10 years ago
Lobbyists have spent more than $500,000 entertaining Kansas lawmakers so far this year. Kansas law prohibits lobbyists from making campaign donations during the session and limits their spending to $100 on lawmaker gifts. But Kansas doesn't limit the amount of food and drink a lobbyist can buy lawmakers. Lobbyists have spent more than $500,000 since January treating ...

10 years ago
The University of Kansas won't give out employee raises while there's still a chance for last-minute state budget cuts. Provost Jeff Vitter says the university budgeted midyear, merit-based salary increases for select employees that would comprise about 1 percent of the university's salary budget. Vitter wrote in a recent memo to university faculty and staff that extending ...

10 years ago
A legal fight is brewing over the $20.6 million estate of a western Kansas man whose will was changed shortly before his January 2013 death. At issue is a letter typed on 98-year-old Earl O. Field's stationary that said he had decided to strip the Fort Hays State University Foundation as the primary beneficiary and instead ...

10 years ago
Kansas is getting nearly $5.6 million from the federal government to help people who are having trouble finding jobs get into work or training. The grant from the Workforce Innovation Fund will pay for on-the-job training, job preparation and placement services. It also will go toward developing an online portal for people looking for help with ...

10 years ago
It was a blessing to be at Rolling Hills Zoo Saturday afternoon, literally. The animals, and many of their keepers, were blessed. Father Benjamin Thomas from Christ Cathedral performed blessings on many of the animals throughout the zoo. Father Benjamin visited and blessed the big cats, the painted dogs, the reptiles, the primates, the camels, the ...

10 years ago
Attorneys for Kansas school districts suing the state over its school funding formula have asked the Kansas Supreme Court to lift a stay on a lower court ruling, but the state responded that the lower court failed to properly evaluate the case. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1Vt152v) reports a three-judge panel found the state's newly enacted strategy ...

10 years ago
Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp says the next U.S. House speaker faces rebuilding the trust of his fellow conservatives. Huelskamp said Friday in an interview that he hasn't yet endorsed a candidate to replace outgoing Speaker John Boenher next month. Huelskamp is a tea party favorite who represents the 1st District of western and central Kansas and has ...

10 years ago
Hundreds of state workers have been shuffled into new positions at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and other agencies. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that documents show Gov. Sam Brownback ordered the moves based on a study the effected workers haven't seen. Kansas Organization of State Employees director Rebecca ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is recovering from injuries he sustained last night in an aggravated robbery last night on the 1200 block of South 7th Street. The victim told police that he was attacked by two men in their twenties; one was white, the other black. The victim was allegedly punched in the face by one ...

10 years ago
Two thefts were reported yesterday in Salina. A black BMX Dark Star bicycle was stolen at Cottonwood Elementary. The bike is valued at $600. $1500 in lawn equipment was stolen from the 300 block of South Connecticut. Two gas powered string trimmers, a gas powered backpack blower, and a hand held gas powered blower were ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is in police custody after being arrested on warrant for sexual exploitation. Austin Cart, 21 of Salina, is being charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child and promoting obscenity to a child. Police say Cart was exchanging pictures that were sexual in nature to a 17-year-old female on a ...