13 years ago
“I have two goals for my rodeo career these days, and they’re pretty simple. I intend to always try my hardest, and to have fun while I’m doing it.” Then, the bareback bronc rider contended, “If I win something along the way, that’s just a plus for trying hard and enjoying myself while I’m doing it.” Certainly, ...

13 years ago
Kansas Lottery officials are urging residents to check their pockets, dashboards and bags to see who is holding a Powerball ticket worth $1 million. Lottery spokeswoman Sally Lunsford says Tuesday that the ticket is valid only through Jan. 27, 2014, one year after it was sold. Lunsford says it is unusual for the lottery to ...

13 years ago
The first public flu shot clinic of the season in Salina is scheduled for this week. According to the health department, a drive-thru-or walk-in clinic will be held on Wednesday at the 4-H Building from 11 am till 6 pm. Cost is $30, payable at time of injection. Receipts will be available. Persons with the following health plans, ...

13 years ago
A Kansas dairy is trying to raise $650,000 in less than two months to pay off its debt and exit bankruptcy. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Iwig Family Dairy, based in Tecumseh, hopes to raise $650,000 in 45 days through online donations. The dairy announced the fundraising campaign in a news release Tuesday. Iwig filed for Chapter ...

13 years ago
Kansas has been awarded $3.1 million in federal grants under the Affordable Care Act. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Kansas Department of Insurance say the money will be used to support the state's efforts to review health insurance rate requests and provide data on different prices charged by health care providers. The grants are ...

13 years ago
A Wabaunsee County woman faces federal charges accusing her of embezzling from a scientific research institute at Kansas State University. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 51-year-old Linda Kay Miller, of Alma, is charged with three counts of interstate transportation of fraudulently altered securities. The government is seeking a money judgment of about $16,500 against Miller. ...

13 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a stolen car. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, an 18-year-old student at Kansas Wesleyan University contacted police after realizing her car was not in a school parking lot on E. Claflin. Police say someone removed the black, 2006 Nissan Altima that was parked in a campus lot near Pfeiffer Hall sometime between ...

13 years ago
A road construction project near Salina South High School enters its second phase this week. According to the City of Salina, On Wednesday crews will begin the second of two phases of the removal and replacement of the pavement at the Magnolia Road and Belmont Boulevard intersection. The second phase of work will be to replace ...

13 years ago
A journalism school is seeking to use drones to gather news. The University of Missouri's journalism school plans to seek approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to resume the use of news-gathering drones. The federal agency has ordered the university as well as the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to stop flying the drones outdoors until they obtain government ...

13 years ago
Kansas residents with concealed carry permits will now be allowed to carry their weapons in Alabama. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday that Alabama has become the 34th state to honor permits issued in Kansas. Schmidt said Alabama enacted a law recognizing permits from all other states, starting Aug. 1. It did so after Kansas enacted a ...

13 years ago
A Vatican official is expected in Kansas to complete an investigation into a possible miracle that could help elevate a Kansas priest to sainthood. Italian lawyer Andrea Ambrosi returns to Kansas on Saturday to finalize the investigation into whether the Rev. Emil Kapaun, a Kansas priest who died in 1951 in a North Korean prisoner-of-war ...