9 years ago
An area business man and the Salina Police Department are working to find out who wrote fraudulent checks from an area business. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the checks were from Feb. 17, 2017. Mohanad Khmous, 45, of Manhattan, says that he found four fraudulent checks written on the business account for IHOP Restaurant ...

9 years ago
Police say a child has been rushed to a hospital in critical condition after being found in a hot car in Wichita. Sgt. Jesse Hancock reports that the girl and her siblings apparently had been playing hide and seek Monday before her father found her. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2qXIz9C ) reports that it wasn't immediately known ...

9 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is promising to veto an income tax increase approved by Kansas lawmakers to fix the state budget and meet a court mandate on school funding. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved a bill early Tuesday morning that would raise $1.2 billion over two years by repealing or rolling back past income tax cuts championed ...

9 years ago
The Kansas House has rejected a bill that would have raised income taxes and increased spending on public schools. The vote Monday was 91-32 against a bill that would have raised more than $1 billion over two years with higher taxes. The measure also would have phased in a $293 million increase in aid to public ...

9 years ago
OCCK, Inc. Transportation, including Salina CityGo, will be offering free rides and extended hours to patrons of the Smoky Hill River Festival. Any passengers with a River Festival button, that ride CityGo or Paratransit vehicles, will be allowed to ride for free on Thursday, June 8th, Friday, June 9th or Saturday, June 10th, 2017. CityGo passengers must ...

9 years ago
A new Kansas museum is giving enthusiasts of late motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel a jump on appreciating his death-defying, bone-breaking exploits. The $5-million, 13,000-square-foot homage to the man famous for rocket-powered and motorbike stunts before his 2007 death has opened in Topeka. As president of the two-story museum attached to his Harley-Davidson dealership, Mike Patterson says Knievel ...

9 years ago
A Salina man left his home for a few minutes to come back to find many of his belonging stolen. Jaylen Parks, 19, left his 226 1/2 S. 10th Street home in Salina. When he returned minutes later, he found his back door had been kicked in, Xbox One game console, eight pairs of Nike Retro ...

9 years ago
A Solomon man was traveling on Old 40 Highway in eastern Saline County when a loose piece of metal from a passing semi struck and shattered the windshield. Robert Billinger was traveling west near the intersection of  Old 40 and Gypsum Valley in his gold Chevy Impala. Headed eastbound on Old 40 was a silver International semi ...

9 years ago
Kansas is launching a project to help immigrants get driver's licenses in a meatpacking town by offering free translators during the driving exams. The effort stems from an agreement between Kansas driver's license officials and Kearney County Hospital in Lakin. Meatpacking plants are the largest employers in western Kansas and have drawn a diverse population to the ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators have a new, larger estimate for how much a plan drafted by Republican lawmakers would increase spending on public schools. The State Department of Education projected Monday that the plan would phase in a $293 million increase over two years. The previous estimate was $285 million. The plan ties the funding increase to another measure ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a 78-year-old kayaker has been found dead at a Kansas reservoir. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse said in a news release that the body of Dan Mehringer was discovered near the kayak around 3 p.m. Sunday at the Banner Creek Reservoir west of Holton. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Holton man was wearing ...