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Salina Police are investigating after shots are fired at three different locations. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that officers were called to the 200 block of S. Phillips on Thursday night at 9:33pm after neighbors heard gunfire. Police found 4 shell casings from a high powered handgun, but no damage to property. Hours later at 3am Friday ...

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A Salina man is arrested while trying to reach for a pellet gun. Salina Police were called to a home at 937 Pearl Avenue Thursday just before 5pm to calm a distraught man. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 42-year-old Timothy Johnson was intoxicated and making threatening statements when officers arrived. Police say he made suicidal statements ...

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Fort Hays State is looking for students for its first Honors College this fall. The school began recruiting academically gifted students for an accelerated learning curriculum last week in Lawrence and Kansas City. It will hold a 13-city, three-state tour to recognize high school students and transfers who will receive Fort Hays State scholarships this fall. Students ...

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Between 8:00 PM on January 20, 2015 and 9:00 AM on January 21, 2015 a burglary was committed at La Jerezana Mexican Store, 1318 S Santa Fe. Unknown person or persons forced open the front door and took the following items: 30” Sony flat screen TV w/DVD player Dell Notebook Inspiron 15 Laptop Computer Apple IPad 4th Generation 20 ...

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A little more than a week removed from some of the coldest days of the season, an unseasonably warm weekend is shaping up. A warming trend will culminate over the weekend with high temperatures peaking in the upper 50s and lower 60s around some areas of Central Kansas. According to the National Weather Service, the warmer weather ...

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The Kansas City Police Department is honoring a man as a hero after he took a bullet in the back to save a woman's life in June. Qwamayne Frazier received a certificate of appreciation on Thursday night from the police department. Frazier was hit by a bullet while trying to protect a woman from a shooting in ...

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Siemens says it has received an order to supply 21 wind turbines to the Alexander wind project located 120 miles northwest of Wichita. The Hutchinson-based company announced Thursday in a news release that it has reached a deal with NJR Clean Energy Ventures, a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, for the 48-megawatt project in Kansas. The $85 ...

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Top Kansas Democratic lawmakers are preparing to speak out against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's budget proposals. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka and House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs of Kansas City are expected to detail their objections to the governor's proposals during a news conference Friday. Brownback's budget recommendations call for sharp increases in cigarette and ...

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Gov. Sam Brownback has promised to sign legislation to ban a procedure used to terminate hundreds of pregnancies in Kansas every year. Brownback made his pledge Thursday during a Statehouse rally with hundreds of abortion opponents. The event was sponsored by Kansans for Life and marked the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing ...

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Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would toughen punishments for hate crimes. Democratic Sen. David Haley spoke in favor of the bill, which would double sentences for offenses determined to be hate crimes. Haley said the bill would help protect potential victims from crimes motivated by prejudice. But Republican Sen. Forrest Knox expressed skepticism of the ...

10 years ago
Federal regulators have cited a company for violations stemming from a deadly southeast Kansas fireworks explosion. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $55,000 in fines against Lone Star Management LLC after finding nine serious safety violations. The blast happened Aug. 12 as employees were moving pallets of fireworks and cardboard out of an explosives storage ...