10 years ago
A suburban St. Louis school district says schools will get early notice once the Ferguson grand jury reaches a decision. A letter on the Hazelwood School District's site from Superintendent Grayling Tobias says the St. Louis County prosecutor's office will alert districts 24 hours before the media if the decision is on a weekend. If it's a ...

10 years ago
A former Salina man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for fatally poisoning his wife with nicotine in 1994 and collecting on her life insurance policy. Paul Marshal Curry, formerly of Salina, was sentenced Friday for murder more than two decades after his wife, Linda Curry, died in bed. Curry was a suspect but ...

10 years ago
A new report shows that Kansas consumers seeking health insurance on the federally-run online marketplace will pay about the same next year as they did in 2014. The Kansas Health Institute, a nonpartisan health policy and research organization, released a report Saturday as the second sign up period got underway. It showed that the average premium ...

10 years ago
A federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Kansas School of Medicine did not discriminate against a disabled student when it rescinded her admission in 2011 because she could not physically meet its requirements. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals sided Friday with the university in the lawsuit brought by Emily McCulley, who suffers ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court says it will begin deliberating next week on whether to keep in place its order barring a Johnson County judge from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Written arguments in the case were due late Friday. No public hearings were scheduled. The court begins its deliberations on Monday. The state of Kansas filed ...

10 years ago
A new government report shows more Kansas farms put more acres under irrigation last year than in 2008, when the last survey was taken. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday that its survey showed 5,243 Kansas farms were irrigating 2.85 million acres of crops last year. That compares with the 2008 survey when 4,508 farms ...

10 years ago
The Saline County Republican Central Committee gathered for its biennial re-organizational meeting Thursday night. According to the organization, Clarke Sanders was re-elected to serve as the party’s Chairman for the next two years. He was first elected to the position in 2010. The committee also elected Joyce Dial of Gypsum to the position of Vice-chair, Susan Blackshere ...

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Sometime between September 1, 2014 and November 10, 2014, a fence was cut surrounding a cellular telephone tower located at 2350 West Stimmel Road, neat the I-70/I-135 interchange, rural Saline County. A copper bar inscribed “stolen, do not buy” that is used to ground the tower was stolen. The cooper bar is approximately 8” wide ...

10 years ago
Two Liberal residents died when the minivan they were riding in was hit by a trailer that came loose from a pickup truck. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 71-year-old Salvador Garcia and 68-year-old Consuelo Garcia died in the accident Thursday afternoon on a Meade County road about 12 miles north of Plains. The driver of the minivan ...

10 years ago
A proposal to merge Dodge City Community College into Fort Hays State University apparently has collapsed. The merger had sparked controversy since it was first announced this spring. Supporters said it would help the Dodge City-area economy and provide more educational opportunities. Opponents were concerned the merger would hurt the community college's educational mission and its ...

10 years ago
Riley County police have charged a man with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed and he then was in a standoff with police. The woman was found injured Thursday at the Manhattan Public Library, about four blocks from where police believe she was stabbed. Thirty-year-old Samuel Dartez of Manhattan was arrested after a four-hour standoff with ...