11 years ago
The University of Kansas Hospital will lead a team working to reduce deaths from heart attacks and strokes in western Kansas. The hospital announced Wednesday that it had received a $12.5 million, three-year federal grant to lead the effort. The hospital will work with Hays Medical Center and 10 critical access hospitals and primary care ...

11 years ago
The Junction City Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a wanted fugitive. Seventeen-year-old Marco Eugen Foreman, described as a black male standing 5’8″, weighing 140 lbs with black hair and brown eyes. Foreman walked away from a Juvenile Placement Facility in Junction City on May 23rd, 2014, and has still not been taken ...

11 years ago
Sedgwick County authorities are searching for an inmate who was accidentally released from jail. The sheriff says 33-year-old Chad Alan Engel was booked into the jail July 2 on traffic charges and a warrant from McPherson County for a drug-related conviction. The sheriff's office says in a news release that Engel was released on traffic charges on ...

11 years ago
The president of Washburn University says the school is "very safe" and sexual assault is rare on the Topeka campus. President Jerry Farley says a federal investigation into the school's handling of sexual violence stems from an alleged sexual assault involving two students. He says such cases are rare at Washburn. The U.S. Department of Education's Office ...

11 years ago
A northeast Kansas county will pay for copies of birth certificates for some voters needing to document their U.S. citizenship to register if they cannot afford to obtain the records. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew announced the policy Wednesday. Shew said he's addressing what he called an unfairness created by a state law requiring new voters ...

11 years ago
Women's rights activists in Kansas are praising a romantic comedy about abortion. Julie Burkhart, founder of Trust Women and the South Wind Women's Center, says the groups asked that the movie "Obvious Child" be shown in Wichita so the community could it. She says it is time Hollywood portrayed abortion in a more authentic way since ...

11 years ago
The Office of Inspector General for the Veterans Affairs Department has released its recommendations for improvements at the six community-based outpatient clinics across Kansas overseen by the Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita. The recommendations are based in part on a site visit to the Parsons clinic in May along with other data gathered for VA ...

11 years ago
A man convicted of murdering a Salina teenage girl back in 1984 has died while still incarcerated. According to Kansas Department of Corrections records, 72-year-old Lonnie McKibben died on Saturday. McKibben was incarcerated at the Lansing Correctional Facility. McKibben was convicted of 2nd degree murder back in 1985 in connection with the death of 15-year-old ...

11 years ago
Police make two more arrests in a vehicle burglary case that left a Union Pacific Vehicle damaged. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, officers arrested 19-year-old Seth Morgan and 18-year-old Kevin Bartholomew, both of Salina after investigators linked the two to vandalism of a truck owned by UP. Police allege the two and 16-year-old Samuel Johannes of Salina ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is transported to the hospital after being stabbed twice in the stomach. Salina Police are interviewing witnesses after a 48-year-old man was stabbed following a disturbance at an apartment complex at 501 E. Crawford. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that the wounds did not appear to be life threatening before the victim ...

11 years ago
A national gun control group argues in a federal lawsuit that a Kansas law challenging federal authority to regulate guns is unconstitutional and endangers public safety. The Washington-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed the lawsuit Wednesday against a 2013 law declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate guns manufactured, sold ...