9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Four former Kansas governors are lashing out at Gov. Sam Brownback over policies they say have thrown the state into a serious fiscal crisis. A letter signed Friday by Republicans Bill Graves and Mike Hayden and Democrats Kathleen Sebelius and John Carlin calls the upcoming elections the most important in Kansas history. The ...

9 years ago
HOUSTON (AP) - The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by three this week to 421, snapping three weeks of gains after a slide that lasted months and pushed the count to record-low levels amid depressed energy prices. A year ago, 859 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker ...

9 years ago
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas City man has been charged with threatening a Jewish congregation in Kansas. Forty-year-old Brian Wachter made a first court appearance Thursday on a single criminal threat count. Wachter is jailed in Johnson County, with bond set at $25,000. No attorney is listed for him in online court records. The Kansas City ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The city of Lawrence is ditching a plan to add security measures that must be installed in some public buildings under a new state law in order to restrict concealed firearms. The 2013 Personal and Family Protection Act allowed Lawrence and other cities to ban concealed weapons for four years before complying ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A coroner's office wasn't able to determine what killed a 2-year-old Wichita girl whose body was found in a field. Medical examiner Timothy Gorrill says in an autopsy report that toxicology tests on Jhornee Bland were negative and the cause of her death will be listed as undetermined. The girl was found dead ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Prosecutors have charged a Kansas man for allegedly lying to FBI agents who were investigating an attack on three Somali men in Dodge City. An indictment unsealed Friday charges 27-year-old Diego Martinez of Dodge City with one count of making false statements. He is the brother and the half-brother of two of ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators have passed an education funding plan from Republican leaders that boosts aid to poor school districts to satisfy a state Supreme Court mandate and end a threat that the state's public schools might not reopen next month. The plan approved Friday night increases aid to poor school districts by $38 million for 2016-17 by ...

9 years ago
So you thinks there's nothing to do in Salina? Well, think again. The first weekend of summer is shaping up to be a busy one, with many hotels at capacity. The Salina Area Chamber of Commerce says that multiple events are scheduled, and are expected to bring an unusually large number of visitors. These visitors will ...

9 years ago
A group of former Kansas Governors are uniting to "Save Kansas". Former Governors Bill Graves, Mike Hayden, John Carlin, and Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to many Kansans Friday asking for their support. According to the organization, the letter's purpose is to "educate citizens about the destructive policies of the Brownback administration and the Governor's supporters ...

9 years ago
A couple of more people on the latest list of Salina's Most Wanted have been caught. The 14th and 15th arrests were made Thursday. The latest arrests are Dustin Helm, who was wanted for felony drug crimes, and Amy Pennington, who was wanted for felony theft. Those on the list of Salina's Most Wanted this month are ...

9 years ago
A Salina man was arrested after allegedly choking a woman, and then later stealing her keys. Police allege that 35-year-old Charles Nelson briefly choked a female acquaintance during an incident on Monday in a North Salina home.  Nelson left, then later returned and took the woman's keys from her. Nelson was arrested on Thursday. He could face ...