11 years ago
Former Kansas Lt. Gov. Gary Sherrer is comparing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis to former Republican Gov. Bill Graves. The Davis campaign announced Monday that Sherrer would serve as one of its two senior economic advisers. Sherrer is a lifelong Republican who served as lieutenant governor under Graves from 1996 to 2003. Graves served two terms as ...

11 years ago
Nine international teachers will be in Kansas classrooms this fall to give students exposure to other cultures and languages. The state Department of Education began the Visiting International Teacher program in 2001. The program allows certified teachers from Spain and China to spend up to three years teaching in Kansas public schools. They typically provide instruction in ...

11 years ago
A registered sex offender who sent obscene material while he was a patient at Larned State Hospital has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced that 34-year-old Christopher Case was sentenced Monday to transferring the material. Prosecutors say Case used a cell phone to send an obscene video to a 13-year-old ...

11 years ago
Christopher Burns spends most of his working day as an area manger for Jimmy John's Restaurant - but give him 6-seconds and he'll make you laugh as Stormtrooper Sam. The movie maker who posts his work on Vine Video caught the attention of Salina Police yesterday after a customer at a downtown business got a little ...

11 years ago
Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan says June's tax collections missed estimates by $28 million, pushing the shortfall for the fiscal year that ended Monday to nearly $338 million. Preliminary figures released Monday showed Kansas collecting nearly $5.5 billion in taxes and fees in fiscal 2014. Forecasters whose projections help the state build its annual budget had ...

11 years ago
Widespread rainfall over several days in the past week has slowed the Kansas winter wheat harvest, and hail has damaged the crops in the northwest part of the state. The National Agricultural Statistics Serve reported Monday that 40 percent of the wheat crop has now been cut, well behind the average of 66 percent in late ...

11 years ago
The July 4th holiday is this week, and the Kansas Highway Patrol has some important enforcement initiatives that motorists should be aware of. Beginning July 1, and lasting through July 10, the Patrol will be conducting a texting enforcement initiative. Troopers will be out looking for drivers who are violating Kansas’ texting law, and will ...

11 years ago
Police continue to investigate after someone fired a high-powered rifle in the 500 block of West Beloit last Thursday night. Captain Mike Sweeney says police confirmed at least 5 rounds were fired - one narrowly missed a woman who was asleep in her bed. Captain Sweeney tells KSAL News one of the rounds went through a mattress ...

11 years ago
A rural Saline County man returns home to find tires and rims missing from his garage. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, Adam Branstetter returned to his house in the 5000 block of N. Leisure Road to discover someone had entered the locked garage and removed four Typhoon brand silver, aluminum rims plus a pair of tires. ...

11 years ago
Police are searching for two suspects involved in a residential burglary that occurred on Saturday morning. Willis Brull, 86, of 803 E. Minneapolis reported that two Hispanic males knocked on his door around 9 am asking to be shown where his property line ends. Brull and his wife walked with the males out back to discuss the ...

11 years ago
A concerned citizen's call to police leads to an arrest in a string of vehicle burglaries. Officers were sent to the area of Santa Fe and Wilson Friday morning around 5:30am after a person told police they saw a man was acting suspicious and going through cars. Police arrested 20-year-old Tyler Base in the 2000 block of ...