11 years ago
Visitors will be allowed to bring concealed guns into the Kansas Statehouse beginning in July unless legislative leaders intervene. Top lawmakers were reviewing the issue at a meeting Thursday. If they don't act this month, holders of concealed carry permits will be able to enter the building with their weapons. The Republican-dominated Legislature enacted a law last ...

11 years ago
A new residence hall at Kansas State University is being named to honor Jon Wefald, the university's president from July 1986 to June 2009. The university says Wefald Hall will be the first residence hall built on the school's main campus since Haymaker Hall in 1967. Construction is scheduled to begin in September, with the building ...

11 years ago
The winter wheat harvest is picking up over a big chunk of Kansas. The industry group Kansas Wheat reports farmers were cutting Wednesday all across southern Kansas and a across a central swath extending almost to the Nebraska border. Group spokesman Marsha Boswell says growers in northeast and northwest Kansas have not yet begun harvesting, but farmers ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Board of Regents is raising tuition and fees at state universities this fall by as much as 5.7 percent for some students. The board approved proposals Wednesday from the six state universities and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. But the regents said increases in the tuition ...

11 years ago
A Salina teen is in custody on drug charges. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 17-year-old Quintavian Hill was arrested after police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in his vehicle Tuesday evening during a stop for a traffic violation in the 600 block of West Crawford. Police say a traffic officer noticed the strong odor of marijuana coming ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a couple of vehicle burglaries. Police report that someone entered an unlocked 2006 Dodge Caravan that was parked in a drive in the 2500 block of Angus during the overnight hours between Monday and Tuesday, and stole numerous items. The owner told officers her Louis Vuitton purse valued at $1,300 plus a ...

11 years ago
A single vehicle crash in a construction zone on Interstate 70 in Dickinson County slowed traffic Wednesday morning. According to the Kansas Department of Transportation, shortly after 8:00 Wednesday morning a semi tractor-trailer lost control and went off the highway in the work zone on I-70 near the Jeep Road Interchange. Damaged guardrail was removed ...

11 years ago
Counterfeit bills are found in two recent bank deposits. Salina Police report that a counterfeit $20 bill was discovered by staff at the Sunflower Bank branch on North Santa Fe on Tuesday. The fake bill was used to purchase food at Burger King on E. Iron. Sunflower Bank employees on South Ohio also discovered a counterfeit $100 ...

11 years ago
A 14-year-old boy was hit by a car on a busy Salina street while riding his bicycle home from a football workout Wednesday morning. The accident happened just after 9:30 on South Ohio Street. Salina Police at the scene told KSAL News that the bicycle rider was on the west side of Ohio, headed east, crossing ...

11 years ago
A Manhattan man is hurt in a crash on Interstate 70 that was caught on video and has gone viral. According to the Kansas Higway Patrol, 41-year-old Greg Harris of Manhattan was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee headed west. For an unknown reason he drove onto the north shoulder. He hit a trailer, and an unattended ...

11 years ago
A nonprofit group that supports small farms in Kansas will hold two public "Farm-to-Fork" summits next week. The Kansas Rural Center says the events will take place June 24 at the American Legion in Concordia and June 25 at the Colby Community Building in Colby. Both run from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Author Jane Marshall will ...