9 years ago
Angie Pickman of Lawrence, KS, a nationally recognized cut-paper artist, has been selected to design the 2017 Smoky Hill River Festival T-shirt. Pickman combines the art of traditional paper cutting with collage to create intricately detailed works of art and animation. “I like to use a lot of animals in my paper cuttings, but I’m best ...

9 years ago
Family and friends are searching for a Salina teen who has been missing since late January. According to the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, 15-year-old Guage Peterson is missing. Peterson is a white male. He is 5' 8" tall, and weighs 170 pounds. Peterson may wear glasses. He has a tattoo on his right arm. Peterson has ...

9 years ago
A worker was injured in a workplace fall on the k-State Campus in Manhattan late Wednesday afternoon. According to Kansas State University, shortly after 4:00 Wednesday afternoon K-State Police, K-State Environmental Health and Safety, and emergency personnel from the Manhattan Fire Department and Riley County EMS responded to a construction site at Pittman Building on the Manhattan ...

9 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has endorsed a proposal to use a "flat" personal income tax to raise new revenue to fix the state's serious budget problems. The conservative Republican governor said in a statement Wednesday that he would sign a bill like one before the state Senate. It would impose a 4.6 percent rate for all filers ...

9 years ago
A federal judge has ordered Kansas' top elections official to produce a plan on homeland security issues that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump. U.S. Magistrate James O'Hara ruled Wednesday that the document from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach could be relevant to a federal lawsuit challenging a state law requiring new ...

9 years ago
A 54-year-old Kansas man will serve at least 50 years in prison for sex crimes against hildren. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said David Tidball, of WaKeeny, was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive life sentences with a minimum of 50 years served. Tidball also was sentenced to a third life sentence and four years and four months ...

9 years ago
A former University of Kansas theater student is suing the school, alleging it failed to investigate claims he was sexually harassed. The lawsuit alleges a professor invited the then-student to his home for dinner in 2015, wrongly telling him other students would also be in attendance. The man alleges the professor was intoxicated, forcefully kissed him and ...

9 years ago
Kansas pioneers - sometimes played sports to blaze a trail for the rest to follow. Coming up Thursday, April 6 at the Smoky Hill Museum presents, "Throw Like a Girl." The discussion will take a look at female athletes from Kansas who persevered through difficulties on the field, court and arena. Laura Hartley is the a public historian ...

9 years ago
Ranchers in three states affected by wildfires have been given a temporary suspension of grazing restrictions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday authorized emergency grazing on Conservation Reserve Program lands in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The agency says wildfires in Kansas burned about 630,000 acres with estimated livestock losses of between 3,000 and 9,000 cattle. About ...

9 years ago
A social media post has a Manhattan High School student in hot water. Riley County Police were made aware of the post from April 4th on the social media site "Snapchat." Authorities say a 15-year old male Manhattan High student posted a picture to his Snapchat account that had what appeared to be two handguns with the ...

9 years ago
Topeka based Payless shoes is closing 400 stores across the country. The Payless shoe store in the Salina Central Mall is not among them, and will stay open. Other communities in Kansas are not so fortunate, though. Payless stores in Great Bend, Hutchinson, Liberal, and Emporia are closing. The shoe chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...