8 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a theft on the 4900 block of North Reese Road. Under sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL that on Friday morning, someone broke into a building housing vehicles on the farmstead by breaking a window and stole a steel animal Conibear trap valued at $30. Total loss and damage is valued at ...

8 years ago
For the seventh straight year, the Kansas State Wildcats are going bowling! K-State is down in Houston for the Texas Bowl. KSU takes on former Big 12 foe Texas A&M at NRG Stadium on Wednesday. Follow the Cats behind the scenes with Clarke Sanders, KSAL operations manager, Todd Pittenger, KSAL news director, and Pat Strathman, KSAL sports ...

8 years ago
Conservatives' election losses have been named the state's top story of 2016 by Associated Press reporters and editors. The gains for moderates followed mounting discontent over budget shortfalls, education funding and sales and cigarette tax increases. A gunman killing three people and wounding 14 others in February at a Hesston lawnmower factory was the second-biggest story of ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court says a man serving about 54 years in prison after being convicted in a 1999 rape and robbery case in Lawrence may be entitled to a few more days in court. The high court Friday ordered the Kansas Court of Appeals to reconsider if a case can be made that Terry D. ...

8 years ago
A nearly $40,000 cleanup is set to begin at a Lawrence community building that was found to have high levels of lead. Since the lead contamination was discovered this year, the basement room at the Community Building has been locked up. Professional decontamination is set to begin Monday. Mark Hecker, assistant director of the Lawrence Parks ...

8 years ago
For the 34th year in a row Salina Chef Bill Fekas prepared the biggest Christmas dinner in Salina. A large crowd enjoyed the annual Bill Fekas Family Christmas Dinner. Fekas had a dream in 1982 to prepare and serve a free dinner for anyone who was alone on Christmas Day. Late Salina businessman Dean Evans told ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has disbarred a longtime Topeka lawyer from practice because of how he handled two clients' estates. In the unanimous ruling Friday, the court disbarred Bruce C. Harrington, saying he "violated his duties to his clients, to the legal system, to the profession, and to the public." The court's ruling said Harrington wrote himself ...

8 years ago
Donors have given thousands of dollars this holiday season to pay off school lunch debts for Topeka-area families. The donors' combined gifts total more than $6,300 and benefit children at Topeka Unified School District 501, Seaman USD 345, Auburn-Washburn USD 437 and Shawnee Heights USD 450. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://j.mp/2hea5Lp) that one contribution, which was directed ...

8 years ago
A trail linking significant landmarks in Topeka's history and combining public art and education is in the planning stages. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports the Freedom's Frontier group will partner with local students from elementary through high school to design interpretive sidewalk murals depicting the stories of at least 10 local sites for the Topeka Heritage Trail. Locations ...

8 years ago
One of two men charged with kidnapping and raping a Kansas sheriff's deputy has been charged with sexual assaulting a Missouri woman in February while the woman's 2-year-old daughter was in the same bed. Prosecutors say Brady Newman-Caddell was charged Friday in Jackson County, Missouri, with first-degree rape, two counts of sodomy and first-degree child endangerment. DNA ...

8 years ago
Kansas Turnpike Authority officials say they are keeping a close eye on traffic between Kansas City and Lawrence out of concern that the recently completed South Lawrence Trafficway could take revenue away from the Turnpike. Authority spokeswoman Jeri Biehler tells the Lawrence Journal-World  increases and decreases in traffic have been observed at toll plazas in that ...