11 years ago
In a season with an abnormally large amount of drownings officials are stressing water safety as the last big weekend of summer approaches. The Army Corps of Engineers is urging boaters to be cautious over the Labor Day holiday weekend. The corps' Kansas City District says there have been 14 water-related deaths this year at the 18 ...

11 years ago
A northwest Kansas school bus driver has been fired after leaving two young siblings locked in the bus, making for what one of them called a "bad day." KSNW-TV reports that the incident happened Monday in Hays, where 6 year old Kaden Dempsey and his 5 year old sister, Macey, were riding a bus for the ...

11 years ago
Former Republican state Sen. Jean Schodorf is considering a run for Kansas secretary of state next year as a Democrat. The Wichita Eagle reports that Schodorf said she's studying whether a challenge to Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach would be viable. The Wichita resident became a Democrat in January and said party members recently encouraged ...

11 years ago
Senator Pat Roberts says he doubts the U.S. can avoid a military strike in Syria following reports that its government used chemical weapons in the civil war there. But the Kansas Republican also said Tuesday that President Barack Obama should address the nation and get the consent of Congress for military action. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that ...

11 years ago
One of the hottest bands in country music is headed to Salina to perform a free concert. Florida Georgia Line will perform a free concert in Salina on Sunday September 22nd. The duo, known for the #1 smash hit "Cruise", has skyrocketed to the top of the country charts. Florida Georgia Line is set to begin ...

11 years ago
New research from the University of Arkansas finds that tornadoes cause greater damage when traveling uphill - and that the twisters tend to climb toward higher elevations rather than going downhill. Engineering researchers studied images of the 2011 deadly tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo. The research team found similarities between the two tornadoes and ...

11 years ago
A 71-year-old Hill City woman has been charged with trespassing for entering the city animal shelter to care for dogs she felt weren't being treated properly. Melissa Scott pleaded guilty recently to trespassing at the city dog pound, where she said the dogs didn't have proper shelter from the sun and lacked water. She went ...

11 years ago
Car audio speakers are ripped from an SUV. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, sometime between Saturday at 6pm and Monday morning at 7am, someone broke the back window out of a 1999 Dodge Durango and removed two, 15-inch JVC speakers and boxes from inside. Police say the vehicle was parked on the lot at Marshall Motors, 3500 ...

11 years ago
Police are reviewing video from a Salina store after a computer is stolen. Police are looking for three suspects, 2 white males and a white female, after they allegedly stole a Microsoft Surface Tablet computer from Wal-Mart, 2900 S. 9th, on Monday morning at about 7:35am. Police say video shows a male cutting the anti-theft device from ...

11 years ago
Kansas has recently joined 30 other states in enrolling students in a federally funded program aimed at raising high school graduation rates and helping students prepare for college and careers. Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker says the Kansas State Department of Education had been hoping for several years to introduce the program, called Jobs for America's ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Cosmosphere has launched a website with a live webcam where viewers can track conservation work on the engines that powered NASA's Apollo moon mission. The Hutchinson museum said Monday it recently got confirmation that a serial number on a thrust chamber recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean shows the F-1 engine came ...