January 23, 2016, 5:42 am
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he'll ask the state Supreme Court to review a ruling from a lower court that blocks the state from enforcing its first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure.
The Republican attorney general said in a statement that Friday's ruling from the Kansas Court of Appeals provides little legal clarity.
The Court of Appeals split 7-7, allowing a trial-court judge's decision against the 2015 law to stand. The split means the Court of Appeals upheld the trial-court judge's finding that the state constitution protects abortion rights independently of the U.S. Constitution.
Schmidt said ...
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January 23, 2016, 5:43 am
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to a bomb hoax that caused the disruption at the Kansas City International Airport.
David James Cain of Kansas City, Kansas pleaded guilty Thursday to conveying false information.
Prosecutors say Cain left his truck parked in front of Terminal B for more than an hour in August 2014. After announcements were made threatening to tow the truck, Cain told several Southwest Airlines employees a bomb was in the vehicle. Police and FBI bomb experts found no explosive materials.
The terminal was evacuated for about two hours, causing significant delays for the rest ...
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January 23, 2016, 10:41 am
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In conjunction with the biggest weekends of football games of the year, Salina's biggest weekend efforts of the year to gather food for the hungry are underway. The 2016 Souper Bowl of Hope has started.
The Souper Bowl is an effort of Salina churches and businesses to gather cans of soup. The soup is donated to five organizations that feed the hungry. Those organizations include:
Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank
Salina Salvation Army
Salina Rescue Mission
Ashby House
Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas
The collection effort came at a critical time. The annual "Project Salina" food drive in May helps stock shelves for the summer months. ...
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January 23, 2016, 11:55 am
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Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies are trying to revive their push to remake Kansas' courts by stoking public outrage after recent abortion and death penalty rulings.
Brownback has repeatedly advocated overhauling how Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected, potentially giving governors and legislators have more control. He and other prominent conservative Republicans renewed their calls for change over the past week.
The current system relies on a lawyer-led commission to screen Supreme Court applicants. The governor must appoint one of its three finalists. Lawmakers have no role.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff King said rulings voters dislike can get their attention ...
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January 23, 2016, 2:17 pm
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The superintendent of a St. Louis area school district has been named to lead the Topeka school district.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1OOpCa7) that the Topeka Board of Education voted Friday to hire Tiffany Anderson, superintendent of the 2,600-student Jennings School District. Anderson previously led the 10,000-student Montgomery County school district in Virginia.
The Topeka Unified School District 501 has 30 schools and 14,000 students.
School board president Patrick Woods said Anderson has had tremendous success elsewhere and USD 501's students will benefit from her expertise in curriculum and instruction.
Anderson's contract includes base pay of $215,000 a year. She will be USD 501's ...
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January 23, 2016, 4:30 pm
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Nearly thirty hobbyists received a crash course on the operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or Drones, at the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus in Salina on Saturday.
The course was presented by faculty, and students, from the K-State Unmanned Aircraft Systems program. It included a two-hour classroom ground school session, followed by an hour-long one-on-one flights session with a K-State drone expert.
With drones a popular gift this past holiday season, K-State decided for the first time to offer a course for novice drone owners.
According to Reuters, experts have said 700,000 to 1 million unmanned aircraft were expected to be given as ...
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January 24, 2016, 3:52 am
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - Sprint Corp. says in state filings that it has given layoff notices to 829 employees at its suburban Kansas City campus in the past three months.
The telecommunications company provided the information late Friday in a filing with the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The Kansas City Star reports that the notice was filed with the state under a federal law designed to give workers more notice when there are mass layoffs.
Job cuts have been expected since October when Sprint announced a $2.5 billion cost-cutting plan. But Sprint hadn't released any numbers until Friday. The number of Sprint ...
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January 24, 2016, 3:53 am
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Topeka man facing charges linked to an explosion in his car that injured his 4-year-old son has pleaded not guilty and waived his preliminary hearing.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that through his attorney, Jacob Daniel Schell entered not guilty pleas on Friday in Shawnee County court to charges, including aggravated battery of the child and criminal use of explosives.
Schell has been released on bond.
Schell's son, Roman, who was 4 at the time, was injured July 5th, 2015, when he was in a car with Schell and a sack containing explosives blew up in the child's lap.
Rather ...
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January 24, 2016, 4:01 am
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Sedgwick County authorities say a 23-year-old man has died after being hit by a car.
The sheriff's department says the accident occurred early Saturday morning. Sheriff's Sgt. Lanon Thompson told The Wichita Eagle that emergency crews treated the victim on the scene, but that he died.
He says the driver of the vehicle was cooperating with investigators.
The victim's name wasn't released.
