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Three military officers have been chosen for induction into the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College International Hall of Fame at Fort Leavenworth. The officers were selected for their career accomplishments following completion of the advanced military studies program at the northeast Kansas post. They will be inducted during a ceremony May 1. The honorees are ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has been met on a trip to western Kansas by public school teachers and retired teachers protesting a new state law eliminating tenure. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1k7xLJl ) Brownback traveled Wednesday to the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays to re-enact his previous signing of a bill naming two official state ...

11 years ago
A mother testifies about the last days of her young daughter's life at a murder trial in Salina for the man accused of killing her. Robin Harrington told jurors how her 18-month-old daughter Bre'Elle transformed from an active child to a lethargic one in the days before she died in April of 2012. 27-year-old Troy Love, ...

11 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed legislation nullifying city and county gun restrictions and ensuring that it's legal across the state to openly carry firearms. The governor announced his action Wednesday. The new law will take effect July 1. The National Rifle Association has described it as a model for stripping local officials of their gun-regulating ...

11 years ago
Kansas is joining a proposed compact with other states hoping to exempt themselves from the federal health care overhaul. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback announced Wednesday that he signed a compact bill passed by the GOP-dominated Legislature earlier this month. The new law takes effect July 1. The compact would let participating states remove themselves from all federal ...

11 years ago
A Fort Riley soldier has admitted that he accepted disability payments he wasn't eligible to receive. The U.S. Attorney's office says in a statement that 37-year-old James Scott Nickerson pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of making a false official statement to a federal agency. Prosecutors say in October 2009, Nickerson applied for disability benefits under the ...

11 years ago
Thieves grab hi-tech items and jewelry from a home west of Salina. Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary in the 6000 block of West State Street that occurred sometime between 12:35pm and 5:25pm on Tuesday. Deputies say the homeowner returned to find his garage door open and house ransacked. Numerous items were stolen including a 60-inch ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of two trailers from motel lots. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a trailer with a riding mower and trailer with 2 ATVs on board were both stolen during the early morning hours on Tuesday. Police say a Dixon Z TR riding mower valued at $4,500 was tethered to a ...

11 years ago
An 11-year-old Salina boy is arrested after allegedly threatening a group of children with a knife. Officers were called to the playground at Coronado Elementary, 518 E. Neal, on Tuesday evening at 6:30pm after an argument turned violent. Police say the boy pulled out a butterfly knife with a 4-inch blade and waved it at the group, ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a county commissioner from western Kansas died when his plane crashed while he was crop dusting. The patrol says 67-year-old Don Cates, a Barton County commissioner from Claflin, died Tuesday afternoon when his ultralight, single-engine plane hit a power line and crashed into a ditch just northwest of Garfield in Pawnee ...

11 years ago
Kansas is starting later than initially planned with a new online portal for taking applications for driver's education permits from young residents. The Department of Revenue expects the portal to be available May 5. The department previously planned to have it available April 1. Department spokeswoman Jeanine Koranda said Tuesday the delay was caused by last-minute improvements ...