10 years ago
Kansas' state universities are calling for tuition increases of up to 5 percent, at least for now. The schools submitted their tuition proposals Wednesday to the governing Kansas Board of Regents. But those came before Gov. Sam Brownback signed a budget bill Wednesday afternoon that cuts higher education funding by 4 percent - one percent more ...

10 years ago
A standoff in a McPherson County community ended Wednesday evening when a man came out of a house and surrendered. Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the incident  in the McPherson County community of Roxbury. Law enforcement began responding at around 4:00 in the afternoon to reports of gunshots inside a home. Multiple officers ...

10 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback signed a budget bill Wednesday that makes significant cuts to the highway fund, Medicaid and higher education and trims most state agency budgets by 4 percent. Brownback announced cuts to address the more than $290 million shortfall faced this year and in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The plan includes cutting $185 ...

10 years ago
A Dickinson County woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her baby. Dickinson County Sheriff Gareth Hoffman tells KSAL News that deputies were called Monday night to Memorial Hospital in Abilene.  13-month-old Maddox Jones had been transported there, and was unresponsive. Maddox died at the hospital. Hoffman says that there were visible injuries on ...

10 years ago
A group of Salina area law enforcement officers teamed up Wednesday to run through the streets of Salina. The Saline County leg of the Special Olympics Torch Run weaved through town Wednesday afternoon. Saline County Sheriff Deputy Scott Trembley organized the event, in which over 20 runners and volunteers participated. Officers from the Salina Police Department, ...

10 years ago
A former officer at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility has been charged with having sexual contact with an inmate in the prison's medium-security unit. The Hutchinson News reports that Amy D. Hapner, is charged in Reno County with unlawful sexual relations. She remains free on $2,500 bond. It wasn't immediately known if she has an attorney. She is ...

10 years ago
Area lifeguards will be learning about sun safety before kids show up for swimming lessons this summer. "We go to all the Salina pools, and Lindsborg and Marquette this year to train the lifeguards who teach swim lessons, to give them sun safety lessons," said Linda Hinnenkamp RN and Cancer Outreach Coordinator at Tammy Walker Cancer ...

10 years ago
A man is about to learn whether he will be sentenced to death for fatally shooting three adults and an 18-month-old girl on an eastern Kansas farm in 2013. Jurors have recommended the death sentence for 30-year-old Kyle Flack. A Franklin County judge will announce whether he will follow the recommendation at a sentencing hearing Wednesday. Flack ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of a pair of revolvers from a garage. Police were notified on Tuesday about two missing pistols and ammunition that were stolen from a detached garage in the 1600 block of Overlook sometime between October of 2015 and May 16th of this year. Police say someone removed a Colt .38 caliber ...

10 years ago
Saline County Commissioners had an active day Tuesday. Among other things, they fired a department head and signed an agreement top help with security at the airport. At around 3:15 in the afternoon,the Saline County Commission returned from an executive session.  Road and Bridge Director Gary Nash's probation period was scheduled to end next week.  In ...

10 years ago
Bill Self isn't paying state taxes on the bulk of his millions of dollars of income as men's basketball coach at Kansas, all legal under 2012 tax reforms. KCUR reports Self earns a taxable salary of $230,000 a year. But he also gets at least $2.75 million annually from the entity that runs the school's intercollegiate sports, ...