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January 24, 2016, 8:30 am
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February is all about the Bard at Kansas State University as "First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare" makes its only stop in Kansas for a month of activities celebrating the famous work and marking the 400th anniversary of the man often called the world's greatest writer.
"First Folio" is a national traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association. It features the 1623 folio of 36 Shakespeare plays — 18 of which were unpublished at the time — collected and published in a large-text format by the ...
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January 24, 2016, 10:55 am
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Wichita State University and a dormitory resident whose room is infested with bed bugs are at odds over who should pay an exterminator for a second round of treatments.
Freshman Londyn Bobbitt says she first found bed bugs in November. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/1SBSvw3) reports that her room was treated, but that she found the bugs again last week. The school began treating her room again Thursday but says she's responsible for the $800 bill.
Wichita State housing director Scott Jensen says the pest control company is "very confident" that the bugs were eradicated.
Bobbitt insists there's no way she brought the bed bugs out ...
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January 24, 2016, 11:03 am
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A Kansas State University professor has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his solo performance on an album with the Kansas City Chorale.
Bryan Pinkall, assistant professor of music, and the Kansas City Chorale were nominated in the categories of Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album for their album "Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil."
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1PsCesQ) the album was released last March and debuted at No. 1 on the Classical and Traditional Classical Billboard charts.
Pinkall previously served as manager of performance operations and direction for the Emmy-winning 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. He also managed the production ...
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January 24, 2016, 12:30 pm
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Two prominent journalists will highlight a two-day event at Kansas Wesleyan University.
According to the school, longtime KAKE-TV anchor Larry Hatteberg and national photojournalist and retired White House Press Corps member Mark Reinstein will share their experiences covering local and national news at KWU's sixth annual Media Reflections symposium.
The symposium is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 3rd and Thursday, Feb 4th.
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at 7 p.m., Mark Reinstein, former White House Press Corps photographer, will speak in Fitzpatrick Auditorium, in Sams Hall of Fine Arts.
In his forty-year career as a photojournalist, Reinstein has captured intriguing moments in the ...
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January 25, 2016, 4:47 am
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been taken into custody after authorities say he threatened several people with a knife in a university residence hall in Lawrence.
Lawrence Police Department Sgt. Ted Bordman says the 23-year-old was arrested around 5 p.m. Sunday.
Bordman says several people were threatened with a knife in a dorm room in a Haskell Indian Nations University residence hall. No one was injured.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports the suspect was being held without bond in the Douglas County Jail on Sunday night.
The suspect doesn't have any criminal history listed in Douglas County Court records or in the Kansas ...
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January 25, 2016, 4:58 am
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ST. JOHN, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas town is scrambling to find ways to respond when its only grocery store closes Feb. 6.
More than 200 people attended a town hall meeting Sunday to discuss the closing of a Dillon's Market store.
Mayor Juliann Owens says the store was closing for financial reasons and because the small store can't be expanded.
When the store closes, St. John residents will have to drive more than 25 miles to Great Bend or Pratt, or 12 miles to a small grocery store in Stafford.
For now, residents are planning ways to help those who can't ...
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January 25, 2016, 6:55 am
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Multi award-winning country music trio Rascal Flatts is coming to Salina.
The group will kick off a tour in support of its newest album REWIND in March. The second stop on that tour will be in Salina. Rascal Flatts will perform at the Bicentennial Center on Friday, March 18th.
Rascal Flatts has over 22.5 million albums sold and over 28 million digital downloads and delivered 15 #1 singles to the top of the charts.
Rascal Flatts is the most awarded Country group of the past decade, earning over 40 trophies from the ACAs, ACMs, AMAs, CMAs, People’s Choice Awards and more. As one ...
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January 25, 2016, 8:37 am
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McKenna Law Office was victim to a damage to property case Thursday night.
A bullet hole was found in an east facing window on the front face of the property, and the bullet was found lodged into the filing cabinet.
There was $550 reported in damages.
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January 25, 2016, 8:57 am
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A trailer was stolen from Bob's Pawn Shop at 925 West Lincoln on Saturday morning. The black, single axle trailer is valued at $1,200. Video surveillance footage puts the crime taking place from 3:20-3:30AM.
On Friday afternoon, an HP laptop was stolen out of a black 1997 Lexus in the parking lot of Central Mall. There were no signs of forced entry, and the laptop, which is a rental from Aaron's, was valued at $800.
A home was broken into on the 100 block of South Second Street on Thursday night and a $900 50" LG television was stolen from the residence. ...
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January 25, 2016, 9:06 am
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Feldkamp's Furniture at 1930 South Ninth Street was victim to a burglary on Friday night.
