11 years ago
The Salina VA clinic will remain open despite the federal government shutdown. According to the agency office in Wichita, it’s important to know that the Veterans Health Administration, the branch of VA that operates our VA medical centers, including the Robert J. Dole VAMC in Wichita, KS and the Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Fort Dodge, ...

11 years ago
A house fire in Wichita has injured two people and displaced a family of 10. The Wichita Eagle reports the fire broke out early Wednesday at the home, where two adults and eight children lived. A 17-year-old was taken to hospital burn unit for treatment. A Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor said a second person was injured but ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating a burglary and theft from a Salina apartment. Police say Maximo Mereno returned to his home in the 100 block of N. Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon at 4pm, and found the door had been kicked in. Thieves removed a 16-inch Intel computer monitor, 16-inch Samsung flat screen TV, Philips brand DVD player, two wristwatches ...

11 years ago
The federal government shutdown has hit Kansas, where signs have been posted at Farm Service Agency offices around the state saying the offices will reopen once Congress restores federal funding. The federal shutdown began shortly after midnight Monday, when Congress couldn't reach a budget deal. Funding for the Affordable Care Act is the main contention ...

11 years ago
Fort Riley civilian employees received notices of furloughs Tuesday following a government shutdown effective 12:01 a.m. Eastern Oct. 1. Furloughs will affect hundreds of civilian workers across a broad spectrum of services at Fort Riley. Effects of the shutdown will vary across the post. “Annual funding for the federal government expired on September 30, 2013,” Fort ...

11 years ago
Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss announced today that the Supreme Court has reappointed Jerome P. Hellmer to a two-year term as Chief Judge of the 28th Judicial District, effective January 1, 2014. Judge Hellmer has served as a district judge since 1996 in the 28th Judicial District. He presides over cases in Saline ...

11 years ago
A 65-year-old man has died after his pickup truck was hit by a tractor-trailer that was trying to pass on a northeast Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Larry Roger Mueller, of Hanover, was eastbound on U.S. 36 when the semi tried to pass his pickup. The semi couldn't complete the pass and moved back ...

11 years ago
A special awareness event will kick off Salina Breast Cancer Awareness Month Thursday evening. Early detection of breast cancer in its most curable stages and new treatments have greatly increased the odds for survival. In recognition of national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Tammy Walker Cancer Center at Salina Regional Health Center and Salina Downtown, Inc., ...

11 years ago
Seven-hundred Kansas National Guard personnel are being sent home as the impact of the federal government shutdown takes hold. Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard, says Tuesday that the furloughs affect about one-third of the Guard's federal employees. The soldiers perform a variety of administrative, maintenance and unit readiness functions. Many of ...

11 years ago
Authorities are investigating after a man's body was found in a ditch near the Sedgwick County town of Kechi. KAKE reports that a man walking his dog found the body in a ditch Monday morning. Lt. Dave Mattingly of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office says the man has been identified as 23-year-old Deandre Freeman Jr. He said ...

11 years ago
A Kansas Insurance Department official is advising consumers in her state to be patient in trying to buy health coverage through a new online insurance marketplace. Linda Sheppard said Tuesday that glitches with the rollout of major new technology wouldn't be unusual, even without the partial shutdown of the federal government. Sheppard is the Insurance ...