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Local law enforcement is heading back to school - to encourage students to buckle up. Saline County Sheriff's Office Prevention Deputy Scott Trembly tells KSAL News that beginning next week deputies will be extra vigilant when patrolling around schools. "We'll be looking for those occupants who are not wearing seatbelts," he said. Beginning Monday, February 24th and ...

11 years ago
Architect Frank Gehry is maintaining key elements of his design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, despite criticism from a federal arts panel and outside groups. Gehry's Los Angeles-based team presented revisions Thursday to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. But the changes were limited to the landscape, adding 74 trees ...

11 years ago
The newly released 2012 Census of Agriculture shows the number of Kansas farms has decreased but those that remain are larger. The National Agriculture Statistics Service reported Thursday that the average number of farms in Kansas in 2012 was 61,773. That is down 6 percent from the 2007 census. Kansas had 46.1 million acres of ...

11 years ago
Careless smoking is blamed as a cause to a fire early Thursday morning in Salina. According to the Salina Fire Department, at 5:15 in the morning crews responded to a house fire at 507 N. 12th. In a news release Fire Inspector Troy Long said “the occupants inside the home were alerted to the fire by a ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that sometime between 11:20 in the morning and 12:27 in the afternoon, a home at 420 East Otis was broken into. Forced entry was made via a window. Items taken include an X-Box 360 video game system, a game controller, and three games. A lock ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are facing another push to phase in sales of strong beer, wine and liquor at grocery and convenience stores. The House commerce committee had a hearing Wednesday on a bill to allow liquor store owners to sell their licenses to other retailers in the same county, starting in July 2015. Kansas currently allows groceries and ...

11 years ago
A new atlas published by the Kansas Biological Survey provides information about the health of nearly 80 lakes and reservoirs around the state. The 240-page document compiles data and observations by the survey staff over more than a decade. It includes information about the condition of the lakes, how quickly they may be filling with sediment, ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has warned a Canadian man convicted of identity theft against filing any more legal actions against people who testified against him in the criminal case. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten stopped short Wednesday of issuing the formal injunction sought by prosecutors against 58-year-old Leslie Camick, but noted the denial was provisional for ...

11 years ago
A 31-year-old Wichita man is charged with first-degree murder in the death of an employee of Steckline Communications. Antwon D. Banks Sr. was charged Wednesday in the Feb. 9 death of 25-year-old Daniel Flores. Banks made his first appearance in Sedgwick County District Court Wednesday via a video link from Sedgwick County Jail, where he is being ...

11 years ago
A Kansas House committee has approved a resolution protesting President Barack Obama's plan on climate change after stripping out language suggesting the science behind it is flawed. The Energy and Environment Committee's voice vote Tuesday sends the measure to the House for debate. The nonbinding resolution says the plan released by the president last year would harm ...

11 years ago
A Kansas House committee is preparing to consider legislation that would bar use of the Common Core standards for reading and math in public schools. The bill scheduled for a hearing Wednesday by the House Education Committee would also create an advisory group to help develop new guidelines for teaching those subjects. It's the latest attempt by ...