9 years ago
A Kansas prosecutor says the death penalty "is on the table" in the case of two people who investigators say fled to Mexico as suspects in a triple homicide last October. Harvey County prosecutors have charged 35-year-old Jereme Nelson and 31-year-old Myrta Rangel each with one count of capital murder and three counts of first-degree murder. Nelson ...

9 years ago
Kansas was among states around the country, and countries around the world, where women gathered on Saturday to march for women's rights. Wearing pink, pointy-eared "pussyhats" to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women massed in the nation's capital and cities around the globe Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they ...

9 years ago
An event hosted by area Girl Scouts will feature an award winning journalist. According to Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland, Susan Page of USA Today will serve as keynote speaker at the second-annual Leadership Luncheon hosted by the Juliette’s Pearls Leadership Society, whose mission is investing in girls to build tomorrow’s community leaders. The luncheon will be ...

9 years ago
A Salina man is behind bars, facing potential charges that include attempted murder, following a Friday morning crash. Police tell KSAL News that officers responded to what was initially thought to be simple a single-vehicle crash where an SUV crashed into a tree. Further investigation, though, prompted the arrest of 36-year-old Aaron Levi Rogers. Police say that ...

9 years ago
            The Abilene High School Basketball teams competed in the semifinals of the Salina Invitational Tournament today at the Salina Bicentennial Center.  In the first game the Cowgirls fell to Liberal 47-41, and in game two the Cowboys pulled away from Salina South 68-54 to make it to tomorrow’s title ...

9 years ago
Under the recommended budget by Gov. Sam Brownback, per-pupil state financial aid to Kansas public schools would trail inflation in the current fiscal year and following two fiscal years. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2iSuwJB) reports the Kansas Association of School Boards says appropriations between 2009 and 2019 would result in an increase of about $200 million over ...

9 years ago
A recent report from a real estate agency says a lack of industrial inventory in Lawrence is hurting the city's prospective job growth. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2jGXcde) reports Colliers International presented the market report Thursday, saying there are only 14 vacant industrial spaces in the city. According to the report the year-end industrial vacancy rate for ...

9 years ago
Some top Republican legislators in Kansas are looking to cut aid to public schools significantly to close a shortfall in the state's current budget by June 30. Their goal is to avoid the accounting moves proposed by GOP Gov. Sam Brownback and used in the past to cover budget holes. Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairwoman Carolyn ...

9 years ago
Friends of a missing University of Missouri-Kansas City student are praying for her safe return. The Wichita Eagle reports that a candlelight vigil for 20-year-old Toni Anderson was held Thursday night at a church in her hometown of Wichita. Anderson was last seen early Sunday when she was pulled over by a Missouri police officer for an ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge from the state's largest teachers union to a 2014 law ending guaranteed tenure in the state's public schools. The court ruled unanimously Friday that lawmakers didn't practice logrolling when they passed the bill. Logrolling is the practice of including several topics in one bill, and the state ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld convictions of two Salina men serving prison terms in connection with child abuse deaths, and denied a new trial for a Salina man who is in prison for his role in connection with the death of woman who was beaten to death in 2014. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions ...