11 years ago
Kansas State Board of Education members are pondering how much additional funding for public schools they'll seek next year. The agenda for the board's meeting Tuesday includes a discussion of boosting general state aid and money for professional development and school lunch programs during the fiscal year that starts in July 2014. One proposal would raise the ...

11 years ago
A Wichita man says he's doing all he can to save his nephew from execution in Iraq. Musadik Mahdi, a Wichita aerospace engineer, says he fears his efforts will be in vain because his nephew is being held at a prison where executions happen on a whim. His nephew, Osama Jamal 'Abdallah Mahdi, was sentenced to ...

11 years ago
A biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, a history of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and novels set in the state and elsewhere are among this year’s 15 notable Kansas books. State Librarian Jo Budler announced the list Monday. It honors books published last year by a Kansas author or on a Kansas topic. Annual lists began in ...

11 years ago
A Kansas State University student who set a fire that killed a university researcher has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson sentenced 20-year-old Manhattan, Kan., resident Patrick Martin Scahill on Monday for starting the Feb. 6 fire at Lee Crest Apartments in Manhattan that killed 34-year-old Vasanta Pallem. Scahill admitted ...

11 years ago
A Wamego home and a former high school in Belleville are among the newest Kansas sites added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Kansas Historical Society said in a release that the listings were entered into the National Register on June 25, bringing the total number of Kansas listings in the National Register to ...

11 years ago
Barton County officials say a man and his son-in-law died in an oilfield-related accident. Sheriff Brian Bellendir says the men died Monday about one mile northeast of Claflin. The victims, 50-year-old Curtis Hoffman and 30-year-old Kebby Myers, apparently died after being overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas. Preliminary reports indicate Hoffman was working on a valve and called ...

11 years ago
Changes are coming to the KSAL website. While the content remains the same, it might look a little different. Users will still get 24 hour news updates from the KSAL News Team, and information updates on other pages including the jail bookings page, most wanted page, and FYI page. The biggest change is in the comment section.  ...

11 years ago
Kansas has obtained national accreditation for the agency that oversees the state’s preparations for emergencies and its responses to disasters. Gov. Sam Brownback had a news conference Monday to celebrate the Division of Emergency Management’s five-year accreditation by the Emergency Management Accreditation Program. The program is a Kentucky-based nonprofit group that sets standards for emergency preparedness and ...

11 years ago
The National Agricultural Statistics Service is reporting that Kansas farmers have harvested 87 percent of their winter wheat crop. The agency reported Monday that by this date last year the entire crop had been cut, but harvest activity is nearing the seasonal average of 89 percent. It also noted that 99 percent of the state's winter wheat ...

11 years ago
Police are asking for the public's help in finding a couple of thieves. Police say that on May 23rd, the white male and white female in the photos are suspected of taking a wallet that was left on the service desk counter of Dillons, 1235 E. Cloud. If you have any information concerning who committed this crime, ...

11 years ago
Twinkies don't last forever, but they'll have more staying power than most people remember when they return to shelves next week. Hostess Brands LLC says spongy yellow cakes will have a shelf life of 45 days when they start hitting stores again July 15. That's nearly three weeks longer than the 26 days their previous owner ...