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Gov. Sam Brownback has announced changes to a mental health clinic in Kansas City, Kan., and the Osawatomie State Hospital. The governor said Thursday that 111 positions previously located at the Rainbow Mental Health Facility in Kansas City, Kan., are being permanently moved to the Osawatomie hospital. Rainbow Mental Health will become a 24/7 crisis stabilization center ...

11 years ago
Teachers in a southwest Kansas school district have joined teachers in four other districts in leaving the state's main teachers union. Teachers in Spearville, which is near Dodge City, voted on Wednesday to leave the Kansas National Education Association. They will join the Association of American Educators, which provides services but does not bargain for ...

11 years ago
Security has been increased at Lawrence City Hall after some city commission members received threatening emails. Commissioner Bob Schumm says the emails arrived about three weeks ago from a resident upset with a proposed rental licensing and inspection program. He says the threats included going to commission members' homes with a gun. Two uniformed police officers now ...

11 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is backing a bill that would exclude the lesser prairie chicken from federal protection. Kobach told the Senate Natural Resources Committee on Thursday that the bill would likely lead to a legal battle that pits state rights against federal law. The bill would assert state sovereignty over non-migratory wildlife and ...

11 years ago
A suburban Kansas City dinner theater had to cancel its opening night of the play "Harvey" after a disgruntled Judge Reinhold resigned from the production. New Theatre co-owner Richard Carrothers told The Kansas City Star the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Beverly Hills Cop" star had appeared increasingly unhappy with everything related to the production. The ...

11 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback took a field trip to a suburban school district as he kicked off a campaign to build support for his plan to increase state funding of all-day kindergarten. The Republican governor dined Thursday with students at Roesland Elementary School in the Shawnee Mission school district before chatting with teachers, students and parents. Currently, ...

11 years ago
Progressive and labor union activists are promising sustained protests against Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and multiple policies pursued by him and other Republicans. Nearly 200 people participated Thursday in a Statehouse rally staged by the Wichita-based group Kansas People's Action. Speakers included labor, environmental and community activists. They later converged on Brownback's office, giving a staff member ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee's chairman is promoting a series of measures aimed at making the courts more efficient in response to a budget-focused address by the state Supreme Court's chief justice. Independence Republican Jeff King sent Chief Justice Lawton Nuss a letter Thursday, a day after Nuss gave the annual State of the Judiciary address. ...

11 years ago
A Wichita hotel that is hosting the state's Republican convention has decided to allow participants to bring their guns if they want, despite signs saying firearms aren't allowed. Butler County Republican Party chairwoman Debbie Luper told party members in an email that Hyatt Regency Hotel has agreed to relax its gun ban for the ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are warning trailer, ATV and motorcycle owners to be aware of an uptick in sports vehicle thefts around the area. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that thefts in Salina and surrounding counties has increased. "During the last six months we have noticed an increased amount of vehicles - particularly trucks, motorcycles, ATV and ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a burglary after thieves enter a residential garage and steal a computer. Police report someone walked into an unlocked attached garage in the 600 block of Briarcliff last week in the overnight hours between January 16th and January 17th. Once inside they went through a 1994 Lexus and removed a backpack and LeNovo ...