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Kansas Official Seeks to Save Funds to Treat Drug Offenders
The Kansas Sentencing Commission's executive director worries that looming budget problems will pressure the state into cutting funding to treat drug offenders and divert them from prison. Executive...
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World Series Championship Celebrated
The party was on in Kansas City, and in Salina on Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds of thousands of fans lined the streets of downtown KC on Tuesday for a parade in honor of the Royals' World Series...
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Abilene Child Killed in Accident
A child was hit and killed by a car after school in Abilene Tuesday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 6-year-old Tayla Womochil was hit by an SUV. A 2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by...
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Jail Time for Groom Knockout
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after hitting a just-married groom at an IHOP last August. District Attorney Marc Bennett says 23-year-old Oliver...
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Kansas Considering New Policy for Campus Guns
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents is soliciting comments from state universities about a proposal to allow people to have concealed guns on their campuses but not carry the weapons...
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County Takes Care of Miscellany Before Conference
Saline County Commissioners are attending the Kansas Association of Counties Conference and Expo this week in Wichita. Before leaving, though, they met and addressed multiple issues. They heard a...
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Salina Man Charged with Sexual Crimes
A Salina man is in custody for allegedly raping, battering and threatening a female acquaintance. Zachary Gordon, 21 of Salina, allegedly held a female acquaintance in her 20's against her will in a...
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Police Log 11-4-15
A residential burglary was reported to Salina police yesterday on the 300 block of North 10th Street. A 60" smart TV, a Playstation 3 with games and food were stolen from the residence; a total loss of...
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Guidebook to Amazing Kansans
Some were explorers, scientists and pilots, but all had one thing in common - they were amazing Kansans. "999 Kansas Characters: Ad Astra, a Biographical Series," is a new book series from authors,...
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Kobach Defends Participating in Conference
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is defending his participation in a conference organized by a group that's been called "anti-immigrant." Kobach gave a presentation last week in Washington for The...
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Kansas Football Player Collapses, Dies
A western Kansas high school football player has died the day after collapsing during a game. Brian McVay, superintendent and principal of Wallace County schools, said Wednesday that Luke Schemm, a...
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Unruly Passenger Faces Federal Charges
The U.S. attorney's office says a disruptive passenger who forced the diversion of an American Airlines flight will face federal charges.The office says that Jason Baroletti, 38, Holbrook, N.Y., was...
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Tax Breaks to be Examined
A Kansas legislative study committee is having two days of hearings to examine tax exemptions and credits for businesses, nonprofit groups and others. The Special Committee on Taxation Committee...
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Kansas’ Top Utility Consumer Advocate Resigning
The top advocate for Kansas utility consumers is resigning to take a job in Washington. David Springe, chief consumer counsel for the Kansas Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board, announced Wednesday he'll...
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Media Outlets File Suit Against Governor
Media outlets have sued Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and others in his administration seeking public disclosure of agency records related to the appointment of a magistrate judge in Reno County. The...
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Alleged Vehicle Thief Apprehended
A Salina teen is in the Junction City juvenile detention facility for stealing and damaging a vehicle. A Salina man called the police yesterday to report that after he lent his 2004 white Ranger to...
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Camera Stolen from Lakewood Park
Salina police are investigating a theft that happened yesterday at Lakewood Park on East Iron. A woman in her twenties was taking pictures at the park, and left her camera bag full of equipment on the...
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Big Berlin Numbers
"It's all the biggies - all the songs you know," said Maestro Ken Hakoda with the Salina Symphony about this Sunday's tribute to Irving Berlin. Hakoda joined in on the KSAL Morning News Thursday with a...
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Kansas Supreme Court to Take up School Funding Case
The Kansas Supreme Court is preparing to weigh arguments in a lawsuit that claims the state's school districts are inadequately funded. A three-judge Shawnee County District Court panel found in June...
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New report: Services to Cost Kansas $47M More Than Expected
A new report says Medicaid and other services will cost Kansas about $47 million more than expected during the next two budget years. The new estimates Thursday complicate the budget picture for...
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