8 years ago
The City of Brookville and City of Gypsum both received $2,000 grants from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Community Clean-Up Fund held at the Greater Salina Community Foundation. Both communities will provide dumpsters for residents to use to clean up personal and public property next spring.  The Gypsum Lions Club and Booster Club have also ...

8 years ago
The Salina Area United Way will soon be hitting the streets. Thanks in a part to  a $5,000 grant from the Greater Salina Community Foundation, the agency will soon have a mobile outreach unit. According to the agency, the funds will be used to convert an Eldorado Aerotech bus to be used as a mobile outreach ...

8 years ago
St. Luke's Health System in Kansas City is joining a national trend of providing so-called micro hospitals, which provide eight to 10 beds for overnight stays along with 24-hour emergency room services. St. Luke's says it is planning micro hospitals in Roland Park, Overland Park, Leawood and Kansas City, Kansas. The overnight beds make the hospitals ...

8 years ago
A backlash against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback over the state's budget problems could oust more of his allies from the Kansas Legislature in Tuesday's election. It also could save state Supreme Court justices. GOP nominee Donald Trump is expected to carry Kansas in the presidential race, and Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is all but certain to ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Junction City man has died after being struck while trying to change a tire on Interstate 70. The patrol says 29-year-old Anthony Espinosa died after he was hit late Friday on the interstate. The patrol says Espinosa was working on the disabled vehicle on the inside shoulder of I-70's westbound lanes ...

8 years ago
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating after a 1-year-old boy has died from an apparently accidental shooting. Police said the child, Antonio Rucker, Jr., was injured in the shooting Friday night at a restaurant. The Kansas City Star reports (http://j.mp/2fqltzL) police officers found the boy injured. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police said ...

8 years ago
Results are in from a final statewide poll leading up to election day. The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University conducted a poll from Nov. 1 through Nov. 3 to measure respondents’ preferences in the upcoming election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Results for this poll showed Donald Trump (58%) holds a 24-point lead ...

8 years ago
             The Buhler Crusaders improved to (9-0) since 2007 against the Abilene Cowboys with a 45-13 victory in Buhler Friday night. The game was never close.  Buhler led 38-0 at halftime and with Jhet Burkhart’s 13 yard touchdown run on the Crusaders opening possession of the second half it put ...

8 years ago
A judge has permanently blocked a dual voter registration system in Kansas. Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks ruling Friday has no immediate impact on next week's election because the judge had already temporarily prohibited Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach from implementing it. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged a move by Kobach to set up a ...

8 years ago
The University Senate at the University of Kansas wants the school's search for a new chancellor to be more transparent. The board on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution seeking public presentations and question-and-answer sessions with each finalist for the chancellor's job. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the statement also urges the Kansas Board of Regents to include ...

8 years ago
Police say a young girl is dead and another girl and a woman injured after stabbings in Wichita. The attacks happened around 6:30 a.m. Friday. Police responding to a call about an accident found one girl and the woman inside a Jeep that had crashed into an empty van in a Wichita parking lot. The girl is ...