11 years ago
A pair of Kansas shoe store employees are being lauded for their actions after one of them found a 2-year-old locked inside a sweltering car in the parking lot. 16-year-old Porscha Bland had just left a Famous Footwear store in Merriam on Saturday afternoon when she saw the child in a car, covered in sweat and ...

11 years ago
A 54-year-old former employee of a Wichita surgery center has been found guilty of computer fraud for a mass transfer of emails that included information of 317 patients. April Galvan was found guilty Monday of seven counts of computer fraud. Authorities say that around 11:30 a.m. June 12, 2013, Galvan had been fired from Cypress Surgery Center. ...

11 years ago
President Barack Obama has signed a federal disaster declaration that will free up federal funds to help Kansas recover from recent spring storms. The federal money will go toward repairing damage to infrastructure and services damaged by May and June storms that included tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding. Obama signed the disaster declaration Monday. Federal funding is ...

11 years ago
The Salina City Commission has expressed interest in making public art a part of the new Field House Salina project. Salina Arts and Humanities Executive Director Brad Anderson mew with commissioners during a study session Monday afternoon. Anderson tells KSAL News that he was asked to work with the architect of the the project, and an ...

11 years ago
A Kansas school district the state's new education commissioner left earlier this month is facing questions over the timing of revelations that an administrator was suspected of misusing district funds. McPherson School District officials knew in mid-June that associate superintendent Chris Ruder was suspected of charging personal expenses on a district card, but he wasn't suspended ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has dismissed the indictment against seven men accused in 2012 of cheating investors out of $132 million. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted on Monday the request from prosecutors to dismiss the case. Its end comes nearly three years after the government announced the indictment, alleging at the time that investors were ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University says it has received $141.5 million in gift pledges in the fiscal year that just ended. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the donations for the fiscal year that ended June 30 came from individual supporters and corporate partners, with 57,813 individuals making more than 80,550 gifts. Alumni made nearly half the gifts and were the ...

11 years ago
Fort Riley officials say the fort's marina is closed because of high levels of toxic blue-green algae at the north end of Milford Lake. The marina is expected to remain closed until the lake conditions improve. The south end of Milford Lake is open, but is under a public health warning, which means boating and fishing ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after cash is stolen from a car loaned out to a friend. Police say Adrienna Larson of Salina loaned her 2012 Nissan Sentra to a friend to drive between Friday and Saturday. When Larson picked up her car at Russell's Restaurant, 649 Westport Blvd., she discovered the $600 in cash she ...

11 years ago
A Wichita State University mathematician says she has seen enough odd patterns in Kansas election results that she thinks it's time to check the accuracy of some voting machines. But Beth Clarkson says government officials have been reluctant to provide her with the records she needs to conduct an audit. Sedgwick County election officials refused to allow ...

11 years ago
A western Kansas man killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers over the weekend has been identified as a 65-year-old Colby resident. Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesman Mark Malick says Charles Edward Dewey was gone when Colby police responded late Friday night to a domestic disturbance involving someone with a gun. Police and Thomas County sheriff's ...