9 years ago
Kansas State University is remembering 48 students who died in World War I as the nation marks the recent 100-year anniversary of entering the global conflict. The Manhattan Mercury reports that the event is planned for April 21 at Memorial Stadium, where football games were played from the 1920s through 1967. Among the soldiers to be honored ...

9 years ago
A weekend fire badly damaged a South Salina fourplex apartment unit. First responders were called during the noon hour Sunday to the report of a fire in the Schilling area, at 2949 Foxboro. Salina Fire Department Battalion Chief David Turner told KSAL News at the scene that the front of the complex was fully involved when ...

9 years ago
Kansas State University is celebrating the sight of a lifetime: the Great American Eclipse of 2017. On Aug. 21, the moon will completely cover the sun and portions of the U.S. — including northeast Kansas — will experience a total eclipse of the sun. It is the first total eclipse of the sun visible in the ...

9 years ago
Have your little ones ready for some fun at the East Crawford Recreation Area at 841 Markley Road in Salina. This Saturday, April 15th are the 16th Annual Community-wide and 5th Annual Vision Impaired Easter Egg Hunts. The Community-wide Easter Egg Hunt begins on Field 3 at 10:30 A.M. for children age 4 and under, 11 A.M. for ...

9 years ago
Heavier trucks apparently will be allowed on some Kansas roads but only if they are hauling agricultural loads. The Kansas Legislature this week approved a bill that would allow six-axle semitrailer-tractor vehicle combinations with a gross weight of up to 90,000 pounds on some Kansas roads, if they are hauling farm commodities or livestock. The bill awaiting ...

9 years ago
Kansas lawmakers have agreed to strengthen the state's lax oversight of amusement park rides after a legislator's son was killed on a waterslide last year. The state Senate approved the bill Friday on 35-2 vote. The plan now heads to the governor. Rep. Scott Schwab's 10-year-old son Caleb died last summer on a water slide at Schlitterbahn ...

9 years ago
Kansas is taking steps to give parents of critically ill or disabled children more control over medical decisions about whether those children receive care to prolong their lives. Supporters of a bill signed into law Friday by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback hope it becomes a model for other states. The new law takes effect July 1. The ...

9 years ago
First responders and bystanders in Kansas will soon be able to administer life-saving drugs that stop the effects of opioid drug overdoses. Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill Friday allowing first responders to administer drugs like naloxone, called "opioid antagonists." The drugs stop fatal symptoms of prescription drug and heroin overdoses. The law also allows pharmacists ...

9 years ago
A Kansas jury has cleared a man of attempted-murder charges linked to a shooting nearly a year ago. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports a Shawnee County jury acquitted 29-year-old Joshua Mathews Yasuo Valdivia on Friday, also clearing him of a weapons count. Jurors did find him guilty of interference with a law enforcement officer. Valdivia testified Thursday, denying ...

9 years ago
A judge has dismissed a Kansas murder case against a woman who was arrested last year in the killing of a teenager nearly 30 years ago. Wyandotte County prosecutors issued a statement Friday announcing the dismissal of the case against 48-year-old Carolyn Heckert of Smithville, Missouri. They didn't say why it was dismissed. Heckert had been jailed ...

9 years ago
Lawrence, Kansas, officials approved the purchase of special equipment after utility workers found a thick coat of zebra mussels in one of the city's water transmission mains. An inspection found a nearly 2-inch thick layer of mussels stretching about 2,000 feet in the main. Utility officials say if the mussels are allowed to grow unchecked, they ...