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Several black leaders in Topeka say a Kansas State Board of Education member's use of a racial slur during a meeting last month was unnecessary and inappropriate. Carolyn Campbell, the only black member of the board, and other black community leaders criticized board member Steve Roberts on Tuesday for using the slur at April's board meeting. Roberts ...

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Critics of the Kansas Board of Education's decision to adopt national standards for math and reading urged the board to reconsider its decision to join the education program. Opponents of the Common Core standards, which were developed by a national consortium, spent nearly two hours criticizing the standards during a hearing Tuesday. Kansas is among 46 states ...

12 years ago
Saline County Commissioners discussed the possibility of not allowing recording devices from the public at study session meetings. At the weekly formal meeting Tuesday Commission Chairman Randy Duncan, when answering a question from David James from the NAACP, said that county counsel has recommended that recording devices, including cellular telephones, be banned from study session meetings. ...

12 years ago
Two teens are facing charges of indecent liberties. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, Salina Police were contacted by an adult in a home in east Salina, after they leaned about lewd fondling and touching between two 15-year-old males and an 11-year-old boy. Police say the incidents occurred between February 25th and May 10th. Names were not released in ...

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A Salina man is arrested after pointing a shotgun at a Saline County Sheriff's Deputy. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, deputies were called to a home at 4999 E. Old Highway 40 in New Cambria at 8pm Monday night after an argument escalated inside the house. Sheriff Kochanowki tells KSAL News that the first deputy on scene ...

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A ceremony to honor Salina law enforcement officers and state troopers who have died in the line of duty will be held Wednesday. The event will be held at Jerry Ivey Park as part of National Peace Officers Memorial Day. The Salina Police Color Guard will present the colors, followed by a roll call of the 15 ...

12 years ago
It's the not-so-green secret of the nation's wind-energy boom: Spinning turbines are killing thousands of federally protected birds, including eagles, each year. Each death is a federal crime. And the Obama administration has prosecuted oil and power companies for such deaths. But the administration has not prosecuted a single wind farm. An Associated Press investigation has found ...

12 years ago
The year's second Kansas Honor Flight is scheduled to take 24 World War II veterans and their guardians to Washington, D.C., where they will spend two days visiting various memorials. The group plans to leave Wichita at 6:25 a.m. Wednesday and return Friday afternoon. The trip is organized by Kansas Honor Flight Inc., whose mission is ...

12 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Senate plans to debate Governor Sam Brownback's proposal to authorize an additional $202 million for a new national biodefense lab. Brownback has said the measure on Tuesday's agenda in the Senate will fulfill the state's commitment to fund part of the cost of the National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas ...

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OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) - A man charged with killing four people on an eastern Kansas farm has made an appearance in a packed courtroom, but stayed mostly quiet. Twenty seven year old Kyle Flack is being held on $10 million bond. He is charged with murder in the deaths of 18 month old Lana Leigh Bailey, ...

12 years ago
A top Kansas Democrat is criticizing Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and GOP legislative leaders for holding private talks to resolve tax issues. House Minority Leader Paul Davis says discussions of tax issues should occur during public meetings of negotiators appointed by House and Senate leaders to resolve the chambers' differences. Davis, of Lawrence, issued a statement Monday ...