11 years ago
A coalition that's being formed to promote the use of alternative fuels is inviting businesses, groups and individuals to attend a meeting in downtown Wichita later this month. The Wichita Eagle reports Central Kansas Clean Cities is one of about 100 such groups across the country formed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean ...

11 years ago
The president of a south-central school board has been elected to the leadership of the Kansas Association of School Boards. A recent delegate assembly in Wichita chose Don Shimkus, of Oxford, as the association's president-elect designee. He will begin serving as president-elect on July 1 and serve as president on July 1, 2015. Shimkus says he will ...

11 years ago
Demolition of Kansas Wesleyan's historic Glenn Martin Stadium will begin on Thursday, January 9, as the university celebrates the beginning of a new era on campus and commemorates the stadium, which was completed in 1940, but has not been utilized for KWU games since 2007. The public is invited to attend a short program beginning at ...

11 years ago
A northeast Kansas woman who spent the year after her 40th birthday performing 40 acts of goodness to honor people who made a mark in her life is inspiring others. The Kansas City Star reports that Tami Greenberg of Prairie Village called her project "A Year of Being 40 and Grateful." The Star's story about her moved ...

11 years ago
Two Kansas City, Kan., men are among three people convicted by a federal jury of being part of a $28 million drug trafficking conspiracy. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's office says 36-year-old Marvin Lee Ellis of Kansas City was convicted Friday of eight counts, including seven related to possessing or distributing crack cocaine and one count of ...

11 years ago
It has been decades since parts of the Midwest experienced a deep freeze like the one expected to arrive Sunday, with potential record-low temperatures heightening fears of frostbite and hypothermia even in a region where residents are accustomed to bundling up. In Kansas, including the Salina area, temperatures are expected to dip to single digits with ...

11 years ago
The subzero cold being predicted for the Plains next week threatens to damage winter wheat across Nebraska and Kansas in places with little snow cover to protect crops. Low temperatures of minus 5 to minus 15 are forecast for the region by Monday. The Maryland-based commodity risk firm MDA Weather Services says that some freeze damage is ...

11 years ago
Caleb Stegall, Gov. Sam Brownback's former chief legal counsel, has been sworn in as a judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals. Stegall took the oath of office Friday before a large audience in the Supreme Court chambers with his wife, Ann, holding a Bible. He fills a new, 14th seat on the state's second-highest court. Stegall's ...

11 years ago
UPDATE 6:50 PM: A Lawrence disc jockey whose friends reported him missing has been found dead on the grounds of a northeast Kansas park. The manager of Clinton State Park says that that a body found Friday morning has been identified as that of 26-year-old Michael Packard. No information was released about the cause of death, but ...

11 years ago
The Health Department is now a stand alone Saline County agency. Saline County Commissioner John Price stopped in during the third hour of the KSAL Morning News Friday with a closer look at what lies ahead. "There's a lot that has happened in the past, and a lot of hard feelings but I think the Health ...

11 years ago
Kansas Department of Transportation officials are reporting a drop in the number of traffic fatalities in 2013 to 344 deaths, the lowest number since statistics were first kept in 1947. KDOT says in a news release Friday that the previous low was 385 fatalities in 2008. The highest number of deaths was 780, in 1969. The numbers ...