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A Salina woman is in police custody after she was arrested on warrant. Tara Scales, 43, is charged with three counts of felony theft and four counts of misdemeanor theft. Scales was an employee at KFC at 403 South Broadway where she stole deposits and change from the business safe in early April. The total ...

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A Salina teen is in police custody after she was involved in a short flee and elude early this morning. The teenager was reported by her mother around 3:30AM when the mother called the police saying the daughter stole her 2002 Saturn and had left the house. Police spotted the vehicle at 9th St and Crawford. When ...

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The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating after a man died when the car he was riding in collided with a Kansas City, Kansas, police car. The patrol says the accident happened late Thursday when a car made left turn in front of the police car on a Kansas City, Kansas, ...

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Between 10:45 AM on August 21, 2015 and 6:00 AM on August 22, 2015 a room was entered in the computer lab at Kansas Wesleyan University, 100 E Claflin. A Dell Optiplex 7010 computer, a Dell 19” monitor and a 10’ network cable were taken. Loss and damage is estimated at $2,100. If you have any information ...

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The University of Kansas says it's reached a settlement agreement over the release of documents to a student group looking for ties between an economic research center and Charles and David Koch. Art Hall, a lecturer and executive director of the Center for Applied Economics in the University of Kansas School of Business, sued the university ...

9 years ago
A child advocacy group's leader says parts of a new Kansas welfare law appear to conflict with federal child care policies, potentially jeopardizing more than $40 million a year in federal funds. Kansas Action for Children CEO Shannon Cotsoradis raised additional issues Thursday about the welfare law approved by legislators this year. She's making her comments ...

9 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is correct on his immigration proposals. Kobach was an adviser on immigration policy for 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and says he had urged Romney to adopt the "self-deportation" concept in his campaign. Immigration enforcement is "a huge issue" for independents, and Kobach believes ...

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An accomplice in the killings of a Kansas couple has been sentenced to prison. Twenty-year-old Andrew Ellington was sentenced Thursday to life plus nearly 13 years for first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the deaths of Roger and Melissa Bluml. The adoptive parents of Ellington's friend, Anthony Bluml, were shot outside their Valley Center home in ...

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Pittsburg State University has completed a 15-year, $30 million effort to remodel all residential housing on its campus. On Wednesday, the university rededicated the final project - a $3.1 million renovation of Nation Hall East. The Joplin Globe reports most of the residence halls on campus are more than 50 years old. The renovations included enlarged bathrooms, new ...

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Authorities are investigating after the body of a minor was found near a south-central Kansas school playground. Sedgwick County sheriff's Lt. Lin Dehning says that the juvenile's death appears to be a suicide. The body was discovered Thursday morning near an elementary school in Haysville. The sheriff says the death had nothing to do with the school, ...

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A federal jury Thursday returned a guilty verdict in the case of a Junction City man who stole his father’s identity to apply for a loan to buy a $490,000 house. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom 47-year-old Matthew Williams was convicted on one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. During trial, ...