13 years ago
A former Internal Revenue Service agent faces sentencing after admitting she was paid for meetings with taxpayers that never occurred. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil will decide Tuesday whether to accept the government's recommendation of probation for Becky L. Book of Pittsburg. Book pleaded guilty in February to receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments ...

13 years ago
Movie staff finds an empty wallet. A Salina man is out $500 cash after accidently leaving his wallet at the Starplex Cinemas at the Central Mall, 2259 S. 9th. Police say the 45-year-old man attended a movie Sunday night and realized the next morning he'd left his wallet behind. Staff found the wallet on the floor Sunday night, ...

13 years ago
Vandals damage a door at KDOT. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone shattered the door glass on a building used by the Kansas Department of Transportation, 1112 N. 3rd, sometime over the weekend between Friday at 5pm and Monday at 6:30am. Police say no entry was made into the building, after the 3-foot by 6-foot double pane ...

13 years ago
Salina's city commission will consider allowing liquor sales in the city on Sunday. The possibility arose during a meeting Monday, when the commission approved an ordinance that allows microbreweries in the city. During discussion of that ordinance, commissioners considered whether to allow Sunday liquor sales. Current Salina law prohibits Sunday sales at liquor stores and other places ...

13 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - An engineering firm says it plans to appeal a decision by federal regulators in favor of a whistleblower allegedly fired for reporting unsafe conditions at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Georgia based Enercon Services violated whistleblower protections when it retaliated against an engineer ...

13 years ago
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The tornadoes that have raked communities in Oklahoma, Texas and other states over the past week belie what has been an unusually slow start to the 2013 tornado season. In fact, this was the longest the U.S. had gone into May without registering an EF1 or stronger tornado, which are the types ...

13 years ago
Negotiations among Kansas legislators on tax issues are stalled amid bickering between Republican leaders in the House and Senate. Senators and House negotiators had no meetings Monday. House GOP leaders complained that Republican senators have not responded to their compromise proposal to drop the 6.3 percent state sales tax to 6 percent. The tax is now scheduled ...

13 years ago
Negotiators for the Kansas House and Senate still haven't decided when they'll resume talks aimed at reconciling differences between the two chambers on budget issues. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades of Newton was meeting privately Monday with other GOP House leaders. Lawmakers are working on proposed budgets of roughly $14.5 billion for each of the next ...

13 years ago
The trial of a Salina man charged in the abuse death of a toddler will be moved to Riley County. Antonio M. Brown is charged with first-degree murder and child abuse in the October 2011 death of his girlfriend's 14-month-old son, Clayden Lee Urbanek. Saline County District Court Administrator Todd Heitschmidt said Monday that county officials were ...

13 years ago
A man from Marquette is sentenced to 260 years in federal prison for using a 9-year-old child to produce child pornography. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, 50-year-old Philip Andra Grigsby pleaded guilty as charged to eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of unlawful ...

13 years ago
A favorable Kansas House vote is all supporters need for final legislative approval of restrictions on the use of state tax dollars for promoting or opposing gun-control measures. The bill also would prohibit using state tax dollars to lobby local, state or federal officials on the issue. The House planned to debate the measure Tuesday. The Senate ...