11 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University is now a launching pad for global learning. Through a new partnership with led2serveU - students and faculty will take their classroom on the road and touch people and places they are studying about. KWU President Dr. Matt Thompson unveiled the new service-learning initiative on campus Thursday morning, "We've created this new Wesleyan Journey ...

11 years ago
A tentative deal has been struck on lingering issues in the Kansas budget, moving legislators closer to concluding the 2014 session despite a spate of bad economic news. House and Senate negotiators finished work on the budget Thursday, including giving a pay raise for nearly 38,000 state employees and new officers at the Topeka Correctional Facility. ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man wanted for fleeing and eluding law enforcement officers. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a patrol officer attempted to pull over a car driven by 25-year-old Mathew Leach on April 7th just before 5pm. Police say he was  wanted on felony warrants. Leach sped up ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are looking for two suspects who robbed a gas station at gunpoint. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, two men entered the Pump Mart, 1118 N. 9th just before midnight on Wednesday and pointed guns at the clerk before running out of the store with an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes. Police say both men ...

11 years ago
A group of students from Ell-Saline High School wil a statewide contest. According to the Kansas SecuritiesCommission Office, high school students across the state submitted video contest entries in hopes of winning prizes for themselves and their teachers. Students who are working toward or who have received EverFi Financial Literacy Certification through participation in the Kansas ...

11 years ago
A spokesman for the Kansas prison system says the agency was already planning to review the state's execution process before a botched execution in Oklahoma. Corrections Department spokesman Jeremy Barclay said Wednesday officials will consider which drugs will be used in lethal injections and steps in administering them as an execution nears. But Barclay said an execution ...

11 years ago
Kansas House and Senate budget negotiators have begun working on a spending agreement, casting aside a bleak revenue report that could undermine a rosier economic forecast leaders are using to justify higher spending. The talks began Wednesday evening, a few hours after the state Revenue Department reported that April's tax collections totaled $92 million less than ...

11 years ago
North Salina could soon be getting a grocery store. According to Salina City Commissioner Randall Hardy, a Save-A-Lot grocery store is proposed for a vacant building that formerly housed a Dillons grocery store at 511 East Iron Avenue. There are several financial partners in the project. Included as part of it, the City of Salina will ...

11 years ago
Drought conditions and seemingly unrelenting winds this week have whipped up massive dust storms across Kansas. The National Weather Service in Dodge City said Wednesday the windiest period is now over in the state as the system moves off into the Great Lakes and northeastern United States. Blowing dust is blamed for the zero-visibility conditions ...

11 years ago
A passenger bus collided with a pickup truck in western Kansas, killing one person in the pickup and injuring several people on the bus. The patrol says the accident happened early Wednesday as the Greyhound bus and pickup truck were headed east on Interstate 70 in Trego County. Patrol spokesman Tod Hileman says investigators ...

11 years ago
A former Salina law enforcement member is stepping out for a good cause. Dean Bonawitz met with members of the media Wednesday at the Saline County Sheriff's Office to spell out his plan, "I'm walking across Kansas to raise money for cancer research," he said. It's not the first time the 69-year-old prostate cancer survivor has put ...