11 years ago
A Salina man is sentenced to probation in connection with child exploitation crimes. The case stems from the 2012 arrest of 33-year-old Joel Beets. He was arrested as part of an investigation by Salina police and the Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children task force. Beets was in Saline County District Court Friday morning for sentencing. Assistant Saline ...

11 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed abortion legislation addressing legal issues raised in state and federal lawsuits filed by abortion providers. Brownback announced his action Friday. The changes take effect next week. Abortion opponents have said the bill makes minor changes in existing laws without setting new policy. Planned Parenthood remained neutral on it. The bill revises a ...

11 years ago
A spokeswoman says departing U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is not considering running for the U.S. Senate. HHS spokeswoman Dori Salcido said in an email to The Associated Press that Sebelius is continuing her work at the federal agency and isn't considering a Senate campaign. Sebelius announced April 11 that she was stepping down ...

11 years ago
Governor Sam Brownback has indefinitely extended a ban on expanding Medicaid in Kansas under the federal health care overhaul. Brownback on Friday signed a bill approved by the GOP-dominated Legislature to keep the ban in place. The governor and other Republicans have been strong critics of the 2010 federal health care law. A ban included in budget ...

11 years ago
A former six-term Kansas House member who was appointed in December to the state's Supreme Court Nominating Commission has died in an ultralight plane crash near his hometown. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports 69-year-old Donald Dahl was flying at low altitude at 1:45 p.m. Friday when he ran into a tree branch 2 miles south ...

11 years ago
Two people avoid going to trial by pleading to their involvement in a Salina murder. Friday morning in Saline County District Court, 25-year-old Joel Heil plead guilty to first degree murder and attempted robbery charges, while 21-year-old Megan Wells plead no contest to a charge of obstruction. Last week, 33-year-old Dane DeWeese was found guilty of ...

11 years ago
Salina Police say a rumor that began Friday morning about guns and ammunition being found in a locker, or in a locker room, at Salina Central High School is not true. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that no weapons or ammunition were found at the the school. He says no new information has been received about ...

11 years ago
A a forklift attachment is stolen from the park. Salina Police are investigating after the bucket teeth for a Bobcat Skid Steer loader was taken from a work site in Kenwood Park. Police say someone removed an attachment that is owned by Davin Electric of Topeka, from the park sometime between April 10th and April ...

11 years ago
Known in the aviation world as icons in flight training, John and Martha King brought their education expertise to Kansas State University Salina during a campus visit on Friday, April 11. The Kings, who are co-owners of King Schools in San Diego, Calif., met with faculty members and representatives from Textron Aviation to discuss the potential ...

11 years ago
Some parents in the Topeka are asking the school district to reconsider plans to have first lady Michelle Obama speak at a graduation ceremony. The school district announced Thursday that the first lady would speak at a ceremony May 17, the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision that ...

11 years ago
A central Kansas camp will remain closed into the fall after a fire heavily damaged the dining hall. The cause of Saturday's fire at Camp Aldrich in Barton County is still under investigation. Joe Vinduska, spokesman for Barton Community College, which owns the camp, says investigators determined the camp is unsafe for the public. The ...