8 years ago
The flu is prompting a northwest Kansas school district to close. Students in the Norton Community Schools will get an unplanned break from classes today and tomorrow due to widespread illness. Officials say classrooms will be disinfected and students will return to school on Monday. Story from Metro Source

8 years ago
After five years of fruitful partnership, two Kansas organizations hope to create even more of a good thing. In January 2013, Kansas State University and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home in Abilene entered a partnership to give researchers greater access to both institutions' scholarly assets. Now, the two organizations have recommitted to ...

8 years ago
When Kansas State University Polytechnic student Jacob Cowart was 12 years old, he went to a flight camp where he was able to take the controls and fly. After that, he was hooked on flying. But the process of piloting an airplane is not easy for Cowart, who has been wheelchair-bound most of his life. Airplanes ...

8 years ago
The death of a Fort Riley soldier in Germany is under investigation. According to the Army, 34-year-old First Sgt. Nicholas S. Amsberry died on Sunday while deployed to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany. Amsberry was found near the train station in Parsberg, Germany. The discovery was reported to the German police and Parsberg emergency ...

8 years ago
Authorities are investigating after a Kansas fire station caught fire. The blaze broke out yesterday at the Butler County Rural Fire District Five station. Local volunteer firefighters extinguished the fire, which destroyed a garage and truck. No injuries were reported in the incident.

8 years ago
Harvey County is recovering from a cyberattack. Officials say part of the county's computer network was disabled in this week's attack and they are working with insurance providers and cyber security experts to recover lost data. The county does not believe personal information of employees and residents was compromised in the attack. The attack was discovered on Sunday ...

8 years ago
A Kansas professor and father of three is facing deportation. Syed Ahmed Jamal lawfully traveled to the U.S. over 30-years ago on an education visa from Bangladesh and continued to obtain various student visas while pursuing graduate degrees. Eventually Jamal applied for and obtained an H-1B visa for highly skilled workers, which allowed him to go to ...

8 years ago
No one was injured in a wrong way crash last night on North 9th Street. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that a 78-year-old man from Knoxville, Tennessee exited I-70 Tuesday evening around 7pm and drove his Chevy Tahoe pulling an enclosed trailer southbound in the northbound lanes in the 1800 block of N. 9th. Police say ...

8 years ago
A man from Idaho was injured when he crashed on Interstate 70 while being pursed by law enforcement. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol 28-year-old Robert Austin Moore from Spirit Lake, Idaho, was being pursued by troopers. He was headed west. When a trooper threw stop sticks, Moore attempted to avoid them, lost control, left the road, ...

8 years ago
Kansas residents could soon be paying lower grocery taxes. A proposal in the legislature calls for allowing voters to decide if they want to pay less at the grocery store. The measure calls for lowering the grocery tax to four percent by July 2019 and to two percent in July 2020. If the proposal is approved by lawmakers, ...

8 years ago
A vehicle thief is caught sitting in the van he allegedly stole on Tuesday morning. Police arrested 22-year-old Brook Gray after an officer on patrol spotted the 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan parked in the lot at Wal-Mart, 2900 S.9th. Police say Gray entered an unlocked home in the 100 block of Bond around 1:15am Tuesday and lifted ...