11 years ago
Salina Police will be out in force Friday evening looking for seat belt violations. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that four officers and one spotter will be patrolling from 9pm Friday to 1am Saturday, looking for occupants who are not buckled up. Citations for unrestrained adults are $10 while the citation for children under 18-years old ...

11 years ago
The University of Kansas says a $16 million gift will help build a hall in the university's planned Earth, Energy and Environment Center. The university announced the gift Thursday from the family of Donald Slawson, a Wichita resident who died July 7. He graduated from the university in 1955 and founded Slawson Exploration, becoming a leader ...

11 years ago
A legislative committee says internal legislator requests for audits of various state interests are being delayed because of a lack of auditors. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 25 legislator requests for internal audits have been delayed because the auditors don't have the resources to get to them. One factor in the slowdown is a 2013 law that ...

11 years ago
A Stihl chainsaw was taken from a storage shed in New Cambria. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that someone entered an unlocked storage shed in the 3000 block E. Spillman Road sometime between July 21st and July 23rd. A $400 Stihl chainsaw and case were the only items removed from the shed.

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of a credit card. Police say a 74-year old woman reported the theft of her Lowe's credit card after she lost her wallet at Braums on W. Crawford earlier this month. On July 14th the Lowe's credit card was used to purchase a $189 Dewalt drill and an unused $500 gift ...

11 years ago
A Topeka official says United Airlines will end flights between the Kansas capital and Chicago on Sept. 2. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority President Eric Johnson made the announcement Wednesday. There have been twice-daily flights since January. Topeka will have no regularly scheduled commercial flights. Before the United service started, the last commercial ...

11 years ago
Nearly 60,000 Kansans will share more than $3.6 million in insurance reimbursements under a provision of the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in a statement Wednesday that the provision requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on patient care and quality improvement. If more ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a construction worker died after being hit by a trash truck in Reno County. The accident Tuesday on Kansas 61 killed 22-year-old Dylan Joseph Snyder of Kansas City, Missouri. Snyder was removing construction cones when he was hit. The patrol says before the truck hit Snyder, it rear-ended one vehicle and sideswiped ...

11 years ago
Federal prosecutors say an Augusta couple stole more than $1.5 million from a Wichita company that owns assisted living centers in Kansas and Missouri. The U.S. attorney's office in Wichita says 43-year-old Brent Shryock and his 50-year-old ex-wife, Lori Shryock, were indicted Wednesday with four counts of mail fraud. ...

11 years ago
The Great Plains Theatre in Abilene was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. As of 9 PM, the cause of the fire was unknown. Approximately 50 firefighters responded to the blaze including units from Abilene, Salina and Grant Township in Dickinson County.  As a pre-cautionary measure, residents were evacuated from an apartment building located just to the west ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is urging wind-energy advocates and critics of a renewable-energy requirement for Kansas utilities to work on a compromise for the policy's future. The governor made remarks Wednesday in an impromptu meeting with Statehouse reporters suggesting that he supported phasing out the renewable energy rule. But hours later, spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the governor was ...