12 years ago
A proposal by a federal agency's fiscal watchdog would strip higher Medicare payments from 72 of the 83 rural Kansas hospitals designated as "critical access hospitals." It is raising fears it will force some facilities to close in sparsely populated communities across the state. The report from the inspector general's office of the U.S. Department of ...

12 years ago
A downtown Salina microbrewery should be up and running in time for Oktoberfest. Monte Shadwick, owner of Blue Skye Brewery, says the brewery equipment showed up Tuesday morning. “We spent the day unloading and that’s a little bit like Christmas for the brewers,” Shadwick said. “We’ve got their crew here setting up. They’ll be here for ...

12 years ago
Search and rescue professionals from across the state will meet in Salina for a large training event. According to the Kansas Adjutant General's Office, the 6th annual Kansas Technical Rescue Conference begins on Tuesday. It is sponsored by the Kansas Search and Rescue Working Group, Kansas Division of Emergency Management, Adjutant General’s Department, Great Plains Joint ...

12 years ago
A central Kansas woman has been sentenced to two years of probation for embezzling more than $211,000 from a feedlot where she worked to pay off losses from her own cattle trading. The U.S. Attorney's office says 37-year-old Carrie Frederick of Sterling must also pay about $80,000 in restitution under the sentence she received Friday in ...

12 years ago
A majority of the prospective Kansas voters whose registrations were put on hold after the state began enforcing a proof-of-citizenship law claim no political affiliation. An Associated Press computer analysis shows that 57 percent of the registrations put on hold since the law took effect in January were from people listing themselves as unaffiliated. Such residents ...

12 years ago
A University of Kansas journalism professor is on leave, and facing criticism because of his Twitter post after the recent shootings in Washington, D.C., in which he says "blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters." David W. Guth, an associate professor of journalism, tweeted the ...

12 years ago
An ATV and mini-bike are stolen from a storage building. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that deputies are investigating a burglary and theft in the northwest Saline County town of Glendale. Deputies say that someone pushed a Polaris ATV and a small 50-cc dirt bike out of an open storage shed in the 100 ...

12 years ago
Community members gathered Friday morning to celebrate a large, unique children's project. A ribbon was cut in celebration of the official opening of America's largest fully accessible playground at Coronado Elementary School. Over 500 volunteers converged on the school on a Saturday morning back in July to do their part in helping build the one-of-a-kind ...

12 years ago
A Saline County School Resource Officer's vehicle is vandalized overnight. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a deputies car that was parked in the 300 block of E. Ellsworth had several windows smashed in the early morning hours of Friday. Deputies say the 2005 Ford Crown Victoria had the back window, and both driver side windows ...

12 years ago
A 1,000-piece collection of Jayhawk memorabilia will stay at the University of Kansas Union. James and Mary Asher of Overland Park, Kan., have donated $130,000 to the KU Endowment so the union can buy the collection. Bud Jennings began collecting the memorabilia in 1939. He donated it to the union four years ago, ...

12 years ago
A 74-year-old man is recovering from an accident at the Kansas State Fair that put him in the hospital. Valley Falls resident Earl Stevens suffered broken facial bones and other injuries in the accident two weeks ago. Stevens and his family camp at the fair every year for a long weekend. Stevens was on a sidewalk that crosses ...