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Civil engineers are giving Kansas' infrastructure a grade of C minus. The regional chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers released the letter grade Wednesday. It's part of a report card that evaluated the state's aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, levees, railroads, roads and schools. Besides the state's overall grade, each sub-category also received ...

12 years ago
A former Internal Revenue Service agent has been spared any prison time after admitting she was paid for meetings with taxpayers that never occurred. The U.S. Attorney's office says Becky L. Book, of Pittsburg, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years of probation and ordered to pay restitution of about $26,450. Book pleaded guilty in February to ...

12 years ago
A deputy at a central Kansas jail is accused of having illegal sexual relations with a female inmate and bribing or intimidating two others. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson announced the charges Tuesday against 30-year-old Jonathan Diaz. Henderson says he asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to get involved after learning of the allegations two weeks ...

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A standoff with an armed man in the McPherson County community of Marquette ends peacefully Tuesday afternoon. Law enforcement tells KSAL News that a man with a weapon allegedly made several threats, and then refused to come out of a home. As a standoff ensued, officers from McPherson County and the Kansas Highway Patrol responded to ...

12 years ago
A Google Street View car was seen roaming the streets of Salina Tuesday taking photos. Cars in Google's Street View fleet have 15 lenses taking 360 degrees of photos. Motion sensors track the camera's position, a hard drive stores the data, a small computer runs the system and lasers capture 3D data to determine distances within ...

12 years ago
Thieves remove all four tires and rims from a truck. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, a 2008 Chevy pickup was hit by thieves sometime between Monday at 10pm and Tuesday at 2:56am, while parked in the 1200 block of Faith Drive. The owner contacted police after someone jacked up the truck, removed all four tires and rims ...

12 years ago
A former Internal Revenue Service agent faces sentencing after admitting she was paid for meetings with taxpayers that never occurred. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil will decide Tuesday whether to accept the government's recommendation of probation for Becky L. Book of Pittsburg. Book pleaded guilty in February to receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments ...

12 years ago
Movie staff finds an empty wallet. A Salina man is out $500 cash after accidently leaving his wallet at the Starplex Cinemas at the Central Mall, 2259 S. 9th. Police say the 45-year-old man attended a movie Sunday night and realized the next morning he'd left his wallet behind. Staff found the wallet on the floor Sunday night, ...

12 years ago
Vandals damage a door at KDOT. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone shattered the door glass on a building used by the Kansas Department of Transportation, 1112 N. 3rd, sometime over the weekend between Friday at 5pm and Monday at 6:30am. Police say no entry was made into the building, after the 3-foot by 6-foot double pane ...

12 years ago
Salina's city commission will consider allowing liquor sales in the city on Sunday. The possibility arose during a meeting Monday, when the commission approved an ordinance that allows microbreweries in the city. During discussion of that ordinance, commissioners considered whether to allow Sunday liquor sales. Current Salina law prohibits Sunday sales at liquor stores and other places ...

12 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - An engineering firm says it plans to appeal a decision by federal regulators in favor of a whistleblower allegedly fired for reporting unsafe conditions at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Georgia based Enercon Services violated whistleblower protections when it retaliated against an engineer ...