12 years ago
Services have been curtailed, including the closing of post commissaries as the partial federal government shutdown takes effect at Kansas military installations. Maj. Martin O'Donnell, spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, says Wednesday that initially the impact isn't being noticed on the northeast Kansas post, though the effects will be felt the ...

12 years ago
The ex-wife of the sniper who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area more than a decade ago is talking about domestic violence at Fort Riley. Mildred Muhammad will speak from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday at the Parent Central/Kids on Site Child Care facility. The event is part of a month-long series of events scheduled to ...

12 years ago
A new audit of a Kansas incentive program shows that counties in suburban Kansas City have been the main beneficiaries of the program. The Promoting Employment Across Kansas program allows a firm creating jobs to keep 95 percent of those employees' state income taxes for up to seven years. The state auditors estimated PEAK ...

12 years ago
A Kansas Department of Corrections official says it has plans for adding space for 640 inmates at the state's maximum-security prison outside El Dorado by July 2019. Director of Capital Improvements Michael Gaito discussed the department's plans during Wednesday's meeting of the Legislature's Joint Committee on State Building Construction. The department is planning two ...

12 years ago
The Salina VA clinic will remain open despite the federal government shutdown. According to the agency office in Wichita, it’s important to know that the Veterans Health Administration, the branch of VA that operates our VA medical centers, including the Robert J. Dole VAMC in Wichita, KS and the Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Fort Dodge, ...

12 years ago
A house fire in Wichita has injured two people and displaced a family of 10. The Wichita Eagle reports the fire broke out early Wednesday at the home, where two adults and eight children lived. A 17-year-old was taken to hospital burn unit for treatment. A Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor said a second person was injured but ...

12 years ago
Police are investigating a burglary and theft from a Salina apartment. Police say Maximo Mereno returned to his home in the 100 block of N. Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon at 4pm, and found the door had been kicked in. Thieves removed a 16-inch Intel computer monitor, 16-inch Samsung flat screen TV, Philips brand DVD player, two wristwatches ...

12 years ago
The federal government shutdown has hit Kansas, where signs have been posted at Farm Service Agency offices around the state saying the offices will reopen once Congress restores federal funding. The federal shutdown began shortly after midnight Monday, when Congress couldn't reach a budget deal. Funding for the Affordable Care Act is the main contention ...

12 years ago
Fort Riley civilian employees received notices of furloughs Tuesday following a government shutdown effective 12:01 a.m. Eastern Oct. 1. Furloughs will affect hundreds of civilian workers across a broad spectrum of services at Fort Riley. Effects of the shutdown will vary across the post. “Annual funding for the federal government expired on September 30, 2013,” Fort ...

12 years ago
Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss announced today that the Supreme Court has reappointed Jerome P. Hellmer to a two-year term as Chief Judge of the 28th Judicial District, effective January 1, 2014. Judge Hellmer has served as a district judge since 1996 in the 28th Judicial District. He presides over cases in Saline ...

12 years ago
A 65-year-old man has died after his pickup truck was hit by a tractor-trailer that was trying to pass on a northeast Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Larry Roger Mueller, of Hanover, was eastbound on U.S. 36 when the semi tried to pass his pickup. The semi couldn't complete the pass and moved back ...