8 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has announced his first known prosecution of a non-citizen voting illegally since lawmakers in 2015 gave him the authority to prosecute voter fraud. Kobach says in a news release Wednesday that Victor David Garcia Bebek pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of voting unlawfully in 2012 and 2014. The plea deal ...

8 years ago
A Kansas woman is accused of decapitating her ex-boyfriend's mother when the victim went to collect her son's belongings. Thirty-five-year-old Rachael Hilyard of Wichita was charged Wednesday with one count of first-degree murder in the death Sunday of 63-year-old Micki Davis. During a brief court appearance, a Sedgwick County judge assigned Hilyard to be represented by ...

8 years ago
Two sisters injured in a Kansas waterslide accident that killed a state lawmaker's 10-year-old son have reached a settlement with the water park's owner. Attorney Lynn Johnson on Wednesday confirmed the out-of-court deal with the Schlitterbahn park over the "Verruckt" slide accident last summer. Johnson wouldn't reveal details of the settlement. The sisters' names haven't been publicly ...

8 years ago
Federal investigators say mistakes by a delivery driver and an employee of a northeast Kansas distilling plant led to the mixing of incompatible chemicals, causing a noxious cloud to spread over Atchison last year. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a preliminary report issued Wednesday that design and labeling deficiencies at the loading station at ...

8 years ago
Republicans have pulled out a victory in Kansas in the first of four U.S. House special elections to replace GOP congressmen named to top jobs in President Donald Trump's administration, but the next contest for a seat in Georgia could be tougher. The margin of victory Tuesday for Republican Ron Estes in the Kansas 4th District ...

8 years ago
Authorities say no one was hurt when a small plane made an emergency landing in a pasture near Emporia because of engine problems. The Emporia Gazette reports that the plane landed Tuesday night about three miles west and one mile north of the Emporia Municipal Airport. The Lyon County Sheriff's Office says the pilot was unharmed, and ...

8 years ago
Salina USD 305 is looking for a new superintendent.  Salina School Superintendent Bill Hall resigned Tuesday night. Hall submitted his resignation during an executive session Tuesday evening.  It is effective June 30th. According to USD 305, the Board has accepted Superintendent Hall’s resignation. The vote was 5-2, with Board President Johnna Vosseler and board member Ann Zimmerman ...

8 years ago
Several people were hurt in a crash involving multiple vehicles on a smoke covered road near Brookville Tuesday afternoon. Officials tell KSAL News that the crash involved a car, and a couple of all terrain vehicles. The ATVS were on Brookville Road, about a mile north of Brookville, and were being used to keep a controlled burn ...

8 years ago
Central Kansas Mental Health Executive Director Kathy Mosher told Saline County Commissioners that a pilot program to reduce recidivism at the jail produced an estimated savings of $140,247 last year.  Mosher said that after receiving services from CKMHC, 15 soon-to-be-released inmates did not return to jail within 90 days or longer.  This amounted to a ...

8 years ago
Fire officials estimate that a weekend apartment complex fire in Junction City caused nearlyJunction City apartment blaze damage totals around $3.8M in damage. The Junction City Fire Department said Monday that additional individual property loss for residents will vary. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2oVbARV ) reports that firefighters dumped more than 1.6 million gallons of water on the blaze ...

8 years ago
Salina Regional Health Center and cardiologists with Mowery Clinic recently began offering a new treatment for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, that serves as an alternative to long-term anticoagulation medication used to reduce risk for stroke. Patients with atrial fibrillation have a five times greater risk for stroke than people with ...