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SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City man faces federal charges in an Overland Park bank robbery. The U.S. attorney's office says 19-year-old Mamoudou M. Kaba, of Shawnee, was indicted Wednesday on one count of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm ...

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Kansas schoolchildren are faring worse on a test known as the nation's report card. The state's performance dip follows a national trend of falling scores on the National Assessment of Educational progress or NAEP. The scores were released Wednesday. They show that the math scores of Kansas fourth and eighth graders slipped over the last two ...

9 years ago
Salina's Downtown will come alive on Friday afternoon from 4pm to 5:30pm as trick-or-treaters visit Santa Fe businesses during the annual Boo-Rama event. Penny Bettles with Downtown Salina tells KSAL News that a large crowd is expected on Friday as merchants open up bags of treats for hundreds of children the day before Halloween. "It's ...

9 years ago
Kenny's Auto Body on 615 East Pacific housed two cars that were damaged last Friday. Both vehicles had the steering column damaged indicating the perpetrator attempted to steal them; the total repairs are estimated at $800.

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DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - The recent discovery of a dead mountain lion in western Kansas makes five confirmed mountain lion sightings in the state since August. The state Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism says before 2007, Kansas went more than a century without ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The Douglas County Sheriff's Office wants the county to commit to reducing the number of jail inmates who are seriously mentally ill. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the sheriff's office will the county commissioners to commit to the reduction during a ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A man has been charged in the death of a 17-year-old Wichita boy who was shot in the head at a birthday party. Forty-one-year-old Grover James is charged with first-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Authorities say Leon McClennon died ...

9 years ago
LYONS, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say one person has died in a central Kansas house fire. Lyons Fire Chief Brad Reid says crews responded to the fire around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. KWCH-TV reports that the parents made it out of the home safely. But Reid ...

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WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) - A south-central Kansas woman has been convicted of fatally beating and stabbing her 10-year-old son to death in his bedroom. Lindsey Nicole Blansett of Wellington was found guilty Tuesday in Sumner County of first-degree murder in the December 2014 death of ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A woman is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson in a fire that killed two Kansas City firefighters. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced the charges Tuesday against Thu Hong Nguyen, an employee of a nail salon and spa that was one of ...

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The Salina Bicentennial Center held its open house this evening as a celebration for the completion of renovations. The $13 million renovations added some aesthetic upgrades to the facility, as well as functional necessities such as bringing the locker rooms and other parts of the facility up to ADA regulation. Salina mayor Jon Blanchard, Bicentennial Center general ...