10 years ago
GALENA, Kan. (AP) - Cherokee County spent about $28,000 on a grand jury investigation that led to charges that were ultimately dismissed. The county budgeted $50,000 for the investigation in 2015 after opponents of plans to build a landfill in Riverton petitioned for the investigation. Another $50,000 was set aside in the 2016 budget before the ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A legislative dispute over how Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected is a political struggle centering on Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The issue is whether Brownback and his supporters can make their conservative fiscal and social policies stick well into the future. Brownback and his allies contend their goal in seeking change is ...

10 years ago
The allure of star power brought out an enthusiastic crowd Saturday in Salina to bid on a wide variety of celebrity and sports memorabilia  items. The 27th Annual Child Advocacy and Parenting Services, or CAPS Auction did not disappoint. After all was said and done, over $100,000 was raised for the organization. The bidding was fast and ...

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The chairman of the Kansas House education committee says his panel won't vote on a school consolidation measure. Rep. Ron Highland, R-Wamego, told The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1RdVXvS) Saturday he doesn't intend to move forward this year with a House measure introduced by Rep. John Bradford, a Lansing Republican. The measure would pare down the number of ...

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A suburban Kansas City hospital has reported 18 cases of a gastrointestinal illness, and at least one of the cases has been preliminarily identified as norovirus. The University of Kansas Hospital's Marillac Campus this week reported 18 cases of a gastrointestinal illness, with 10 cases among patients and eight cases among staff. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting ...

10 years ago
Kansas apparently won't join several other states that have passed recent laws aimed at making it more difficult for domestic abusers to have weapons. Rep. Barbara Bollier, a Mission Hills Republican, last year proposed a bill that would create a gun restraining order that would allow courts and law enforcement to seize firearms from domestic abusers ...

10 years ago
The student newspaper at the University of Kansas has filed a federal lawsuit accusing university administrators of approving funding cuts to the newspaper that were enacted after an editorial critical of the student senate. The University Daily Kansan's leadership filed the lawsuit Friday, accusing university officials of approving funding cuts to the newspaper made by the ...

10 years ago
Two Kansas City, Kansas, men have been found guilty of attempted capital murder for shooting a Wyandotte County deputy multiple times while he was face down on a convenience store floor. The Kansas City Star (bit.ly/1X9qefI) reports 25-year-old Dyron King and 36-year-old Cecil Meggerson also were convicted Friday of multiple counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Health officials say Kansas has not had any confirmed cases of the Zika virus. The Zika virus, which is generally so mild that it only causes symptoms in about one out of five cases, raised concerns recently when doctors in Brazil started to notice a possible link between the virus - spread ...

10 years ago
When a group of British ladies decide to pose nude in hopes that their calendar will raise money for a local hospital - the charitable venture catches on with plenty of laughs to share. Director Michael Spicer joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look at Calendar Girls, set to open Friday night at ...

10 years ago
A 15-year-old boy was injured by a self-inflicted gunshot after he allegedly robbed a convenience store in Abilene. According to Abilene Police, officers on Thursday responded to Casey's General Store at 201 S. Buckeye to the report of an armed robbery. A person entered the store with a handgun, and demanded cigarettes and cash. A short time ...