9 years ago
Kansas residents are getting a sales tax break to rebuild fences on agricultural land after wildfires burned more than 1,000 square miles. Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill Wednesday that would allow people to buy supplies to rebuild their fences without paying sales tax. It goes toward rebuilding fences that burned, not new construction. The Legislature ...

9 years ago
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the University of Kansas by parents of two former rowers who alleged they were sexually assaulted by a former football player in a dorm. The Kansas City Star reports Douglas County District Judge B. Kay Hoff dismissed the lawsuit on Friday, ruling that the former rowers have left the ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators are trying to avoid the kind funding moves with public employee pensions that previously clouded the retirement system's long-term financial health. But lawmakers are wrestling with the state's serious budget problems and were not sure Wednesday whether the state could afford its full, annual commitments. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed freezing annual pension contributions ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a man was beaten unconscious at a motel. Officers were called to the Value Inn, 1640 W. Crawford around 4:15am Wednesday morning after a witness saw a suspect repeatedly hit a man in the face. Police found 54-year-old John Edwardson lying on the floor of his motel room unconscious and had EMS ...

9 years ago
Sears, once the monolith of American retail, says that there is "substantial doubt" that it will be able to keep its doors open. Company shares, which hit an all-time low last month, tumbled more than 5 percent before the opening bell Wednesday. Chairman and CEO Edward Lampert's hedge fund has forwarded millions in funding to keep Sears ...

9 years ago
An elderly Saline County woman was duped for over $17,000 through a telephone scam. According to Sheriff Roger Soldan,  a man identifying himself as Sergeant Bradshaw with the U.S. Embassy in Dominican Republic told the 81-year-old woman over the phone on Monday that her grandson had been arrested there for possession of marijuana. He then convinced her ...

9 years ago
An eyewitness who saw a teenager fire a gun into the air helped police locate him a short time later at a grocery store. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News 16-year-old Johnathan Hulse was arrested Tuesday evening around 5:30pm at the Dillon's Supermarket, 1235 E. Cloud Street after allegedly firing one round from a semi automatic ...

9 years ago
The Saline County Commission issued a mandatory 7 day ban on the open burning of any waste, normal household trash in a container, structures or vegetation within the boundaries of Saline County.  The ban includes the City of Salina.  The ban will be in place until it is specifically rescinded by the Commission. The resolution notes ...

9 years ago
Ohio farmers are sending hay, fencing materials and other supplies to Kansas to help ranches that were devastated by wildfires this month. Rose Hartschuh runs a dairy farm with her husband near Bucyrus (byoo-SY'-rus), Ohio, and helped coordinate the assistance from farmers and agricultural businesses. She says though the fires were 1,000 miles away, the devastation ...

9 years ago
A Topeka man was sentenced to 47 months in federal prison for the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 30-year-old Reginald Eugene Newman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Monday that Newman admitted in his plea to taking a teenage girl in ...

9 years ago
Patients, doctors and advocates are pushing to expand Kansas' Medicaid system despite an ongoing effort in Washington to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law. The Senate Public Health and Welfare committee heard testimony Monday on a bill that would expand Medicaid to between 100,000 and 200,000 low-income adults. The measure passed the ...