11 years ago
Salina city commissioners have rejected a request to spend more than $15,000 on artwork for a new bridge. The commissioners turned down the request Monday from Community Art and Design and Salina Arts and Humanities for the new Greeley Avenue Bridge. Mayor Barb Shirley and three commissioners said they didn't feel the bridge warranted art. Commissioner Randall ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a rural burglary and theft. Deputies were called to a home in the 1200 block of North Powers Road on Monday after the owner discovered that his new Toro Zero-Turn mower was missing from an outbuilding. Deputies say a 2003 Honda racing ATV, valued at $2,600 was also stolen sometime ...

11 years ago
Shawnee County authorities say a Silver Lake man died in an apparent accident while mowing. The body of 52-year-old Bernie M. Menhusen was found Monday night pinned beneath a riding lawn mower. Shawnee County sheriff's Lt. Jay Simecka says Menhusen was dead at the scene. Simecka says the sheriff's office was called about 10 ...

11 years ago
Wichita officials say the city's website was hacked during the weekend, potentially compromising the personal information of 29,000 vendors and employees. The city said in a news release late Monday the hackers might have gained access to Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers and banking information of vendors and former and current employees who were reimbursed ...

11 years ago
Health-care executives and advocates are getting the chance to tell lawmakers what they dislike about the state's managed care plan for Medicaid. A legislative oversight committee met Monday to gather updates on how the program is working and guide legislative fixes. A second meeting also is planned. The program has been criticized for delays in reimbursing providers ...

11 years ago
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts may be getting a primary challenge in his bid for re-election. Milton Wolf is inviting supporters on his website to a "major announcement" Tuesday evening regarding the 2014 GOP Kansas Senate campaign. The 42-year-old Johnson County doctor is expected to say he's moving ahead with a GOP primary challenge to Roberts, who's ...

11 years ago
Attorneys for parents and school districts are facing off against lawyers for the state in front of the Kansas Supreme Court over the funding of public schools. Tuesday's hearing is the second such court battle in less than a decade. At issue is whether the seven-member court will uphold a lower-court ruling issued in January ordering ...

11 years ago
All but five of the 772 Kansas National Guard airmen and soldiers who were furloughed last week because of the partial federal government shutdown are being called back to work. The Kansas adjutant general's office says Monday that the recalls come after the Department of Defense issued guidance over the weekend regarding which employees were covered ...

11 years ago
Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo says "this is the moment" to reduce the size of government. The Republican from Wichita made the comments Monday as he tries to shore up support back home for taking a conservative hard-line against reopening government or raising the debt ceiling without spending cuts. Speaking outside a Rotary Club, Pompeo says he would ...

11 years ago
A man walking across the country with a goat made a stop in Downtown Salina Monday. Steve Wescott set off on in May from the Space Needle in Seattle. Now, he's crossing through Kansas with his pack goat Leeroy as he makes his way toward Times Square in New York City. He made a pit stop ...

11 years ago
The Federal Aviation Administration is turning to Kansas State University Salina to test certification standards for small unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS. Under a memorandum of agreement signed by the university and the FAA on Aug. 29, K-State Salina will validate industry standards for small unmanned aircraft systems -- systems typically weighing 55 pounds or ...