12 years ago
Kansans are being encouraged to prepare for an invasion of the living dead, with Gov. Sam Brownback scheduled to sign a proclamation later this week declaring October Zombie Preparedness Month. The state Division of Emergency Management says if residents are prepared for a zombie attack, they're prepared for anything. Deputy director Angee Morgan says the idea ...

12 years ago
State and local officials in four Kansas counties are conducting an exercise to practice the state's plan to respond to a foreign animal disease. The state Department of Agriculture says the drill began Monday and continues through Wednesday. Emergency response teams from Clay, Lyon, Riley and Pottawatomie counties are taking part. Agriculture officials said the exercise is ...

12 years ago
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is set to campaign with fellow Republican Pat Roberts in race that's suddenly competitive for the three-term Kansas U.S. senator. Dole planned to attend an event with Roberts Monday in Dodge City, where Roberts lists his residence but admits having visited only seven times this year. The pair also plans ...

12 years ago
A federal appeals court has scheduled arguments in the case of a Kansas abortion opponent who sent a letter to a Wichita doctor saying someone might place an explosive under her car. A notice Monday at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sets a Nov. 18 hearing in the Justice Department's lawsuit against Angel Dillard. At ...

12 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by the state's largest teachers' union over a new law ending guaranteed tenure in public schools. Schmidt filed his request Monday in Shawnee County District Court in response to the lawsuit filed in August by the Kansas National Education Association. The attorney general contends the union ...

12 years ago
Sentencing is again delayed for an Assaria teen who shot his young stepbrother to death back in 2010. 18-year-old Ryan Velez was scheduled to be sentenced Monday afternoon for second-degree murder. Instead, he will be sentenced in November. It's the second time the sentencing has been rescheduled. Velez shot and killed 9-year-old Kaden Harper in June of ...

12 years ago
A 50-seat jet flying to Dallas was forced to land in Wichita after its windshield cracked over Salina. No one was injured onboard the Embraer regional jet that took off from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Spokeswoman Valerie Wise says the plane was over Salina Monday morning when the pilot said he needed to make an ...

12 years ago
A truck reported stolen in Wichita is found in Salina after a reported hit and run accident. Deanna Powell of Salina described the truck to police that ran a stop sign at College and Walnut on Saturday at 1:18pm and smashed her Toyota Sienna. On Sunday officers located the stolen Ford F-150 parked in the 800 block ...

12 years ago
A Texas man is treated at the hospital for back pain after a two car crash. The Saline County Sheriff's Office reports a passenger in a 2008 Mercedes Benz complained of pain in his hands and back after a vehicle collided with the car he was in Friday afternoon at the intersection of Salemsborg Road and ...

12 years ago
A woman from Virginia was hurt in a single-vehicle crash near Salina Monday morning. Law enforcement and EMS were called at 10:25 to the report of a crash near the Interstate 70 / Interstate 135 junction. First responders discovered an SUV on its top in the I 70 median. Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers told KSAL News at ...

12 years ago
Salina Police arrest a man after he allegedly held a woman captive inside a motel room. Staff at Salina Regional Health Center contacted police after a 31-year-old woman took a cab to the hospital to get help. The victim told officers that 39-year-old Joshua Moore beat her, held a knife to her throat and sodomized her inside ...