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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 ...

9 years ago
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 ...

9 years ago
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 ...

9 years ago
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, ...

9 years ago
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, ...

9 years ago
Bob and Marian Brandenburg shared their love of beekeeping and love of God with orphans in Zimbabwe this year during a one of a kind mission trip. The retired couple from Manhattan returned this spring with stories of progress - and a plan to return to the village in southeast Africa where Eden Ministries provides care ...

9 years ago
A bike is missing after someone stole it on North Ohio. The $800 KHS gray mountain bike was stolen sometime after 8AM on Wednesday and has not been returned.

9 years ago
Salina police urge caution as an 80-year-old couple finds themselves victims of a scam. The couple was contacted just before noon on Wednesday by phone by whom they thought was their grandson. The caller stated that he was the grandson, had been in a car accident, was in jail and needed money to post bail. ...

9 years ago
Officers from the I 135 / I 70 Drug Task force executing a search warrant make an arrest and seize a large amount of illegal drugs. According to the Salina Police Department, on Thursday as a result of an investigation, a search warrant was obtained for 105 S. 11th Street in Salina, the residence of Jack ...

9 years ago
Soldiers from Fort Riley are helping in the effort to fight wildfires in the western part of the country. According to the Army, soldiers assigned to 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, are providing around-the-clock medevac support to civilian and military agencies fighting the massive wildfire in ...