10 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a residential burglary east of Salina. Captain Roger Soldan reports that Greg Newton contacted authorities after he went to add to his coin collection on Sunday and discovered it was missing. Deputies say sometime between January 16th and February 14th, someone entered the home in the 3200 block of E. ...

10 years ago
Protesters gathered outside of the Great Bend School District offices. A large crowd gathered Monday to speak out against the district's response to an alleged sexual assault on a school bus carrying the Great Bend High School boys' swim team on February 6th. KAKE reports that Great Bend students surrounded Superintendent Brad Reed as he exited the ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas law enforcement would be required to file a missing person report within two hours of receiving a minimum amount of information under a bill approved by a Senate committee. The measure that passed Monday in the Senate Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee sets a specific time period in which the report ...

10 years ago
A new bill being discussed in Topeka would link Kansas with six other states around the nation that have a maximum speed limit of 80 miles per hour. If HB 2450 becomes law - Kansas would join South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah in allowing drivers to travel at 80-mph on designated separated, multi-lane ...

10 years ago
Bill Snead, an award-winning news photographer from Kansas whose career included covering wars and national political conventions, has died. He was 78. Snead's wife, Dona (DOH-nuh) Snead, said Monday that Snead died at his Lawrence home Sunday after struggling for several months with advanced lung cancer. Snead spent 21 years with The Washington Post, including as a ...

10 years ago
Police were called to a Salina neighborhood after a couple of men wrestled an airsoft gun away from a would-be robber in the 100 block of E. Prescott. Police arrested 31-year-old Danny Lee Barnhouse early Saturday morning after he allegedly pointed a realistic looking assault rifle at Nicholas Briggs and demanded money. Police say Briggs and his ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was treated at the hospital for stab wounds and kept for observation after being attacked by a known suspect. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a man in his 40's was reportedly driving an acquaintance to the Howard Johnson Inn, 222 E. Diamond Drive on Sunday night around 7:30pm. The victim told ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A union representing Kansas teachers has filed two district court lawsuits alleging three teachers were removed from their positions without independent hearings, even though they earned tenure before the state Legislature repealed teacher protections in 2014. The lawsuits filed by the Kansas National Education Association come as the union and the state ...

10 years ago
The University of Kansas Endowment is using its own crowdfunding campaign to raise money for smaller projects on campus. The campaign, called Launch KU, is designed to bring in money for projects such as replacing 10 musicians' chairs at Swarthout Recital hall or bringing therapy dogs to campus. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1RCUgbn) the first seven projects ...

10 years ago
A split vote last month on an abortion issue is the first time in Kansas Court of Appeals' history that it has reached a deadlock. The 14-member court was evenly divided in a Jan. 22 vote on whether the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion. The main reasons there have been no previous ties is ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas lawmakers want to restrict public access to law enforcement body camera footage in an effort to protect the privacy of people caught on camera. A bill introduced by the House judiciary committee last week would limit release of the video to the people in the footage, their attorneys and their parents ...