10 years ago
Kansas lawmakers are working to reduce the state's prison population and costs, but parallel legislation to toughen penalties could stymie their efforts. The Kansas Sentencing Commission has submitted bills to the Legislature that would free up 150 beds in state prisons and save $3.6 million. One measure would keep offenders out of prison on their first ...

10 years ago
An enthusiastic crowd gathered Saturday morning to bid on a wide variety of items that included among other things services, romantic getaways, celebrity items and recreation packages. For the 26th year in a row, Child Advocacy and Parenting Services, or CAPS, hosted a celebrity benefit auction. The bidding was fast and furious, with some items selling ...

10 years ago
Kansas voters who re-elected a Republican governor known for aggressive tax cutting are learning that the state won't solve its budget problems without putting its cherished highway system in the cross hairs. Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature this past week worked out plans for closing a $344 million budget deficit by cutting education spending and ...

10 years ago
Effective safe-driving campaigns and increase in suicides have pushed firearm deaths ahead of car crashes as the leading nonmedical cause of deaths in Missouri. The Kansas City Star reports 880 people were killed by guns in Missouri in 2013, the most recent federal data available, while 781 died in car crashes. Safety advocates say some of the ...

10 years ago
The 26th Annual Caps Celebrity Benefit Auction is Saturday. CAPS Interim Executive Director Carmen San Martin tells KSAL News that the action-packed line up includes an autographed Eric Clapton Fender guitar, "It is really, really cool," she said. "The staff has been salivating over it and we had to wrap it up and keep it safe!" The 4-hour ...

10 years ago
From the Saline County Sheriff's Office: Between November 15, 2014, and January 25, 2015, a residence in the 7000 block of Frontier Road, rural Saline County, was burglarized. Items stolen from the residence include: PSE brand compound bow with a 35 pound draw weight Accessories for the bow: sight, stabilizer, rest, quiver, and (10) arrows Hewlett Packard laptop, white in ...

10 years ago
For at the last 15 months, Kansas geologist Rex Buchanan estimates, he's spent 90 percent of his time studying something once relatively rare in the state - earthquakes. He has learned a lot, said the director of the Kansas Geological Survey, whose focus in the past was primarily on water and geologic formations, including just how ...

10 years ago
Salina Police make an arrest and recover a stolen safe after a traffic stop. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an officer on patrol stopped a car driven by 31-year-old Justin Rortina of Salina, at Ohio and Pacific on Thursday night for a broken headlight. The officer recognized Rortina as a suspect in the Ray Avenue Baptist Church ...

10 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking for the driver of a car found wrecked and abandoned north of Salina. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that a 1999 Toyota Camry apparently flipped over several times in the 3100 block of North Gerard Road sometime between Thursday night at 9pm and 5am Friday morning before the ...

10 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas legislators are planning to attend a town hall meeting on the future of Fort Riley. The meeting on Feb. 9 was called to allow Army officials to hear from the community about how possible troop reductions at Fort Riley would affect them. Fort Riley employs more than 25,000 people in the ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Senate is considering a bill that would allow officials to prohibit concealed weapons in some areas of public buildings. Currently, people carrying concealed weapons must be allowed to go anywhere in public buildings where the guns are allowed. Legislation submitted by Republican Sen. Forrest Knox of Altoona would allow officials to ban weapons from some ...