12 years ago
Kansas and Arizona are asking a court to force a federal agency to quickly modify voter registration forms so the states can fully enforce proof-of-citizenship laws for all new voters. The two states filed a request Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit they filed against the federal Election ...

12 years ago
Planned Parenthood and the state of Kansas have filed competing requests with a federal judge for a quick resolution of the organization's lawsuit against a new abortion restriction. Planned Parenthood is challenging a requirement that abortion providers' website home pages link to a state site on abortion and fetal development. The rule says the websites must ...

12 years ago
Six former agriculture secretaries have delivered the latest installment of the Landon Lecture series at Kansas State University. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Monday night's panel was made up of Mike Johanns, Ann Veneman, Dan Glickman, Mike Espy, Ed Schafer and John Block. Block served in the administration of President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986. He ...

12 years ago
A Minneapolis man driving a stolen plumbing van leads multiple law enforcement officers on a chase in and around Salina and Saline County Wednesday afternoon. The chase started when a Salina Police officer spotted a van from Reid Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning of Manhattan. The van had been reported stolen in Salina. The man driving the ...

12 years ago
A forgotten wedding set is reported stolen. Salina Police received a report from 67-year-old Norma Giger of Pacific, Missouri on Tuesday, after the woman stayed on East Diamond Drive at the Howard Johnson Hotel on October 6th. The woman told police she contacted staff at the hotel when she realized on her drive home, that she had ...

12 years ago
A confidential tip leads to the arrest of a Salina woman, police say is connected to an online Nigerian scam. According to Lt. Jim Norton, Salina Police arrested 51-year-old Simone A. Wortham, 619 S. Santa Fe Apt. D, on Tuesday evening after investigators found a pile of bogus money orders in her possession. Lt. Norton tells KSAL ...

12 years ago
The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in east-central Kansas is conducting its first roundup of its growing bison herd. A herd of 13 bison was brought from Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota to the Chase County preserve in 2009. Since then, the original herd of 13 has grown to 25 after several successful calving ...

12 years ago
A Kansas Wesleyan University team is competing on a national level against much larger schools, and beating them. According to the school, KWU debaters headed east last weekend for a national competition at the University of Central Missouri to face a tournament field of 32 teams from 20 states. KWU placed second in the Team Sweepstakes ...

12 years ago
Furloughed federal workers have made out like bandits in some states, reaping back pay for time off while simultaneously collecting unemployment benefits. But not in Kansas. Officials with the Kansas Department of Labor said 1,420 federal workers filed for unemployment insurance over the course of the 16-day shutdown, with the bulk of applications rolling in during the ...

12 years ago
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is explaining issues with the healthcare.gov website. She says President Obama did not know about the technical glitches that have hampered the website until days after it went live. Sebelius says that the President didn't find about the problems with the site until a few days ...

12 years ago
A man known to many in Salina for his love of the community theatre has passed away. The Salina Community Theatre announced the passing of Jack Stewart: "It is with the deepest sadness that we have to say that the magnificent Jack Stewart has passed away. Jack was a true champion on the theatre, on stage ...