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Bill Snead, an award-winning news photographer from Kansas whose career included covering wars and national political conventions, has died. He was 78. Snead's wife, Dona (DOH-nuh) Snead, said Monday that Snead died at his Lawrence home Sunday after struggling for several months with advanced lung cancer. Snead spent 21 years with The Washington Post, including as a ...

10 years ago
Police were called to a Salina neighborhood after a couple of men wrestled an airsoft gun away from a would-be robber in the 100 block of E. Prescott. Police arrested 31-year-old Danny Lee Barnhouse early Saturday morning after he allegedly pointed a realistic looking assault rifle at Nicholas Briggs and demanded money. Police say Briggs and his ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was treated at the hospital for stab wounds and kept for observation after being attacked by a known suspect. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a man in his 40's was reportedly driving an acquaintance to the Howard Johnson Inn, 222 E. Diamond Drive on Sunday night around 7:30pm. The victim told ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A union representing Kansas teachers has filed two district court lawsuits alleging three teachers were removed from their positions without independent hearings, even though they earned tenure before the state Legislature repealed teacher protections in 2014. The lawsuits filed by the Kansas National Education Association come as the union and the state ...

10 years ago
The University of Kansas Endowment is using its own crowdfunding campaign to raise money for smaller projects on campus. The campaign, called Launch KU, is designed to bring in money for projects such as replacing 10 musicians' chairs at Swarthout Recital hall or bringing therapy dogs to campus. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1RCUgbn) the first seven projects ...

10 years ago
A split vote last month on an abortion issue is the first time in Kansas Court of Appeals' history that it has reached a deadlock. The 14-member court was evenly divided in a Jan. 22 vote on whether the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion. The main reasons there have been no previous ties is ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas lawmakers want to restrict public access to law enforcement body camera footage in an effort to protect the privacy of people caught on camera. A bill introduced by the House judiciary committee last week would limit release of the video to the people in the footage, their attorneys and their parents ...

10 years ago
Sunday started much the same way Saturday ended, with the ground shaking in parts of the Midwest. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, three earthquakes were recorded along the Kansas / Oklahoma border before 7:00 in the morning. Early morning quakes included: 2.8 at 4:41 AM 3.9 at 5:25 AM 2.9 at 6:35 AM The three quakes came just ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City woman who worked as a teacher and lived on a pension left $2 million to a Catholic order when she died at age 100. The Star reports that Anna Kurzweil donated $2 million to the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order known as Jesuits, upon her death in ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A 19-year-old Kansas City man accused of trying to kill a Wyandotte County deputy has been sentenced on an unrelated robbery charge. Charles Bowser is one of three men charged with shooting Deputy Scott Wood during a convenience store robbery last March in Kansas City, Kansas. The Star reports that two other ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Topeka police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby. Police Captain Ash Kaboudan said officers were called Friday evening to a home on a report of a pediatric emergency, and crews took the girl by ambulance to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that police haven't released ...