Burglars broke in through the back door, causing $250 in damage to the door, and stole a seemingly random assortment of items. A 47" television, air compressor, 3 $25 gift cards, Nike shoes and a digital camera were among just some of the items stolen. A 2004 Ford Econoline van stolen as well with three headboards in the back, but the next afternoon the van and headboards were recovered abandoned with the keys inside on the corner of Washington and Eleventh Street.
The total loss and damage ...
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January 25, 2016, 9:12 am
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A Salina woman was scammed from a Craigslist ad for a home in town.
The ad for a home on Birch Street caught the 19-year-old's attention, and when she contacted who she thought was the landlord, she was instructed to send $580 via Moneygram. After she sent the money, the "landlord" stopped communication and she realized she had been scammed.
Salina police urge caution when responding to Craigslist ads, and ask that consumers use common sense to spot these kinds of scams.
Copyright © Alpha Media, 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part of this story or website may be reproduced without Alpha Media’s ...
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he'll ask the state Supreme Court to review a ruling from a lower court that blocks the state from enforcing its first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure.
The Republican attorney general said in a statement that Friday's ruling from the Kansas Court of Appeals provides little legal clarity.
The Court of Appeals split 7-7, allowing a trial-court judge's decision against the 2015 law to stand. The split means the Court of Appeals upheld the trial-court judge's finding that the state constitution protects abortion rights independently of the U.S. Constitution.
Schmidt said ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to a bomb hoax that caused the disruption at the Kansas City International Airport.
David James Cain of Kansas City, Kansas pleaded guilty Thursday to conveying false information.
Prosecutors say Cain left his truck parked in front of Terminal B for more than an hour in August 2014. After announcements were made threatening to tow the truck, Cain told several Southwest Airlines employees a bomb was in the vehicle. Police and FBI bomb experts found no explosive materials.
The terminal was evacuated for about two hours, causing significant delays for the rest ...
In conjunction with the biggest weekends of football games of the year, Salina's biggest weekend efforts of the year to gather food for the hungry are underway. The 2016 Souper Bowl of Hope has started.
The Souper Bowl is an effort of Salina churches and businesses to gather cans of soup. The soup is donated to five organizations that feed the hungry. Those organizations include:
Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank
Salina Salvation Army
Salina Rescue Mission
Ashby House
Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas
The collection effort came at a critical time. The annual "Project Salina" food drive in May helps stock shelves for the summer months. ...
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies are trying to revive their push to remake Kansas' courts by stoking public outrage after recent abortion and death penalty rulings.
Brownback has repeatedly advocated overhauling how Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected, potentially giving governors and legislators have more control. He and other prominent conservative Republicans renewed their calls for change over the past week.
The current system relies on a lawyer-led commission to screen Supreme Court applicants. The governor must appoint one of its three finalists. Lawmakers have no role.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff King said rulings voters dislike can get their attention ...
The superintendent of a St. Louis area school district has been named to lead the Topeka school district.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1OOpCa7) that the Topeka Board of Education voted Friday to hire Tiffany Anderson, superintendent of the 2,600-student Jennings School District. Anderson previously led the 10,000-student Montgomery County school district in Virginia.
The Topeka Unified School District 501 has 30 schools and 14,000 students.
School board president Patrick Woods said Anderson has had tremendous success elsewhere and USD 501's students will benefit from her expertise in curriculum and instruction.
Anderson's contract includes base pay of $215,000 a year. She will be USD 501's ...
Nearly thirty hobbyists received a crash course on the operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or Drones, at the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus in Salina on Saturday.
The course was presented by faculty, and students, from the K-State Unmanned Aircraft Systems program. It included a two-hour classroom ground school session, followed by an hour-long one-on-one flights session with a K-State drone expert.
With drones a popular gift this past holiday season, K-State decided for the first time to offer a course for novice drone owners.
According to Reuters, experts have said 700,000 to 1 million unmanned aircraft were expected to be given as ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Topeka man facing charges linked to an explosion in his car that injured his 4-year-old son has pleaded not guilty and waived his preliminary hearing.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that through his attorney, Jacob Daniel Schell entered not guilty pleas on Friday in Shawnee County court to charges, including aggravated battery of the child and criminal use of explosives.
Schell has been released on bond.
Schell's son, Roman, who was 4 at the time, was injured July 5th, 2015, when he was in a car with Schell and a sack containing explosives blew up in the child's lap.
Rather ...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Sedgwick County authorities say a 23-year-old man has died after being hit by a car.
The sheriff's department says the accident occurred early Saturday morning. Sheriff's Sgt. Lanon Thompson told The Wichita Eagle that emergency crews treated the victim on the scene, but that he died.
He says the driver of the vehicle was cooperating with investigators.
The victim's name wasn't released.
