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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed into law a measure that creates an independent task force to review the state's child welfare system. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the measure was in response to the deaths of a number of children who had been in state custody. It also followed a series of audit reports that were ...

8 years ago
A judge has fined Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach $1,000 for misleading the court about the contents of materials he was photographed taking into a November meeting with then President-elect Donald Trump. The ruling Friday by U.S. Magistrate Judge James O'Hara also requires Kobach to submit to a deposition by the American Civil Liberties Union ...

8 years ago
A southern Kansas man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually attacked a mother of four before fatally setting her on fire. KWCH-TV reports that an attorney for 28-year-old Cornell McNeal of Wichita entered the pleas Friday on McNeal's behalf during a Sedgwick County arraignment. He's charged with capital murder in the November 2014 death ...

8 years ago
The northeast Kansas town of Holton will be torn again next week as the second in a series of trials starts for a well-known local man accused of sexually assaulting several women. The polarizing accusations against 22-year-old Jacob Ewing in this community of some 3,300 people have prompted his supporters to put up signs in their ...

8 years ago
For the seventh year in a row, most fireworks in Salina will be legal. Fireworks will go on sale in the City of Salina and in Saline County beginning on Tuesday. Fireworks can be discharged in Saline County the day they go on sale, Tuesday June 27th, between 8 a.m. and midnight through July 5th. While they ...

8 years ago
For the third year in row, a national study finds Kansas State University is the best education value in Kansas. K-State again tops SmartAsset's study of which schools provide the best bang for the educational buck in the Sunflower State. The study measures tuition, living costs, average scholarships and grants, starting salary upon graduation and retention ...

8 years ago
Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta says it will appeal a Kansas federal jury's awarding of nearly $218 million to Kansas farmers who sued the company over its introduction of a genetically modified corn seed variety. Syngenta says in a statement that it is "disappointed" by Friday's verdict after a three-week trial in Kansas City, Kansas. That case ...

8 years ago
This August, the U.S. will experience its first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years. Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic. What makes this one so special - at least for Americans - is that it will cut diagonally across ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the convictions for murder and other charges against the leader and self-proclaimed seer of a Kansas commune which lived off the life insurance payouts of its dead members. The state's highest court affirmed on Friday the convictions against Daniel U. Perez. Perez was also convicted of fraud for lying ...

8 years ago
This weekend marks the one year anniversary of an unsolved Saline County murder. Back on June 25th, 2016, authorities were called to 10525 South Hopkins Road near Assaria to investigate the murder of 57-year-old Lori Heimer. A year later the case remains unsolved. Saline County Sheriff Office Investigators are working alongside Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents ...

8 years ago
The City, with the help of HDR, is working to refine design elements presented in the Smoky Hill River Renewal Master Plan that was adopted in 2010. As part of this process, the City is gathering input on proposed improvements through a brief online survey that can be completed through July 7 at www.salina-ks.gov/riverrenewal. A steering ...