12 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is awaiting further autopsy results after a toddler dies. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, deputies were called to Salina Regional Health Center last Wednesday after an 18-month old boy was brought to the hospital by his father with a head injury. Sheriff Kochanowski tells KSAL News that after surgery was performed in ...

12 years ago
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is announcing a plan to end a business "border war" with Kansas over economic development. Both states have used economic incentives and bonds to compete for businesses to locate or expand. Missouri and Kansas have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the efforts. Nixon planned to announce his proposal Tuesday ...

12 years ago
An Overland Park woman was forced out of her apartment after as much of 10 pounds of mercury spilled from an antique clock. Fire department spokesman Jason Rhodes says the liquid apparently spilled weeks ago on a back porch of the woman's apartment but she wasn't aware it was dangerous mercury until a relative saw ...

12 years ago
Another study is finding that the financial crisis is having a lasting effect on young people. Terri Friedline of the University of Kansas co-authored a study mapping the patterns in household net worth from 1999 to 2009. The study found that children in households where net worth declined grew up to have only about ...

12 years ago
Fort Hays State University has begun to offer five online master's programs, five online bachelor's programs and three certificate programs to students in the Middle East who are served by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University, commonly referred to as TAGIUNI, which is based in Amman, Jordan. A memorandum of understanding signed by Dr. Edward H. Hammond, FHSU ...

12 years ago
The U.S. Secretary of Defense has confirmed the death of the son of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma in the weekend crash of a plane that was en route from Salina, Kan., to Tulsa, Okla. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren says that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "was informed of Sen. Inhofe's son's death." Perry Inhofe was ...

12 years ago
A giant construction crane towering beside the Kansas Statehouse is coming down next month as a massive renovation of the building nears its end. And Statehouse Architect Barry Greis said Monday the cost of the 13-year project will fall a little short of the $332 million projected by state officials last year. The big crane has been ...

12 years ago
Salinans gathered on a wet, chilly, Monday morning at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month to honor all veterans. A nice crowd braved the weather and gathered for Veterans Day ceremonies at the Salina / Saline County War Memorial in Sunset Park. The event included original poetry read by Salinan Norma ...

12 years ago
Electronics are stolen from a Salina home. Police are investigating a burglary and theft case after a woman returned home on Friday afternoon and discovered numerous items missing. Police say someone entered a home in the 100 block of S. Chicago sometime between Wednesday evening at 6:30pm and Friday afternoon at 3:50pm and removed a 32-inch Samsung ...

12 years ago
The Kansas State Board of Education is expected to be asked next week to switch to standardized math and English tests called Smarter Balanced, which would end a 30-year reliance on the University of Kansas to create annual state exams. The director of the university's testing research center told the Topeka Capital-Journal the change probably wouldn't ...

12 years ago
Police are reviewing video footage after a window at a Salina business is smashed. Officers responded to a store alarm at B & K Prescription, 601 E. Iron, at 12:50am Monday morning after someone threw a brick through the front store window. Police say 2 men - a white, heavy set male in a red mask, dark ...