9 years ago
Kansas legislative researchers say the state's cash balance could be smaller next June than lawmakers realized when they approved increases in sales and tobacco taxes to fill a $400 million budget gap. The Wichita Eagle reports the nonpartisan Legislative Research Department says Kansas will have about $67 million in its reserves by the end of the ...

9 years ago
A bail bonds scam deceives a second victim in Salina. Police report that a 21-year-old man who had recently bonded out of the Saline County Jail after a DUI charge through Midwest Bonding - was duped by a phone call from a criminal for more money. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that someone claiming to be ...

9 years ago
A long running dispute that boiled over in a Salina front yard leads to an arrest. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that officers were called to the 200 block of S. 11th Street around 10pm on July 12th after 19-year-old Tanner Wheeler allegedly pointed a speargun at a teenage male. Police say an ongoing dispute ...

9 years ago
Education authorities are raising concerns about new rules for the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System that they say could discourage retirees from teaching in Kansas classrooms. Under former rules, a teacher or school administrator could retire, draw a KPERS benefit and work full time for a new school district or his or her same school district. New ...

9 years ago
A pair of Kansas shoe store employees are being lauded for their actions after one of them found a 2-year-old locked inside a sweltering car in the parking lot. 16-year-old Porscha Bland had just left a Famous Footwear store in Merriam on Saturday afternoon when she saw the child in a car, covered in sweat and ...

9 years ago
A 54-year-old former employee of a Wichita surgery center has been found guilty of computer fraud for a mass transfer of emails that included information of 317 patients. April Galvan was found guilty Monday of seven counts of computer fraud. Authorities say that around 11:30 a.m. June 12, 2013, Galvan had been fired from Cypress Surgery Center. ...

9 years ago
President Barack Obama has signed a federal disaster declaration that will free up federal funds to help Kansas recover from recent spring storms. The federal money will go toward repairing damage to infrastructure and services damaged by May and June storms that included tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding. Obama signed the disaster declaration Monday. Federal funding is ...

10 years ago
The Salina City Commission has expressed interest in making public art a part of the new Field House Salina project. Salina Arts and Humanities Executive Director Brad Anderson mew with commissioners during a study session Monday afternoon. Anderson tells KSAL News that he was asked to work with the architect of the the project, and an ...

10 years ago
A Kansas school district the state's new education commissioner left earlier this month is facing questions over the timing of revelations that an administrator was suspected of misusing district funds. McPherson School District officials knew in mid-June that associate superintendent Chris Ruder was suspected of charging personal expenses on a district card, but he wasn't suspended ...

10 years ago
A federal judge has dismissed the indictment against seven men accused in 2012 of cheating investors out of $132 million. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted on Monday the request from prosecutors to dismiss the case. Its end comes nearly three years after the government announced the indictment, alleging at the time that investors were ...

10 years ago
Kansas State University says it has received $141.5 million in gift pledges in the fiscal year that just ended. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the donations for the fiscal year that ended June 30 came from individual supporters and corporate partners, with 57,813 individuals making more than 80,550 gifts. Alumni made nearly half the gifts and were the ...