12 years ago
A Kansas House committee has tabled a bill to require cities and other local governments to warn consumers if they put fluoride in their water supplies. Chairman David Crum said the House Health and Human Services Committee's 10-2 vote Monday means the anti-fluoride bill is dead. The measure has been condemned by public health officials and the ...

12 years ago
A Wichita-based group has left voicemail messages urging Kansans to thank their state representative who voted for a bill that sought to protect from lawsuits employees who refused service to anyone based on religious beliefs about marriage. House members overwhelmingly approved the bill, but Senate leaders blocked it, saying it was too broad, ...

12 years ago
Saline County Clerk and Election Officer Don Merriman says he's hoping for a 50-percent participation rate when all is said and done in a stand alone bond issue this April. Merriman stopped into the KSAL Morning News on Monday with a look at a mail-in ballot that will decide whether voters who live in USD 305 ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating two vehicle thefts. Officers were called to the 800 block of Harold on Friday after a 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck was stolen off the street. The owner told police the vehicle, which is gray in color and has the Kansas license tag: 819 DDG, was taken sometime between Thursday night ...

12 years ago
A bill before the Kansas House would allow farming interests to have more input into where power lines are placed. The bill would require all power line projects to be reviewed by the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority before they are considered by the Kansas Corporation Commission. Rep. Sharon Schwartz, a Republican from Washington, said the ...

12 years ago
A Kansas House committee is considering a proposal to require cities and other local governments to warn consumers if they put fluoride in their water supplies. The bill on the Health and Human Services Committee's agenda Monday has been condemned by public health officials and the Kansas Dental Association. The federal Centers for Disease Control last ...

12 years ago
Kansas hospital officials say a federal proposal to change how rural hospitals are designated for purposes of Medicare reimbursements could be devastating to smaller health care facilities that already are struggling to survive. The Wichita Eagle  reports a Department of Health and Human Services report last fall suggested that critical access hospitals within 35 miles of ...

12 years ago
A Kansas radiologist who is seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts acknowledges making a mistake when he posted gruesome X-ray images of fatal gunshot wounds and medical injuries to his Facebook page years ago, but he blames Roberts for making them public. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports health professionals in Kansas and Missouri criticized Milton Wolf's ...

12 years ago
Kansas enacted a law last year to prevent government agencies from infringing on residents' religious liberties. That policy is an issue in the Legislature's debate this year over responding to the possibility that the federal courts could strike down the state's ban on gay marriage. In the Senate, President Susan Wagle said the 2013 law ...

12 years ago
Thousands of people holding flickering candles marched through Springfield to remember a 10-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed less than a week ago. The Springfield News-Leader reports family members of Hailey Owens led the procession Saturday night while onlookers filled sidewalks. Hailey was abducted ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a doctor died in the crash of a small plane in western Kansas. The patrol says the plane went down Saturday evening in a field in Greeley County, about 11 miles west of Tribune. The pilot, 63-year-old Dr. Randall Fahrenholtz of Tribune, died at a hospital. No one else was on board ...