9 years ago
Kansas is urging the Kansas Supreme Court to let the governor and lawmakers decide whether schools are getting enough money. Lawyers for the state argued in a brief Tuesday that if the court wants to make that decision, then the evidence students are excelling should convince it that the funding is sufficient. Attorney General Derek Schmidt contends ...

9 years ago
Kansas City Power & Light is appealing a September ruling by Kansas regulators reducing the percentage of annual profit the utility is allowed to return to its stockholders. KCP&L filed a rate request seeking to boost annual revenues by $67 million in Kansas, or $11.67 a month for average residential customers. The request proposed increasing allowed ...

9 years ago
Hundreds of Franklin County residents are expected to receive jury summonses for the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing four people. Kyle Trevor Flack's trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 1, 2016. He's charged with capital murder in the 2013 slayings of 21-year-old Kaylie Smith Bailey and her daughter, 18-month-old Lana-Leigh Bailey. He's ...

9 years ago
A couple of inmates at the Saline County Jail are facing disciplinary action after a couple of containers of "hooch", or homemade alcohol, were discovered. Saline County Sheriff Captain Brent Melander tells KSAL news that two containers of a fermenting concoction were discovered in a storage room in the kitchen area. One was in a coffee ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a vehicle used in several recent crimes. Police say that an 80's model Ford dually was used recently in several thefts in the 100 block of S. Broadway. If you have any information on this truck, call Crimestoppers at 825-TIPS, text SATIPS to CRIMES (274637), or visit Salina ...

9 years ago
Discussions from the County’s committee to identify what changes might be made to improve the functionality and appearance of the EXPO Center dominated Tuesday’s meeting. Making these improvements are conditional on whether the City Commission extends its lease on this property to the County beyond 2018. Among the needs identified: • Creating a covered warm-up arena; if ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating an alleged payroll check scam. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that on November 15th four Hispanic males and one female entered Fiesta VIP at 1515 West Crawford. All five cashed what appeared to be payroll checks from Nuno Landscape and Cleaning Service Abilene. The checks were in the amount of: $599.78 $459.98 $576.54 $596.54 $596.54 Sweeney says that it ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a couple of unrelated crimes in which guns were stolen. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that sometime between September 30th and November 22nd, a Glock Model 22 .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun belonging to Marty Walker was stolen from a home at 920 Custer. Total loss is listed at $580. Sweeney says that sometime ...

9 years ago
A piece of Hollywood history sold at auction for a big price. The blue-and-white dress Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" sold Monday for $1.56 million in New York. Bonhams Auctions had that piece along with nearly 400 others up for sale. The dress went to a phone bidder and crushed pre-sale estimates. ...

9 years ago
Roads in Kansas are starting to fill with holiday travelers. According to AAA Kansas, the roads and skies will still be plenty stuffed. AAA Travel forecasts 46.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday, a 0.6 percent increase over the 46.6 million people who traveled last year and the most ...

9 years ago
DERBY, Kan. (AP) —  A new report says a plane crash that killed a California traveling pastor and his longtime pilot in 2013 near Derby was the result of the pilot attempting to navigate icy conditions with malfunctioning controls. The National Transportation Safety Board report also says 49-year-old pilot Mitchell Morgan had reported problematic equipment to ...