Service, a strong storm system will spread several ...

8 years ago
A Nebraska mayor is pushing for changes in Kansas' oversight of prairie and ranchland burning after smoke from the Flint Hills spurred health warnings in Nebraska's capital city. Lincoln, Nebraska, Mayor Chris Beutler sent a letter Friday to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment pressing for action. KDHE environmental division director John Mitchell says Kansas' prairie-burning ...