11 years ago
Kansas Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is thanking legislators for passage of a pay increase for certain non-judicial employees, hoping that the deal leads to resolution of other funding needs. Nuss says Wednesday during his annual State of the Judiciary address that a measure passed earlier in the day by the House would provide some salary increase ...

11 years ago
The Provost at Kansas Wesleyan University is retiring. According to the school, Dr. A. Wayne Lowen, Executive Vice President and Provost at Kansas Wesleyan University, has announced his plan to retire from his position at the end of June 2014. Dr. Lowen has ably led the university’s academic areas since his appointment in July 2010. During ...

11 years ago
Multiple guns are stolen from a truck in Brookville. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after someone removed 3 guns and more from a vehicle parked in the 600 block of Brookville. Leonard Johnson told deputies he left his truck unlocked and then found the door left open on Tuesday morning and discovered his Walther P22 ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a gun was stolen from a truck that was parked near the Hangar Indoor Sports Complex, 2720 Arnold. Police say the 2005 Dodge pickup was left unlocked and an AK-47 semi automatic rifle was stolen from the vehicle sometime Monday night between 7pm and 9pm. The rifle, valued at $500 ...

11 years ago
Police arrest a man found in the early morning hours with a hammer and flashlight. Devin Unrein, 19 of Salina was arrested Wednesday morning at 2:48am, after officers found him walking near the area where someone had just tried to break into a business. A man associated with TPJ Cycle Works, 662 E. North Street, was inside ...

11 years ago
A northeast Kansas couple has renewed a fight against an adult store along Interstate 70 west of Abilene that sells sex toys and explicit videos. Phillip Cosby spearheaded protests and sought remedies after the Lion’s Den Superstore opened in 2003. He and his wife, Cathy, moved to the Kansas City area and worked for various groups ...

11 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office is supporting a proposal to form a two-person unit in the office to investigate possible violations of the state's open meetings and open records laws. Kansas Press Association executive director Doug Anstaett told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that having an open government unit in the attorney general's office ...

11 years ago
A third generation University of Kansas Law School graduate wants to help aspiring attorneys pay for their educations. Attorney and commercial real estate investor Beau Gould of Seattle and his wife, Julie Gould, have donated $1 million to the law school. The university announced Tuesday that the money will be used to establish the Gould Family ...

11 years ago
A Fort Riley soldier is killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 22-year-old Calvin Michalak was driving a Pontiac G6 west on I 70. For an unknown reason he entered the center median and struck concrete bridge pillars. Michalak, who the patrol says was not buckled up, died at the ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has denied a Kansas military academy's request to split up a lawsuit brought by 11 former cadets alleging the school fostered a climate of abuse. Attorneys for St. John's Military School in Salina contended each ex-cadet's claims were unique and that jurors in a single trial could get confused. But U.S. District Judge John ...

11 years ago
Police release more details on the death of a 2-year-old girl after an older-model television fell on her in a Salina apartment. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, officers and medics were called to Apartment 7H at the Chapel Ridge Apartments, 2363 Chapel Ridge, at 1:39pm on Tuesday after a mother heard the sound of a ...