12 years ago
A new report says the Kansas unemployment rate edged higher in May, but the state also saw modest growth in private-sector jobs over the past year. The state Labor Department says the jobless rate stood at 5.7 percent last month, up from 5.6 percent in April but down from 6.1 percent in May 2012. The report also ...

12 years ago
Kansas State University has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the U.S. State Department to bring international engineering students to campus. The university's engineering extension program will use the grant to bring 20 students from 13 countries to Kansas this summer to study environmental stewardship. The five-week program will start in July and conclude in August with ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is taking applications to fill a new position on the Kansas Court of Appeals, the first to use a new process signed into law this spring. The vacancy is for a 14th judge to serve on the court. The new law changed the way judges on the Court of Appeals are appointed and approved. ...

12 years ago
Police make an arrest after a property owner finds his chain link fence sold for scrap. Police say Orville Crowder of Salina saw a couple of men removing a roll of chain link fencing from a property he owns in the 300 block of N. 7th. The man told officers he saw them leaving in an SUV. Later ...

12 years ago
The first compressed natural gas pump for public use in Kansas is now open in Wichita. The $1 million station was officially opened Thursday at the CNG Services in Wichita. It was designed by Midwest Energy Solutions of Kansas City, Kan. Michael Batten, president of Midwest Energy, said it is the first in Kansas for the public. ...

12 years ago
Federal prosecutors say a man already committed as a sexual predator at Larned State Hospital has been charged with making child pornography while in custody. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 33-year-old Christopher M. Case enticed a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old to videotape sex acts and post them on the Internet while he was a patient in ...

12 years ago
The City of Salina in a special meeting Thursday afternoon moved a stop closer to cleaning up contamination at the Salina Regional Airport. City commissioners unanimously approved entering into a contract with the Dragun Corporation to put together a plan to begin the cleanup. Since 1999 local officials have been trying to get federal help in ...

12 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after thieves remove a number of gates and posts from a field. Owners of a property in the 900 block of N. Tressin Road contacted authorities after realizing someone had stolen twelve 6-foot T-posts, ten security gates and two metal panels from a field northwest of Salina. Deputies say the ...

12 years ago
An intercepted package leads to a drug related arrest. Officers from the I 135 / I 70 Drug Task Force executed a search warrant after being alerted by the postal service about a possible drug delivery. Police say the postal inspector found about 2 pounds of marijuana in a box that was mailed from northern California to ...

12 years ago
A motorcycle is stolen from a business parking lot while the owner shopped. Salina police are investigating after a 1992 Harley Davidson motorcycle was stolen on Wednesday afternoon between 4:30pm and 4:45pm. The owner told police he was shopping inside Ace Hardware, 321 S. Broadway, and found out the bike missing just 15-minutes later. The Electra Glide tour ...

12 years ago
After most of the world’s population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine. That’s the vision of a California man who is ...