11 years ago
What a difference a day makes. After a high temperature near 70 on Tuesday, Central Kansas woke up to freezing drizzle and freezing temperatures Wednesday. According to the National Weather Service, it will be bitterly cold for the rest of the week week as an arctic airmass moves into central and eastern Kansas. After a ...

11 years ago
To say that new academic standards have yielded strange bedfellows would be an understatement. Republicans are fighting Republicans. Teacher unions are linking arms with tea partyers. President Barack Obama is working in tandem with big business. When it comes to Common Core, forget the old allegiances. Traditionally Democratic-leaning groups don't like the standardized tests and are finding allies ...

11 years ago
Somebody in southeast Kansas doesn't understand the concept of borrowing from a public library. The Cherokee County News-Advocate reports burglars broke into the Columbus Public Library twice in the past week, making off with cash and computers. Columbus Police Department spokeswoman Ann Sharp says the first break-in occurred sometime between the library's closing the day before Thanksgiving ...

11 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is scheduled to give his annual State of the State address Jan. 15. Brownback announced Tuesday that he had accepted an invitation from House Speaker Ray Merrick to address a joint legislative session on that date in the House chamber. The speech will come two days after lawmakers open their 2014 session. The ...

11 years ago
A 22-year-old man is returning to court after being charged with capital murder in the deaths of a southeast Kansas mother and her three children. Wednesday afternoon's hearing in Labette County District Court comes a day after Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office filed a complaint against David Cornell Bennett Jr. of Cherryvale. Schmidt's office also charged ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has again certified the Salina Police Department to send criminal statistics and incident reports via a digital format. SPD's Technical Support Supervisor Arlene Frederiksen tells KSAL News that the police department has been sending stats in a bundle of  paper to the K.B.I. through the mail over the past two years. Frederiksen ...

11 years ago
Kansas State Troopers had a busy Thanksgiving weekend. The Kansas Highway Patrol Tuesday released its Thanksgiving holiday activity. The reporting period for the holiday weekend ran from 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 1, 2013. During that time, the Patrol worked two fatal crashes, which resulted in two deaths. ...

11 years ago
A Salina man gets federal prison time in connection with a child pornography case. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, 32-year-old Justin S. Tatum has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography. Tatum pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing child pornography, related to two different investigations. In ...

11 years ago
Junction City police say a person was shot to death during a home invasion. A second person at the apartment suffered minor injuries and declined treatment. Junction City police Lt. Jeff Childs said in a news release that police and emergency medical personnel found the two people after they were called to the apartment early ...

11 years ago
After another mild day on Tuuesday, a big change in the weather is on the way. According to the National Weather Service, Central and Southeast Kansas will squeak out one more mild day before very cold Arctic air overspreads the area Wednesday into Thursday. It will feel more like Winter later in the week with some ...

11 years ago
University of Kansas police are looking for a man who reportedly tried to lure a 9-year-old boy into his car on the university campus. Police say the boy was on his way home Monday when the man tried to talk him into getting into the vehicle. The boy ran home and told his parents. The man is ...