9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas judge is standing by his earlier ruling that Secretary of State Kris Kobach has no legal right to bar people who register to vote using a federal form from voting in local and state elections. This week, Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis (Tice) rejected Kobach's request to reconsider his ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A fired University of Kansas assistant professor is claiming anti-German discrimination and a hostile work environment in a civil rights lawsuit against the school. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Catherine Joritz is asking the court to reinstate her in the suit filed this week in Douglas County District Court. Issues arose when students ...

9 years ago
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Harris Enterprises has announced plans to sell its six newspapers. John Montgomery, vice president of Harris Enterprises and publisher of The Hutchinson News, announced Friday that the company's newspapers are up for sale. The Hutchinson-based company said it has hired a firm to sell the chain. Bruce Buchanan, president of Harris Enterprises, said ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas lawmaker has stirred up the debate over education funding with a brief history lesson about school finance and the state's founding. Republican Sen. Greg Smith of Overland Park distributed a computer run showing how state aid to school districts would have been distributed under language on public education originally included ...

9 years ago
Health officials are warning people of toxic levels of blue-green algae in several lakes. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued health warnings for Cheney Lake in south-central Kansas, the Sebelius Reservoir in northwest Kansas and the Marion Reservoir in central Kansas. The health warning for the Marion Reservoir does not include Marion County ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a white male suspect who passed a counterfeit $100 bill at Popeyes Chicken at 2125 N. 9th on Thursday afternoon and stole the change. Police say he ordered a $12 meal and paid with the bogus bill. He then entered Starbucks Coffee in the same complex and attempted to purchase a $6 ...

9 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after his manager discovered him stealing a mattress and box springs from the store. Police arrested 22-year-old Michael McDaniel on Thursday for allegedly loading a Serta mattress and box springs into his truck at Sears, 2259 S. 9th. The set, valued at $2,099 was recovered.

9 years ago
Authorities say a train has struck and killed a man in central Kansas. The Newton Kansan reports that the man was killed Friday morning in Newton. Police say investigators are working to identify the man who had no identification with him when he died. The Kansas Highway Patrol is assisting with the investigation.

9 years ago
A Salina daycare provider is arrested for allegedly choking a child who was in her care at 1912 Simmons Street. Police took 51-year-old Christine A. Knipp into custody on Thursday after the mother of a preschool age girl called police about marks she discovered on her child's neck. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that officers found ...

9 years ago
An overnight fire that damaged a downtown Salina building is under investigation. First responders were called to a fire just after 1:00 Friday morning at the Salvation Army Thrift Store at 157 S. 5th Street. There was smoke and flames, on the outside of the back of the building. Firefighters were able to quickly get it ...

9 years ago
A rural Saline County Community has a special event planned this Friday and Saturday, with a goal of putting the finishing touches on a community park. Volunteers will gather for a "community build" in Assaria to help construct playground equipment at the Assaria Community Park. Volunteers have been steadily renovating the park. When the project began the ...