8 years ago
A Kansas House committee has advanced a bill that would protect public employers from liability for employees carrying concealed handguns while working outside of a public building. The House Federal and State Affairs Committee passed the bill Friday. Under the bill, a public employer could not be sued if their employee acted wrongfully or negligently with ...

8 years ago
The cost of upgrading security at Kansas' major mental hospitals in Osawatomie and Larned in order to avoid allowing concealed carry firearms in the building could reach $25 million. A state law beginning in July requires an open-door policy at the two hospitals serving people with severe mental illnesses unless extraordinary security measures have been taken ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has cleared a major obstacle to the construction of a long-delayed coal-fired power plant in the state's southwestern corner. The court Friday rejected a legal challenge from the Sierra Club to a state decision giving Sunflower Electric Power Corp. the go-ahead for its $2.8 billion project. The Hays-based utility wants to build ...

8 years ago
The Salina JCPenney store is not among those the company is closing. The company announced Friday the stores which will close. The store in the Salina Central Mall is not on the list. Five Kansas stores are on the list. Kansas stores that will close include Chanute, Great Bend, Hutchinson, Lawrence, and Winfield. Here is the complete ...

8 years ago
Truckloads of hay from South Dakota farmers are headed south to states where ranchers have been devastated by wildfires. More than a dozen trucks loaded with hay bales left South Dakota Wednesday and Thursday destined for ranches in Colorado and Kansas. Organizer Jed Olbertson says a load has already arrived in the southwest Kansas community of ...

8 years ago
A first of its kind comic-inspired event is coming to Salina. Organizers are busy preparing the first ever Salina Comic Con. The event will feature comics, toys, cards (both sports and non‐sports) artwork and much more. Local and several out of state vendors will be there buying, selling and trading. At the show there might be a ...

8 years ago
The University of Kansas says reported crimes increased 2 percent from 2015 to 2016, led by an increase in theft and criminal damage to property cases. Annual crime statistics from the university's Office of Public Safety show officers handled 770 criminal cases in 2016, up from 757 in 2015. The Lawrence Journal World reports theft reports jumped ...

8 years ago
Three Kansas men accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in the state are facing a second federal conspiracy count. A revised indictment returned Thursday in Wichita against Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen of plotting for months last year to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimate" Somalis who lived at a Garden City apartment complex. While ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Senate has rejected a proposal from its top Republican leader to cut state spending by $105 million to help the state avoid a budget deficit on June 30. The vote Thursday was 33-7 against the proposal from President Susan Wagle of Wichita. She offered it as an amendment to bill aimed at getting the ...

8 years ago
USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall says he will stay the course and continue to lead Salina's schools, despite a 4-3 vote to non-renew his contract in two years. "I believe I owe it to this community to commit to the school system and move forward and finish the things that we have started, " Hall said ...

8 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo has lost a beloved member of their animal family. The zoo says Clyde, the 40 year old male Sumatran orangutan, passed away as he was being prepared for surgery Wednesday morning. Clyde was going into surgery for suspected air sacculitis, a disease condition that is often fatal in orangutans and other primates, with ...