8 years ago
The vice chair of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission says we may never know whether Hillary Clinton really won the 2016 election's popular vote. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was asked in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC whether he believed Clinton had won the popular vote because of fraud. He responded, "We will probably never ...

8 years ago
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Kansas sex offenders confined indefinitely in a state program for post-prison mental health treatment. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled this week that the suit failed to provide details to support claims that the treatment the offenders are receiving at Larned State Hospital in western Kansas ...

8 years ago
A Salina native is set to entertain on Friday. This week's Friday Night Live concert features Randy Baldwin. Baldwin does not categorize his music in any specific genre. Rather, he feels that his songs take on a life of their own as variations are added by the musicians who surround him. Influences include everything from the ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a theft of $2,200 from Central National Bank at 2900 S. 9th inside of Wal-Mart. The incident occurred on Tuesday, July 18 between 3:20 P.M. and 4 P.M.  Capt. Paul Forrester says that a male subject asked to trade out $4,800 worth of $20 bills in to $100 bills. Once the cash had ...

8 years ago
The man who killed three people during a shooting rampage in downtown Wichita nearly 41 years ago is being denied parole. Michael Soles, 19-years-old at the time, became known as the Holiday Inn Sniper in 1976 after he carried two rifles and an ammunition-filled lunch pail to the top floor of a 26-story building that was ...

8 years ago
Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran chose President Donald Trump's favorite medium when they were ready to disrupt the GOP rewrite of the health care law. The somewhat unlikely pair of conservatives tweeted at 8:30 p.m. Monday night that they could not support the Senate health plan, giving no heads up to the White House or ...

8 years ago
A pair of Kansas State University Polytechnic faculty members have been honored. According to the school, Troy Harding has been named the recipient of the 2017 Rex McArthur Family Faculty Fellow Award and Bill Gross has been named the 2017 Marchbanks Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence recipient. Troy Harding, computer systems technology professor at Kansas State University ...

8 years ago
Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is a Republican stalwart who had a reputation for caution before he helped torpedo the latest Senate GOP plan for overhauling health care. Moran announced his opposition to the measure along with Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a tea party favorite. Without enough GOP votes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abandoned the bill. Moran ...

8 years ago
Saline County Commissioners unanimously approved a request from Sheriff Rodger Soldan to increase the price paid to hold an average of 40 jail inmates in Ottawa County’s jail.  The price to house an inmate will increase from $30 to $35/day, which is in line with what the Sheriff’s Office pays other jails.  Annually, this will ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is weighing whether state legislators boosted spending on public schools enough this year to provide a suitable education to all children, as the high court had ordered. The justices heard arguments Tuesday from attorneys about a new school finance law but appeared skeptical that the funding plan offers enough money for education. That ...

8 years ago
Fort Hays State University is getting a $1 million gift. According to the school, the gift from Don and Chris Bickle will impact a multitude of students in a variety of areas at the university. “Don is known to lead the band and crowd in cheering on Tiger athletics, but Don and Chris Bickle’s encouragement permeates ...