9 years ago
Kansas students will spend less time taking tests under recently announced changes. The Kansas State Department of Education is reducing the total required material to be assessed by 60 percent next school year. Education officials said the changes follow conversations with superintendents, principals, teachers and advocacy groups during the latest round of testing. Education department official Beth ...

10 years ago
As Crisis Intervention Team Week drew to a close, Mayor Kaye Crawford congratulated the police officers and sheriff deputies who attended the inaugural 40 hour, week-long training.  She said she wanted residents to know Salina has a crisis intervention team and noted the training will help officers intervene when they are dealing with individuals with ...

10 years ago
A Lindsborg man is accused of child sex crimes in a foreign country. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, 53-year-old Anthony Shultz appeared in federal court Friday  on charges of traveling to a foreign country to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. He was charged with one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a ...

10 years ago
Martial arts action with a message is coming to Salina. The Xtreme Force live action show featuring the Ninja Turtles is coming to the Salina Bicentennial Center. According to the Bi-Center, the show is full of martial arts action and has a powerful anti-bullying message. The performers are some of the top martial artists in the country and ...

10 years ago
They will be howling at the moon next month during the 6th Annual Night with the Yotes at the Bicentennial Center. "It started out six years ago with just some coaches trying to do something at the end of the year to have some fun and to raise a little money and get the community involved," ...

10 years ago
A southern Kansas man has been convicted in the 2014 death and sexual assault of 100-year-old woman. A Sedgwick County jury deliberated about two hours Thursday before convicting Kasey Nesbitt of first-degree felony murder, rape and aggravated burglary with the intent to commit a sexual assault. Jurors concluded that Nesbitt kicked in Martha Schell's door and assaulted ...

10 years ago
Officials say the sugarcane aphid has returned to Kansas. The Wichita Eagle reports that the tiny Southern pests have threatened grain sorghum, or milo, fields in the Sunflower State the previous two years. Kansas is the nation's leading producer of grain sorghum. Aphids were reported and confirmed in fields in Sumner and Cowley counties this week. Officials are ...

10 years ago
Kansas is suing the federal government to obtain documents related to planning by President Barack Obama's administration to move prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Fort Leavenworth. Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court in Kansas against the U.S. Department of Defense. Schmidt's office filed a freedom of information request in December ...

10 years ago
A Wichita man is in custody following an investigation into a burglary and beating of a Salina resident. Police arrested 31-year-old Reggie T. Benoit on charges that stem from an incident on March 16th at 719 N. 7th Street. Police allege that on that date, Benoit and a black, male suspect burst into the home just after ...

10 years ago
A Salina woman swerves in front of a police officer's car before being arrested for DUI. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 21-year-old Brittney Brouillard was headed southbound on College at about 2:20am Friday and turned in front of a police cruiser to make a turn onto Park. Patrol Officer Randy Constantino, swerved his vehicle to avoid a ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on a man convicted of fatally shooting a sheriff during a 2005 drug raid. Kansas hasn't executed anyone in more than 50 years, and Friday's decision in Scott Cheever's case is only the second time the court has upheld a death sentence under the state's 1994 ...