10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Prosecutors say a Shawnee County sheriff's detective may have falsified information in charging affidavits. The Shawnee County district attorney's office sent a notice to defense attorneys. The notice says the detective stated she had spoken with people with whom she hadn't actually talked and that the information was used in a charging ...

10 years ago
More counterfeit money has surfaced in Salina. Police say that on Tuesday, someone attempted to make a purchase at the McDonald's restaurant at 701 S. Broadway using a counterfeit $20 bill. An employee recognized the bill as counterfeit, and called police. The person trying to pass the counterfeit bill left before officers arrived.

10 years ago
A Salina woman has been bilked out of over $7,000 while trying to secure a $5,000 loan in an online scam. Police say that a 36-year-old female applied for a $5,000 loan online, and was told that she was approved. To receive the loan, though she had to send various amounts of money to cover fees ...

10 years ago
An elderly Salina woman has been bilked out of $3,600. Salina Police say that a 71-year-old woman received a phone call from someone claiming to be her son in Las Vegas. She was told that he had been in a crash involving a rental car. A short time later, the woman received a call from someone ...

10 years ago
Several presidential hopefuls are setting their sights on the Sunflower State. Texas Senator Ted Cruz will hold a rally at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park Wednesday night at 6:30. Democrat Bernie Sanders will visit the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Lawrence Thursday evening. Florida Senator Marco Rubio will make a campaign appearance at Wichita's Jabara Airport on ...

10 years ago
A woman who was killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 70 has been identified as a Fort Riley soldier. The  military installation identified the victim Tuesday as Pfc. Coral Lynn Clark. The 24-year-old was a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist from Fort Worth, Texas. Clark joined the Army in March 2014. She was assigned to ...

10 years ago
HAYS, Kan. (AP) - The bodies of two workers have been recovered from a sewage trench that collapsed in the Ellis County city of Hays. Hays Director of Finance Kim Rupp said that emergency crews responded to a 911 call shortly after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and found three people trapped in the collapsed trench. Rupp said the ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas is reporting that it collected $54 million less in taxes than anticipated in February, and the shortfall creates new budget complications. The report Tuesday from the state Department of Revenue came only two weeks after the Republican-dominated Legislature passed a bill to eliminate a projected budget deficit of nearly $200 million ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has cut higher education spending by $17 million in response to a shortfall in tax collections for February. Brownback announced Tuesday that he ordered a 3 percent cut in the higher education system's allocation of state tax dollars under this fiscal year's budget. The Board of Regents and ...

10 years ago
Saline County Commissioners approved the purchase of two SUV and two 12 passenger vans for the Sheriff’s Office, in the amount of $127,258, with trade-ins. Commissioners studied ten “Requests for Action” involving aggregate, aggregate hauling, traffic paint, glass beads, road signs, traffic signs, bridge decking, bridge planks, corrugated metal pipe, and crack sealing projects. In changes ...

10 years ago
A fund has been established to help a single mother who lost everything when her home was destroyed by a fire last week. On Wednesday a fire destroyed a mobile home on N. 13th Street. A 3-year-old boy was killed in that fire, and two siblings and his grandmother were hurt. That fire spread to two other ...