12 years ago
The Kansas State Board of Education is drafting a plan that would require all teachers in the state to submit fingerprints and undergo extensive background checks, but some school districts are concerned about requiring more costs from their educators. Education Board attorney Scott Gordon says some districts already require fingerprint checks as a condition of ...

12 years ago
Police are investigating a theft from a vehicle parked outside a Salina truck stop. Police say that 41-year-old Robert Gaston from Eldorado reported a theft from his 1999 Ford Taurus. Gaston reports that he parked his car outside the Bosselman Travel Center at 1944 North 9th Street at 1:45 Wednesday afternoon while he went inside and dined ...

12 years ago
Gallery seating is now available to see Mike Huckabee speak in Salina. According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, open gallery seating is being made available for their Annual Banquet and Membership Meeting, Thursday, February 6, 2014 featuring the former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee. Huckabee is national voice familiar to Newsradio 1150 KSAL listeners. He ...

12 years ago
A flamingo that escaped from the Sedgwick County Zoo in 2005 has been spotted again, this time in Texas. A Massachusetts birder says the flamingo, known as No. 492 because of the number on its leg band, was seen last week off the Texas Gulf Coast. The bird was with a companion, a Yucatan-born Caribbean ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas has censured a former senior scientist in the Kansas Geological Survey over plagiarism allegations. A university committee found that Marios Sophocleous, a hydrology scientist, engaged in plagiarism and self-plagiarism in seven journal articles dealing with hydrology and groundwater. Sophocleous denies the allegations. He says he never copied the work of others or his ...

12 years ago
Approximately two dozen soldiers of the National Guard's 35th Infantry Division will soon be heading to Kosovo to fill positions in an ongoing NATO peacekeeping mission. The first of the soldiers will be honored in a departure ceremony Saturday at Fort Leavenworth where the division is headquartered. A second departure ceremony for remaining soldiers is scheduled ...

12 years ago
Kansas environmental officials are seeking volunteers to help count birds at Cheyenne Bottoms near Great Bend from Saturday through the first week of January. The Christmas Bird Count is an annual tradition across the U.S. More than 40 such counts are held across Kansas. The Kansas Wetlands Education Center and the Nature Conservancy are asking for help ...

12 years ago
The wife of Kansas Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce is free on bond after her arrest Wednesday afternoon on DUI and drug charges. Sarah Bruce of Nickerson was arrested after a two vehicle accident in the 100 block of South Main where Hutchinson Police say she’d backed into a vehicle in the 100 block of South ...

12 years ago
A giant blue crane that has been a big part of the renovation of the Kansas Statehouse for more than three years is coming down. Project Manager Jim Rinner says general contractor JE Dunn Construction expects the crane to be dismantled by the end of the week. Workers are using an equally large red crane to take ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in the appeals of two brothers sentenced to death for murders committed in December 2000. Justices have scheduled two-hour hearings on Tuesday for Jonathan Carr and his brother, Reginald Carr. The Carr brothers were convicted for killing three men and a woman on Dec. 15, 2000, as the ...

12 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts has announced he'll vote against a bipartisan budget deal, but the Kansas Republican's primary opponent says Roberts should have spoken up earlier. Roberts said Wednesday that he doesn't think the deal tackles major fiscal problems and represents only more taxing and spending. The deal was crafted by Republican House Budget Committee Chairman ...