11 years ago
A much larger than anticipated crowd showed up at an event Tuesday evening to learn about a vision of a revitalized Salina Downtown. Organizers had anticipated about 20 or so people showing up. Instead, there were over 200 who gathered at the Salina Community Theatre to learn about what city manager Jason Gage said was ...

11 years ago
A Kansas Senate committee is considering a new education funding plan that would tie some state aid to public schools to how well students do after high school. The Senate Education Committee had a hearing Tuesday on a plan drafted by Chairman and Arkansas City Republican Steve Abrams. He said his goal is to focus public ...

11 years ago
A Lawrence man was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison for marketing synthetic marijuana and other designer drugs around the world. Bradley Miller was sentenced Monday after admitting he conspired with his brother, Clark Sloan, and his brother's son, Jonathan, to manufacture and sell the drugs. Federal prosecutors say the men's business started at ...

11 years ago
Police in the Kansas City suburb of Lenexa, Kansas, say a man has been arrested on suspicion of injuring three children, damaging vehicles and threatening people with what turned out to be a pellet gun. Police said in a statement that the man was arrested Monday after officers fielded reports of an armed suspect throwing ...

11 years ago
The Cherokee County sheriff says the death of a Texas woman whose body was found in a field is considered suspicious. Sheriff David Groves says the body of 35-year-old Shannon Fonda, of Midland, Texas, was found Monday near Scammom in southeast Kansas. Groves says an autopsy will determine her cause of death. He says investigators are not ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has proclaimed Wednesday as Military Appreciation Day in Kansas. Brownback said in a statement Monday that the goal of his proclamation is to better recognize the men and women of the U.S. armed forces. Brownback plans to meet with his military council Wednesday in Topeka after signing the proclamation. The governor is expected to ...

11 years ago
The Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature is considering proposals to restrict public employee unions and potentially shrink the state's civil service. GOP lawmakers who support the changes up for debate Tuesday argue that they'll give state agencies more flexibility and allow them to operate more like private companies. Critics see an attack on public employee unions that often support ...

11 years ago
Additional charges have been filed against a Topeka man accused of shooting at motorists on a highway. 51-year-old Cory Huff originally was charged with attempted intentional second-degree murder, discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle and reckless driving. Jackson County Attorney Shawna Miller has filed an amended complaint to add two more counts of attempted second-degree ...

11 years ago
Authorities were investigating in a rural area of Dickinson County Monday after what appeared to be human remains were discovered. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is assisting Dickinson County authorities, including the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, in an investigation. A spokesperson from the KBI told KSAL News that possible human remains were discovered Sunday afternoon. The ...

11 years ago
A doctor who was bitten by a shark while vacationing in Hawaii is recovering at home in Kansas. KCTV reports 58-year-old Ken Grasing of Overland Park suffered deep cuts to his left forearm and a gash on his left thigh when he was bitten by a tiger shark while snorkeling with his sons in Hawaii last ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a residential burglary. Police say the owner came home to his house in the 500 block of S. College on Sunday afternoon to find his backdoor open and several high-tech items gone. Police say a 55-inch flat screen TV, 32-inch TV, stereo receiver, DVD player, computer and monitor plus 6 DVDs were ...