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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City man convicted of federal drug and weapons charges faces considerable prison time after authorities said he also killed five people. Rashawn Long was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison without parole for illegally possessing a controlled substance and firearms. Sentencing guidelines would have called for about ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A 28-year-old man is behind bars after having second thoughts about an early morning convenience store robbery and turning himself in. The Wichita Eagle reports a man walked into a Kwik Shop in northeast Wichita around 2 a.m. Friday, indicated he had a weapon and demanded money from the cash register. Wichita Police ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A coalition of voting rights groups have sued a federal elections official who required residents of Kansas, Alabama and Georgia to provide proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote using a national form. The federal lawsuit, filed late Friday, also names as defendant the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. It ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Senate has passed a bill blocking a state regulatory commission from spending money to study how to comply with new federal clean-power rules until a legal challenge is resolved. The chamber's 37-2 vote on Thursday night sends the measure to the House. The vote came just two days after a divided U.S. Supreme Court ...

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Festival fans will be crossing the bridge into Oakdale Park just 119 days from now. Brad Anderson the Executive Director of Salina Arts and Humanities admits he keeps a running countdown in his head as he joined in on the KSAL Morning News on Friday. "A majority of the entertainment has been selected the art shows are ...

10 years ago
On the heels of the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling on funding for public education, Salina area Representative J.R. Claeys,(R) joined in on the KSAL Morning News Friday with his reaction. Claeys expressed his concern with the high court's ruling he says will take the state back to an antiquated funding formula, "They want the old formula ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a couple of vehicles were stolen. Police are searching for a 1992 Chevy S-10 pickup that has not been returned to its owner. The owner told police a friend borrowed the truck on Monday evening a did not return it. The gray Chevy truck has a Kansas tag: 586 CCD ...

10 years ago
Officials are trying to hammer out a deal to address competing water needs of south-central Kansas irrigators and a national wildlife refuge that's lost considerable water to them. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which operates the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, has been asking Kansas for years to address the fact that hundreds of area farmers ...

10 years ago
Multiple construction tools were stolen from a garage. Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary in the 100 block of W. Jewell that occurred sometime after midnight on Monday and 5:56pm on Thursday. The owner told officers that someone entered the garage and took a hammer drill, impact drill, multiple tool batteries, air impact wrench, air compressor, ...

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Two inmates at the Saline County Jail are now facing additional charges after two unrelated incidents this week. According to Lt. Mike Smith with the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a male inmate verbally threatened a corrections officer on Tuesday evening while being served dinner. Smith says the inmate then drenched the officer with a cup of orange ...

10 years ago
A Texas man wanted for indecent liberties with a Salina girl has been booked into the Saline County Jail. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, 26-year-old Jahir Ortiz of Huntsville, was transported from Texas this week to Salina on a warrant request that ties back to the sexual molestation of a girl under the age of ...