9 years ago
Everyone in Salina is invited to Kansas Wesleyan University on Monday evening for the Coyotes' Howl at the Moon Pep Rally on the campus quad. The free rally, which starts at 6:30, will be hosted by President Matt Thompson and Athletic Director Mike Hermann. Each of the 23 KWU sports teams will be introduced, and the ...

9 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has named a Leawood businessman as the state's secretary of commerce. Brownback's office said in a release Friday that George Hansen has been named secretary of commerce, replacing Pat George, who retired last month. Hansen's appointment requires confirmation by the Kansas Senate. The release says Hansen has more than 35 years of experience managing businesses ...

9 years ago
A judge has ruled that a 43-year-old inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility will stand trial for an attack on a corrections officer. The Hutchinson News reports that Reno County District Judge Joseph McCarville on Thursday ordered Corey Jeffery to stand trial for attempted capital murder for the Sept. 17, 2014, attack on Corrections Officer Timothy ...

9 years ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $20 million in grants to 15 states, including Kansas, to improve and increase wildlife habitat and public access for recreational opportunities on privately-owned and operated farm, ranch and forest lands. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism received a $2.7 million grant, the largest amount awarded to the ...

9 years ago
The chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party has resigned amid a backlash over comments he made about the party's message. The party's executive director, Kerry Gooch, confirmed to The Wichita Eagle that Larry Meeker resigned Friday shortly before the party's annual convention in Wichita. Meeker ...

9 years ago
A group that's worked to reunite Baxter Springs residents with hundreds of photos displaced by the April 2014 tornado is turning the remaining photos over to a Baxter Springs museum. The Joplin Globe reports a press conference to mark the transfer is scheduled for Saturday at the Baxter Springs Heritage ...

9 years ago
Police are investigating a burglary at a downtown Salina business. Rebecca Jane's, an arts and home store on N. Santa Fe, incurred $1,000 worth of damage and loss, including a stolen Apple iPad and $250 in cash, after a cinder block shattered the glass on a back door window. Captain Mike Sweeney says the robbery ...

9 years ago
A Salina man is arrested for entering his former employers business and stealing cash. Police arrested 34-year-old Michael L. Burross after surveillance video from Tom's Appletree Restaurant, 2450 S.9th revealed he entered the store with a key and stole about $30 in cash from the Mission Donation Box. Police say he also rearranged some food ...

9 years ago
Between 8:30 PM on July 30, 2015 and 6:00 PM on July 31, 2015 force was used to enter a business formally known as ALTER Engineering, located at 537 N. Santa Fe. A new Harley Davidson 80 cubic inch block head motor, an Altima 6 speed transmission for a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a red Waterloo toolbox ...

9 years ago
Several elected officials are weighing in to object to moving prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth. The outcry came after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter ordered a site survey at Fort Leavenworth as well as Charleston, S.C. Carter has said other sites will be assessed. State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald of Leavenworth said housing prisoners in Fort Leavenworth ...

9 years ago
School superintendents seeking supplemental state funding are responding to lawmaker's request to outline how they're saving money. Superintendents Robert Shannon and Jeff Bollinger worked Thursday to respond to the request by four Republican legislators for evidence of budget austerity ahead of a meeting in which more than three dozen Kansas districts will seek supplemental funding. Shannon, the ...