9 years ago
A recent study says the Kansas government could run on its cash reserves for only two days. The Wichita Eagle  reports that Pew Charitable Trusts analyzed cash reserves for all states at the end of the most recent fiscal years and estimated how long state government could continue to function if it relied on those reserves. Kansas ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a fraud case after a woman was contacted by FedEx. Police say the call from the delivery company tipped off the victim that someone had used her credit card number without permission to make four online transactions at Eddie Bauer. The merchandise, totaling $920 was shipped to Alabama.   Police report a 1982 ...

9 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has struck a deal with the American Civil Liberties Union that he hopes will help him avoid a contempt finding. The deal would allow people who registered at motor vehicle offices or with a federal form without providing citizenship documents to vote in the November election with a traditional secret ...

9 years ago
A janitor doused a smoldering fire set by a group of males at a Salina school. Police say at about 5:30pm Wednesday a custodian at Cottonwood Elementary School, 215 S. Phillips noticed a group of boys on the playground, attempting to ignite a fire under the slipper slide. As he approached them, three boys fled on bikes, ...

9 years ago
Police arrested a homeless man Thursday after an alleged Wednesday night assault in downtown Salina. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that a 16-year-old girl was walking in the 100 block of E. Walnut near the Stiefel Theatre around 9:30pm Wednesday. She told police that she felt like she was being followed. When she turned around ...

9 years ago
Authorities have charged a teenager in connection with a reported sexual assault at a high school in suburban Kansas City. The Johnson County district attorney's office said Wednesday that the 15-year-old male is charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child, which is a felony, and lewd and lascivious behavior, a misdemeanor. A female freshman at Shawnee ...

9 years ago
A fraternity at the University of Missouri has been suspended while officials investigate reports of racial and sexist slurs. The Delta Upsilon national organization suspended its chapter at the university Wednesday after an incident in which members were accused of shouting slurs at black students late Tuesday. The university is investigating after two black female students said ...

9 years ago
A civilian employee accused of setting a co-worker on fire at a health center at Kansas' Fort Leavenworth is facing an additional charge in a new federal indictment. Grand jurors on Wednesday in Kansas City, Kansas, indicted 54-year-old Clifford Currie of Leavenworth with one count each of assault with intent to commit murder and of assault ...

9 years ago
Another mountain lion has been documented in Kansas. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, a hunter  in Rawlins County had quite the surprise this month when checking his trail cam photos. A lone mountain lion was caught in a couple frames. The clarity of the shots provide a crystal clear image of the ...

9 years ago
Their smiles are captured in time - as they serve time in Kansas prisons. The Faces of Change exhibition by photographer Nick Vedros, now at the Salina Art Center is a collection of black and white portraits, taken of inmates that shine far beyond a mugshot. "He has humanized his subjects," said Bill North, Executive Director Salina ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a 12-year-old driver has struck a convenience store worker with a pickup truck, knocking the 71-year-old employee through a plate glass window. The employee was sent to a Wichita hospital with a possible leg fracture after being hit Tuesday while picking up trash outside the store in the small town of Walton. The young driver ...