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A former executive of the firm managing part of the privatized Medicaid program in Kansas has asked a judge to toss out counterclaims accusing her of trying to extort $3 million. Sunflower State Health Plan Inc. and parent Centene Corporation made the extortion claims last month while responding to the federal lawsuit filed in October by ...

10 years ago
Kansas geologists say they need more funding to investigate an unprecedented spike in earthquakes in the state. Kansas Geological Survey Director Rex Buchanan told the House Energy and Environment Committee on Monday that about half a million dollars is needed to beef up seismic monitoring. The agency recorded 206 earthquakes in 2013 and 2014 after detecting ...

10 years ago
National anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is urging Kansas legislators to reject Gov. Sam Brownback's proposals to increase the state's tobacco and alcohol taxes to help close state budget shortfalls. Norquist sent a letter Monday to legislators, saying the proposed tax increases would hurt poor and working-class taxpayers the most. Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a vehicle burglary. Police say numerous items were taken from an unlocked 2013 Ford pickup that was parked in the lot at the Salina Red Cross Building, 145 S. Broadway on Friday between 11am and 11:40am. The owner, Steve Ade of rural Salina told officers that someone removed a Ruger-Sturm .22 caliber revolver ...

10 years ago
A Kansas House committee is working on a proposal to expand the state's Medicaid program to capture additional federal dollars promised by the federal health care overhaul. The Vision 2020 Committee heard testimony Monday in favor of expanding Medicaid from the Kansas Hospital Association and the state's largest health system, Via Christi. Committee Chairman and Lawrence Republican ...

10 years ago
Police are hoping a business surveillance video will help them catch a man suspected in multiple break-ins. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that video from the Little Angels Playground, located at 200 W. Key, shows a white male in a dark jacket and ski mask shattering the glass door early Saturday morning. Investigators believe he's tied ...

10 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking for a known suspect in a theft case. According to Lt. Sean Kochanowski, numerous items were removed from a home in the 7400 block of W. Frontier Road during a time frame that spanned several months between November 15, 2014 and January 18, 2015. Deputies say a laptop computer, a ...

10 years ago
A man and woman are transported to the hospital after a motorcycle collides with a car. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that 22-year-old Timothy J. Smith and 21-year-old Alejandra Browne were taken to Salina Regional Health Center after a two vehicle crash near the Bicentennial Center on Saturday night. Police say Smith had leg injuries while ...

10 years ago
The University of Kansas received nearly twice as many sexual assault complaints in 2014 than the year before. School officials attribute the increase to improved awareness of the crime. The school's Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access says it received 169 complaints last year, compared with 85 in 2013. IOA Executive Director Jane McQueeny says 120 of ...

10 years ago
Some members of a class that donated a Thomas Hart Benton painting to a Shawnee Mission school in the 1950s are wondering where the gift is being kept. The district says it has the painting, called "Utah Highlands," but it isn't saying where. The district's spokeswoman says the location is being kept secret for security reasons ...

10 years ago
As the east coast prepares for a blizzard that is expected to drop record snowfall amounts in some areas, record warmth is possible in the midwest. According to the National Weather Service, record setting high temperatures will overspread the area Monday and Tuesday. Highs in the 70s will be possible for locations along and west of Interstate ...