12 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach predicts turnout for Tuesday's elections will be about 50 percent, even without more than 20,000 people on a suspended voters list because they haven't provided proof of citizenship. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kobach on Thursday predicted about 872,000 people will vote out of about 1.74 million registered voters. The prediction ...

12 years ago
The GOP "Clean Sweep" bus tour rolled into Salina Thursday afternoon. The brightly colored bus is rolling across the state, carrying Republican candidates for state and federal offices on the campaign trail. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback was first off the bus when it stopped at Salina's Oakdale Park. He tells KSAL News the tour is important ...

12 years ago
A 57-year-old Kansas man found unresponsive in the ocean off Maui had died at a hospital. Maui police say Michael R. Higgins of Lenexa was spotted at about noon Wednesday in water off Keawekapu Beach Park in Kihei . Maui emergency responders administered CPR on the beach. Higgins was taken in critical condition to Maui Memorial Medical Center. ...

12 years ago
A purse is stolen during a fashion show. Salina Police are investigating after a Coach brand purse and its contents are stolen from a table at the Ambassador Hotel, 1616 W. Crawford, on Sunday afternoon. Morea Charvat of Marquette told officers that she was attending a fashion show and placed her black leather bag on a table ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman who was injured in a two vehicle crash dies at the hospital. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, 88-year-old Lila Breault died Thursday morning at Salina Regional Health Center. On Tuesday afternoon, Breault was driving southbound on Roach Street in a 1990 Buick Century, when for an unknown reason her car collided with a ...

12 years ago
A plane has crashed at Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport Thursday morning. A twin engine Beechcraft King Air lost an engine on takeoff and crashed into the two story Flight Safety building located on South Airport Road. The plane was trying to return to the runway. At least four people were killed, and four others were transported to ...

12 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is facing new questions about his administration's overhaul of the Medicaid program in Kansas as his close race for re-election nears its end. Brownback said Wednesday that the overhauled program known as KanCare is working well for the needy and disabled Kansas residents who receive health coverage under it. Democratic challenger Paul Davis ...

12 years ago
Independent challenger Greg Orman is attempting to make inroads into rural Kansas while asserting that Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts no longer effectively represents the agricultural interests that have long formed his political base. The suburban Kansas City businessman traveled Wednesday to a farm in rural south-central Kansas in an attempt to highlight his commitment to ...

12 years ago
A majority of the 22,394 voters who will be unable to cast a legal ballot this election in Kansas because of the state's proof-of-citizenship law claim no political affiliation. The Secretary of State's office said Wednesday that unaffiliated voters account for 57 percent, or 12,822 people, whose registrations were put on hold. Another 5,069 registrations still in ...

12 years ago
Authorities in central Kansas believe they've solved a recent rash of business burglaries with the arrests of three men. The Great Bend Tribune reports Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said Wednesday that officers have also recovered thousand dollars' worth of items such as air compressors and expensive tools. A 29-year-old man was arrested Friday by officers investigating ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of high-tech dental tools from a local office. Staff at New Horizons Dental Care, 1920 S. Ohio, contacted police last week about camera and drills that were allegedly stolen sometime between April 1st and August 15th. Police say two camera units were taken from the office during that timeframe, while two ...