February is all about the Bard at Kansas State University as "First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare" makes its only stop in Kansas for a month of activities celebrating the famous work and marking the 400th anniversary of the man often called the world's greatest writer.
"First Folio" is a national traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association. It features the 1623 folio of 36 Shakespeare plays — 18 of which were unpublished at the time — collected and published in a large-text format by the ...
Wichita State University and a dormitory resident whose room is infested with bed bugs are at odds over who should pay an exterminator for a second round of treatments.
Freshman Londyn Bobbitt says she first found bed bugs in November. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/1SBSvw3) reports that her room was treated, but that she found the bugs again last week. The school began treating her room again Thursday but says she's responsible for the $800 bill.
Wichita State housing director Scott Jensen says the pest control company is "very confident" that the bugs were eradicated.
Bobbitt insists there's no way she brought the bed bugs out ...
A Kansas State University professor has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his solo performance on an album with the Kansas City Chorale.
Bryan Pinkall, assistant professor of music, and the Kansas City Chorale were nominated in the categories of Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album for their album "Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil."
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1PsCesQ) the album was released last March and debuted at No. 1 on the Classical and Traditional Classical Billboard charts.
Pinkall previously served as manager of performance operations and direction for the Emmy-winning 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. He also managed the production ...
Two prominent journalists will highlight a two-day event at Kansas Wesleyan University.
According to the school, longtime KAKE-TV anchor Larry Hatteberg and national photojournalist and retired White House Press Corps member Mark Reinstein will share their experiences covering local and national news at KWU's sixth annual Media Reflections symposium.
The symposium is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 3rd and Thursday, Feb 4th.
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at 7 p.m., Mark Reinstein, former White House Press Corps photographer, will speak in Fitzpatrick Auditorium, in Sams Hall of Fine Arts.
In his forty-year career as a photojournalist, Reinstein has captured intriguing moments in the ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been taken into custody after authorities say he threatened several people with a knife in a university residence hall in Lawrence.
Lawrence Police Department Sgt. Ted Bordman says the 23-year-old was arrested around 5 p.m. Sunday.
Bordman says several people were threatened with a knife in a dorm room in a Haskell Indian Nations University residence hall. No one was injured.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports the suspect was being held without bond in the Douglas County Jail on Sunday night.
The suspect doesn't have any criminal history listed in Douglas County Court records or in the Kansas ...
Multi award-winning country music trio Rascal Flatts is coming to Salina.
The group will kick off a tour in support of its newest album REWIND in March. The second stop on that tour will be in Salina. Rascal Flatts will perform at the Bicentennial Center on Friday, March 18th.
Rascal Flatts has over 22.5 million albums sold and over 28 million digital downloads and delivered 15 #1 singles to the top of the charts.
Rascal Flatts is the most awarded Country group of the past decade, earning over 40 trophies from the ACAs, ACMs, AMAs, CMAs, People’s Choice Awards and more. As one ...
McKenna Law Office was victim to a damage to property case Thursday night.
A bullet hole was found in an east facing window on the front face of the property, and the bullet was found lodged into the filing cabinet.
There was $550 reported in damages.
Copyright © Alpha Media, 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part of this story or website may be reproduced without Alpha Media’s express consent.
A trailer was stolen from Bob's Pawn Shop at 925 West Lincoln on Saturday morning. The black, single axle trailer is valued at $1,200. Video surveillance footage puts the crime taking place from 3:20-3:30AM.
On Friday afternoon, an HP laptop was stolen out of a black 1997 Lexus in the parking lot of Central Mall. There were no signs of forced entry, and the laptop, which is a rental from Aaron's, was valued at $800.
A home was broken into on the 100 block of South Second Street on Thursday night and a $900 50" LG television was stolen from the residence. ...
Feldkamp's Furniture at 1930 South Ninth Street was victim to a burglary on Friday night.
Burglars broke in through the back door, causing $250 in damage to the door, and stole a seemingly random assortment of items. A 47" television, air compressor, 3 $25 gift cards, Nike shoes and a digital camera were among just some of the items stolen. A 2004 Ford Econoline van stolen as well with three headboards in the back, but the next afternoon the van and headboards were recovered abandoned with the keys inside on the corner of Washington and Eleventh Street.
The total loss and damage ...
A Salina woman was scammed from a Craigslist ad for a home in town.
The ad for a home on Birch Street caught the 19-year-old's attention, and when she contacted who she thought was the landlord, she was instructed to send $580 via Moneygram. After she sent the money, the "landlord" stopped communication and she realized she had been scammed.
Salina police urge caution when responding to Craigslist ads, and ask that consumers use common sense to spot these kinds of scams.
Copyright © Alpha Media, 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part of this story or website may be reproduced without Alpha Media’s ...