12 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University is launching a first of it's kind challenge this week. According to the school, in order to teach the importance of being prepared for the unexpected during National Preparedness Month in September, assistant professor and director of the Emergency Management program Dr. Lonnie Booker has developed an attention-getting, community-wide competition to see who ...

12 years ago
Fifty-two U.S. House members have signed a letter voicing concerns about a proposal to change the map that governs how donated livers are distributed around the country. The letter, dated Friday, was written by Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder, a Republican. It comes in advance of a meeting Tuesday in Chicago to discuss a proposal to redraw ...

12 years ago
An official with a Wichita youth football league says the group does not plan to add extra security for weekend games in the wake of an attack on a coach and gunfire at a practice earlier this week. Greater Wichita Junior Football League athletic director Mickey Lara says he thinks it was an isolated incident. The Wichita ...

12 years ago
Jurors are getting the weekend off before deciding the fate of a Kansas bail bondsman accused of coercing women he bailed out of jail to have sex with him. The Hutchinson News reports that both sides rested Friday in the trial of 66-year-year-old Dwight Jurgens. He's accused of two counts of aggravated human trafficking, four counts ...

12 years ago
A suspected thief is caught on video. According to police, on September 8th a white male entered the Salina Walmart store and removed multiple items. Images of the suspect were caught on store security video. If you can identif the man in the video, or if you have any information concerning who committed this crime, call Crimestoppers ...

12 years ago
Republican Senator Pat Roberts' re-election campaign has posted an online ad attacking independent candidate Greg Orman as a liberal pretending to be conservative. But Orman's campaign demanded Friday that Roberts' team remove the ad because it edits audio from their recent debate at the Kansas State Fair. The ad accuses Orman of pretending to be conservative like ...

12 years ago
A new store is coming to the Central Mall in Salina. According to the mall, Aksent Boutique will open a location in Salina. Aksent Boutique offers clothing for women small to plus size, handmade custom and costume jewelry, handbags, and other accessories. Aksent Boutique will open a 1,862 square foot store located near Finish Line in Fall ...

12 years ago
A Kansas courthouse is open again after being evacuated when an employee found a couple of liquid-filled bottles taped together near a handicapped entrance. Douglas County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Steve Lewis says investigators decided not to take any chances after the suspicious bottles were found around 8:30 a.m. Friday at the old courthouse in Lawrence. Lewis says ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman is chased into a bathroom by a man with a baseball bat. Police arrested 25-year-old Timothy Sellers on Thursday after officers were called to a home in central Salina just after 7pm. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Sellers kicked in the front door on a residence of a 24-year-old female acquaintance - sending her ...

12 years ago
Sometime between Sunday, September 7th and Wednesday, September 10th, unknown person(s) entered property belonging to Salina Speedway, 2841 S. Burma Road, rural Saline County, and took the following items: a red Polaris ATV with red and blue lights on the front and back, a white EZ golf cart with a tan roof, a black 5’x8’ ...

12 years ago
Fort Hays State University's reputation as a national leader in the quality of its Virtual College programs was bolstered again this week when it was ranked the best college in Kansas for online education. TheBestSchools.org ranked FHSU No. 1 in an article, "The Best Online College in Each of America’s Fifty States." "We believe that ...