9 years ago
A small SUV careened down an embankment in a dramatic three-vehicle crash in South Salina Saturday evening. The crash happened in the 1200 block of E. Cloud Street, in front of the east entrance to the Dillons grocery store parking lot. Witnesses told KSAL News at the scene that a small SUV was headed west on Cloud ...

9 years ago
The University of Kansas Senate is organizing a committee to research and propose a policy to uphold freedom of speech at the school. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://j.mp/1X1LhCA) the committee, which was recently approved, will form this summer and work through the next academic year. The committee was proposed by outgoing University Senate President Mike Williams, an ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A 20-year-old caregiver faces state charges accusing her of hitting and confining two mentally challenged men in her care. The Lawrence Journal-World reported Friday that Brooke Tiara Shinn of Topeka was arrested last month and faces felony charges of mistreatment of a dependent adult and aggravated battery, as well as a misdemeanor ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Public defenders have withdrawn from representing a Topeka man who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges and admitted to plotting to bomb a northeast Kansas military installation. Defense attorney Melody Brannon said Friday during a brief federal court hearing that a potential conflict of interest had developed with 21-year-old John T. Booker ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - State agencies, cities and counties in Kansas will not be allowed to bar workers from carrying concealed guns while performing duties outside their offices, starting in July. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a gun-rights bill this week that includes the provision affecting government workers. Agencies still could limit the carrying of concealed ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas has put James Naismith's original rules of basketball on display at the new DeBruce Center, which was built to house the historical two-page document. The 32,000-square-foot, $21.7 million DeBruce Center is the permanent home for "The Original 13 Rules of Basket Ball," which Naismith wrote in 1891. The ...

9 years ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Newly released court documents allege that a Manhattan homicide suspect killed a 3-month-old girl. The Manhattan Mercury reports that 25-year-old Andrew Gibson is jailed on first-degree murder and child abuse charges in last week's death of a 3-month-old baby. Bond is set at $500,000. The affidavit says that a series of bruises and ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has asked the state Supreme Court to revisit conflicting rulings it issued simultaneously last month dealing with the sex offender registry. The state argued in a motion filed Friday that the five decisions reaching contrary results has caused unnecessary confusion. The Supreme Court ruled in the leading case ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas will specifically prohibit nurse-midwives from performing abortions or administering abortion-inducing drugs, starting next year. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill Friday that includes the prohibition while rewriting laws regulating multiple health care professions. The changes will allow nurse-midwives to practice independently within a limited scope of care starting next year instead ...

9 years ago
Blowing dust, causing near-zero visibility, caused a couple of multiple vehicle crashes along Interstate 70 in Geary County west of Junction City late Friday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, one of the crash scenes involved 6 vehicles. The other involved 4 vehicles. Traffic was backed up for nearly 10 miles in both directions as first ...

9 years ago
The man accused of firing the fatal shot that killed a 17-year-old Salina South High School student last spring has been found guilty of 1st degree murder. At the end of a trial that lasted a full week, a jury Friday evening returned guilty verdicts on all charges that 23-year-old Maceo Palacio was facing. Those charges ...