8 years ago
Volunteer firefighters who make up 90 percent of Kansas' firefighters are in need of additional funding. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas spends about $300,000 at the state level on firefighting, less than almost any other state. This resulted in local firefighters having no extra help to fight the state's biggest wildfire in March, which burned ...

8 years ago
Rainfall in central and eastern Kansas is greening pastures and helping winter wheat, but is delaying corn planting. Most western counties remain dry. That is the latest assessment Monday from The National Agricultural Statistics Service of crop progress in Kansas. The agency rated the state's winter wheat crop as 6 percent excellent, 45 percent good and 33 ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a known suspect who fractured a man's facial bones in a fight. According to Police Captain Paul Forrester, officers interviewed the 28-year-old victim at the hospital, who was suffering from 2 broken bones in his face. Police say an argument on Monday night around 10:30pm inside a home in the 600 block ...

8 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed a legislator as the next state treasurer to replace Republican Ron Estes after Estes won a special congressional election. Brownback announced Tuesday that GOP state Sen. Jake LaTurner of Pittsburg will serve the rest of Estes' four-year term as treasurer. LaTurner said he will seek a full term in 2018. Twenty-nine-year-old ...

8 years ago
A homeless man is taken into custody after he allegedly broke into a Salina church and stole food. Police responded to an alarm Tuesday morning around 4:30am at the First Presbyterian Church located at 308 S. 8th. Police say 28-year-old Matthew Dumler was found inside the facility eating and caused $100 in damage to a door and ...

8 years ago
A fire destroys a van northwest of Salina. Crews from Rural Fire District #3 were called to a vehicle fire Tuesday morning at 4:30am at 1500 North Link Road. Owner Kathy Reynolds told investigators that the 2002 Pontiac Montana mini-van had recently stopped running and they had pushed the vehicle off the driveway. She awoke this morning to ...

8 years ago
Family and friends are mourning the death of former Salina man who was killed in an unusual Easter weekend motorcycle crash. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol,  the crash happened when 37-year-old Casey Bezdek was riding a 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle Sunday afternoon in the Kansas City area. Bezdek was headed west on Interstate 70.  For an ...

8 years ago
A woman says she wants her late brother "back home" after a bag containing his ashes was stolen from her car in Kansas City. The theft happened Saturday when Naida Shipp and her fiance went to a doughnut shop with their fathers in the Westport bar and entertainment district. While returning to her car, she found ...

8 years ago
A federal judge has ordered Kansas' top elections official to turn over a proposed changes to federal voting rights laws that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump. After privately examining the documents, U.S. Magistrate James O'Hara ruled Monday that parts of documents from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach are "unquestionably relevant" to ...

8 years ago
Republican Ron Estes plans to take his seat April 25 as the congressman representing south-central Kansas. Estes is state treasurer and won a special election for the 4th Congressional District seat previously held by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Estes plans to step down as state treasurer when he's sworn in as congressman. He submitted aresignation to GOP ...

8 years ago
A budget proposal that puts a passenger train route that passes through Kansas at risk is raising concerns. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that President Donald Trump's budget calls for the elimination of federal subsidies for some money-losing long-distance train routes. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said in an email that the final and full budget plan for Amtrak's ...