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The statewide tornado drill in Kansas will be Tuesday night at 6:30. The evening time for the drill is a little different this year. It is closer to the time when many tornadoes occur. The drill will include test tornado warnings from the National Weather Service, activation of weather radios, and activation of outdoor warning sirens ...

10 years ago
According to the Salina Police Department, a team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will be in Salina on Sunday to examine all aspects of the departments policies and practices. As a part of the on-site assessment, agency employees and members of the community are invited to offer comments at ...

10 years ago
A Dodge City woman accused of creating a video of herself engaged in a sex act with a child under 5 years old and uploading it to the Internet has pleaded guilty. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said that 25-year-old Ashley Marie Kelly pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography on Monday. Grissom said that ...

10 years ago
Jurors in the quadruple homicide trial of an eastern Kansas man have been shown crime scene photos. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the photos were shown Monday as the second week in the trial of 30-year-old Kyle T. Flack began in Franklin County District Court. He is charged with capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Kaylie ...

10 years ago
Firefighters from Mcpherson County Fire District #2 responded to a grass fire Monday that may have been sparked by a man hooking up a trailer in Falun. Captain Roger Soldan with the Saline County's Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that Scott Miller was hooking up a trailer in an open field at 200 North Mound when ...

10 years ago
The Dane G. Hansen Foundation of Logan, Kansas has named 260 high school seniors from 59 Northwest Kansas schools as winners in its 41st annual scholarship competition.  In addition, fifteen scholarships have been awarded to Kansas Community or Technical College Transfer students who are planning to continue their education at a Kansas four-year college or ...

10 years ago
A north-central Kansas man will be sentenced April 29 for the deaths of a Topeka father and daughter in a traffic collision. An Ottawa County jury convicted Jason Jeardoe of Bennington on Friday of two felony counts of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence of alcohol in the 2014 deaths of Jason and Emma Jo ...

10 years ago
A trio of Christian music favorites are coming to Salina. According to Premier Productions, three new dates have been added to Jeremy Camp's "I Will Follow Tour" with Mandisa and special guest Finding Favour. One of the new dates is in Salina. Platinum-selling recording artist Jeremy Camp is planning to embark on his I Will Follow Tour ...

10 years ago
Wichita police are investigating a report that two college students were attacked by a man shouting racial epithets and the name of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Wichita State University student body vice president Khondoker Usama, who is Muslim, said he and a Hispanic friend witnessed a white man calling a black customer a racial epithet ...

10 years ago
A Wichita lawmaker's bill would roll back a tax exemption for business owners in order to reduce sales tax on groceries. Republican Rep. Mark Hutton's bill is scheduled for a hearing Tuesday before the House Taxation Committee. It would remove the income tax break for owners of limited liability companies and other pass-through businesses. The Kansas Department ...

10 years ago
A recent report has determined that women in Kansas who work full-time, year-round earn 79 cents for every dollar made by men. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that the University of Kansas' Center for Science and Technology & Economic Policy was commissioned by the Women's Foundation to analyze factors such as economic well-being, health and civic ...