11 years ago
A Rice County woman admits to a cattle fraud scheme. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, 37-year-old Carrie L. Frederick of Sterling pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud. In her plea, Frederick admitted she embezzled money while she worked for Sellers Farms, Inc., a livestock feeding operation in Lyons. She caused money to be sent ...

11 years ago
Outgoing Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger admits she no longer fits into the state Republican party she has served for most of her life. Praeger, who is in her final term as insurance commissioner, favors abortion rights and gun control, and is a strong supporter of the new health insurance plan called Obamacare. All those positions ...

11 years ago
The trial for a former Fort Riley soldier charged with killing a Kansas National Guard member on New Year's Day in 2012 has been delayed for at least one day. Jury selection for the first-degree murder trial of 26-year-old Daniel Parker was scheduled to begin Monday in Riley County District Court. The trial was delayed because ...

11 years ago
A former middle school counselor has pleaded not guilty to having sex with a boy younger than 14. Thirty-two-year-old Brooke Dinkel, a former counselor for Smoky Valley Middle School, was bound over for trial Monday. She faces 10 counts of rape and 10 counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. Her trial was scheduled for Oct. 14. The boy ...

11 years ago
A convicted child sex predator will have to wait another month before learning how much he must pay the 9-year-old Kansas girl he used to produce pornography. Monday's restitution hearing for 50-year-old Philip Andra Grigsby, of Marquette, has been continued to July 15 to give attorneys more time to resolve questions about insurance payments. U.S. District Judge ...

11 years ago
Officials Monday morning celebrated a local company's contribution to improving Salina streets. Bergkamp Industries manufactured the first ever continuous micro surfacing paver, and still manufactures it. Company Operating Officer Bill Cooper tells KSAL News that the technology makes it possible to maintain roads with a minimum investment. The process allows a protective coat to be overlayed on ...

11 years ago
Still not found is the second perpetrator to an $8,000 radiator robbery. On June 22, the Roudy Busch salvage yard loacted on 1849 W North was broken into and robbed for six truck radiators. Detained by police is Steven Smith; 45, one of the men connected to the robbery whom after acquiring the radiators sold them ...

11 years ago
Tenured University of Kansas professors soon will begin facing periodic reviews. The Lawrence Journal World reports that the goal of the reviews is to make sure tenured professors are still on track. But some faculty are worried that research will suffer because professors will be spending so much time being reviewed or reviewing others. The time-suck fears ...

11 years ago
Washington County authorities say a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant has drowned in Lake Wedington while training for a triathlon. Authorities told reporters that 43-year-old David Finley was swimming in the lake Saturday when witnesses saw him struggle and disappear under water. His body was found Saturday night in about 20 feet of water. Finley was training ...

11 years ago
A federal judge is scheduled to get an update on the prosecution of a Kansas doctor charged with illegally dispensing prescription drugs. Fifty-three-year-old Michael Schuster was indicted May 1 on multiple counts alleging he operated a so-called "pill mill" at his Manhattan pain clinic. Schuster remains held without bond. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson scheduled a status ...

11 years ago
Eight minimum-security inmates have walked away from the state's prison in Lansing in the past three years. But officials there are confident in their security systems. All eight were eventually recaptured, including the latest to escape. Paul Cohagen was found Thursday. He was a plumber at the prison, a job that gave him the freedom of ...