10 years ago
Police say a small improvised explosive device was found in a backpack at a women's health care clinic in Wichita. According to Wichita Police Department spokesman Doug Nolte, officers responded to the South Wind Women's Center around 3:30 p.m. Monday. Nolte said a male suspect came into the clinic with a backpack to do business. According to ...

10 years ago
Thirty-eight Kansas school districts are seeking a total of $14.8 million in additional aid from the state to address local budget issues. The requests submitted to the state Department of Education by Monday's deadline outstrip the available funds by nearly 21 percent. Those applying for extra dollars represent more than 13 percent of the state's 286 ...

10 years ago
Wichita State University president John Bardo says the school has to improve its enrollment efforts. The Wichita Eagle reports a report issued last week showed the university would have about 430 fewer students this fall than last year. The university has had about 15,000 for several years. During a convocation Friday, Bardo said the university must concentrate ...

10 years ago
A man who is wanted for attempted murder in Oklahoma is jailed in Kansas after a standoff with police. The Barton County Sheriff's office says Chris Solida was jailed after a standoff with law enforcement Friday. The standoff began when officers found Solida inside his car with his 2-year-old and 6-month-old children at a Great Bend ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is jailed after a couple of cars are damaged. Police say 30-year-old Bryan Davis was arrested for allegedly scratching two vehicles in the parking lot at Domino's Pizza located at 2100 S. 9th sometime Sunday between 12:45am and 1:16am. Officers say a verbal argument between Davis and two other men took place ...

10 years ago
Attorneys are telling Kansas regulators an agreement that would allow the state's largest electric company to increase its rates about 4 percent is reasonable for customers. The rate-setting Kansas Corporation Commission had a 90-minute hearing Monday on the proposed deal. It was struck by Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc., the commission's staff, a state consumer advocacy agency ...

10 years ago
The Hutchinson Correctional Facility has ended a program that allowed inmates to train service dogs. Prison spokesman Dirk Moss says staffing shortages prompted the decision to stop the program as of Aug. 1. The prison had one full-time officer overseeing the program and Moss said that person had to be ...

10 years ago
Security video from the YMCA links a Salina man to a crime. Catptain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 20-year-old Malachi W. Lageman was arrested on Sunday after a traffic stop. Police tied Lageman, who was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court, to images recorded of a vehicle burglary in the ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after allegedly swinging a chain at a woman. Officers were called to 100 block of S. 10th on Friday night just before 10:30pm - to the report of a man threatening a woman with a chain. Police arrested 32 -year-old Jerry J.Huckabey on assault charges. Officers reported that Huckabey swung ...

10 years ago
Jury selection is expected to take up to a week in the capital murder trial of a Missouri man who claims he was morally obligated to kill three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites. Frazier Glenn Miller Junior has publicly admitted firing the shots that killed 69-year-old William ...

10 years ago
Kansas regulators are reviewing an agreement that would allow the state's largest electric company to increase its rates by $78 million a year. The Kansas Corporation Commission was opening hearings Monday on the deal between Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc., a state consumer advocacy board and other parties. ...