9 years ago
Authorities say a third-grade Wichita teacher has been arrested on suspicion of being a drug dealer after a two-month investigation. Records show the 48-year-old teacher was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on Tuesday. Sedgwick County Sheriff's Lt. Lin Dehning says she was arrested on suspicion of seven counts of cocaine distribution. She is being held ...

9 years ago
A security researcher says a lapse has exposed data from millions of Verizon customers, leaking names, addresses and personal identification numbers, or PINs. Verizon Wireless says 6 million customers were affected, but the company says that none of the information made it into the wrong hands. The company says the only person who got access to ...

9 years ago
Enrollment for Salina USD 305 schools begins on Wednesday. According to the district, USD 305 online enrollment for returning students started Wednesday morning. Parents need to login to Skyward to enroll their children. If enrolling new students to the district, parents will need to complete enrollment through the walk-in process. Walk-in enrollment for all schools will be held ...

9 years ago
Some Kansas pools and water parks have closed their water slides in response to a new state law that tightened regulations on amusement park rides. Salina's Kenwood Cove is NOT among them. The law, which took effect July 1, was passed after a state lawmaker's son died last summer on the Verruckt water slide at Schlitterbahn ...

9 years ago
Salina Fieldhouse will come to life this week when it hosts its first ever events. The multi-million dollar facility opens on Thursday. Salina Parks and Recreation Superintendent Travis Scheele tells KSAL News the Jeff Hawkins KU Basketball Camp will be held on Thursday. There will be two sessions of the basket camp, one in the morning ...

9 years ago
Changes are being proposed to one of the CityGo bus routes in Salina. OCCK, Inc. Transportation is proposing changes to the CityGo Blue Route. As a result of a recent bus route study, they have proposed changes to the CityGo Blue Route to increase residential neighborhood and customer access.  They are proposing removing the North Street/Ohio Street/Pacific ...

9 years ago
A Lyons man operating as a contractor has been banned from door-to-door sales and engaging in roofing services in Kansas and ordered to repay seven Kansas consumers. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Anthony Joe Jeffery, a.k.a. Tony Brown, d/b/a Quality Construction, d/b/a Quality Paving, d/b/a Quality Coatings, d/b/a Asphalt Maintenance, d/b/a Pro-Tech was ordered ...

9 years ago
Attorney James T. Wicks has joined Saint Francis Community Services as General Counsel. According to St. Francis, Wicks, formerly with the Kansas City office of the St. Louis-based Bryan Cave law firm, is a seasoned litigator whose areas of focus include regulatory, employment and contract law, as well as compliance matters. “Saint Francis is thrilled to have ...

9 years ago
The government has updated its forecast for winter wheat production now that harvest is under way across the nation's breadbasket. The National Agricultural Statistics Service projected on Wednesday that U.S. growers would bring in 1.28 billion bushels of winter wheat. That is up 2 percent from last month's forecast, but is still down 23 percent from ...

9 years ago
A power outage in southwest Kansas was found to be caused by a bobcat. The Wichita Eagle reports that a crew from Wheatland Electric found the bobcat atop a 35-foot utility pole on Tuesday near Lakin. The animal came into contact with a pair of electrified lines and died immediately. The line crew had used a bucket ...

9 years ago
Authorities say five people have died in a fiery six-vehicle wreck that temporarily closed a stretch of Interstate 70 on the western edge of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Kansas Turnpike Authority says the crash happened Tuesday afternoon when a tractor-trailer crested a slight hill and failed to slow for traffic that was stalled because ...