10 years ago
Inauguration of Baker University's new president has been postponed so the school can deal with the death of a student. President Lynne Murray was supposed to celebrate her inauguration at 11 a.m. Thursday, but that and related events were canceled after she learned of the death of sophomore Sione Maumau. Murray gave brief remarks at an all-university ...

10 years ago
Hutchinson police say a worker at a recycling company has died after being struck by a piece of machinery. Officers say the death of 29-year-old Joshua Tracy of Hutchinson is being treated as an industrial accident. The employee of MidWest Iron & Metal was taken by an ambulance to a Hutchinson hospital with trauma injuries from ...

10 years ago
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says a federal prosecutor will be on duty election day to respond promptly to complaints of possible election fraud and voting rights violations in Kansas. Grissom says in a news release that anyone who has evidence of possible electoral corruption or voting rights abuses on Tuesday should call his office. Prosecutors across the ...

10 years ago
Officials believe the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a flight-training building at Wichita's airport is among the four people who were killed. Wichita Fire Chief Ronald Blackwell confirmed that three of the dead were inside the building when the plane crashed into it Thursday at the Mid-Continent Airport. Blackwell said the fourth victim ...

10 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach predicts turnout for Tuesday's elections will be about 50 percent, even without more than 20,000 people on a suspended voters list because they haven't provided proof of citizenship. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kobach on Thursday predicted about 872,000 people will vote out of about 1.74 million registered voters. The prediction ...

10 years ago
The GOP "Clean Sweep" bus tour rolled into Salina Thursday afternoon. The brightly colored bus is rolling across the state, carrying Republican candidates for state and federal offices on the campaign trail. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback was first off the bus when it stopped at Salina's Oakdale Park. He tells KSAL News the tour is important ...

10 years ago
A 57-year-old Kansas man found unresponsive in the ocean off Maui had died at a hospital. Maui police say Michael R. Higgins of Lenexa was spotted at about noon Wednesday in water off Keawekapu Beach Park in Kihei . Maui emergency responders administered CPR on the beach. Higgins was taken in critical condition to Maui Memorial Medical Center. ...

10 years ago
A purse is stolen during a fashion show. Salina Police are investigating after a Coach brand purse and its contents are stolen from a table at the Ambassador Hotel, 1616 W. Crawford, on Sunday afternoon. Morea Charvat of Marquette told officers that she was attending a fashion show and placed her black leather bag on a table ...

10 years ago
A Salina woman who was injured in a two vehicle crash dies at the hospital. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, 88-year-old Lila Breault died Thursday morning at Salina Regional Health Center. On Tuesday afternoon, Breault was driving southbound on Roach Street in a 1990 Buick Century, when for an unknown reason her car collided with a ...

10 years ago
A plane has crashed at Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport Thursday morning. A twin engine Beechcraft King Air lost an engine on takeoff and crashed into the two story Flight Safety building located on South Airport Road. The plane was trying to return to the runway. At least four people were killed, and four others were transported to ...

10 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is facing new questions about his administration's overhaul of the Medicaid program in Kansas as his close race for re-election nears its end. Brownback said Wednesday that the overhauled program known as KanCare is working well for the needy and disabled Kansas residents who receive health coverage under it. Democratic challenger Paul Davis ...