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A former U.S. Senator and Ambassador will appear at an event in Salina. Saint Francis Community Services will host a book signing event October 27th for John Danforth. Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest and former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations. According to St. Francis, Danforth will appear at a 5:30 p.m., private reception ...

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Thanks to good weather and popular concerts, the Kansas State Fair this year had its highest attendance since 1995. Fair officials announced Thursday that 369,322 attended the fair in September. That beat the previous high of 361,647 in 1995. The Hutchinson News reports it's unknown if attendance was the highest in the fair's 102-year-historty because audited ...

10 years ago
Sen. Jerry Moran's campaign has re-filed a campaign finance report after a Kansas woman found more than 200 pages missing from a federal website. The Wichita Eagle reports Moran's campaign found out Thursday that more than 200 pages of its July quarterly fundraising report was missing from the Federal Election Commission's website. The campaign re-filed the FEC ...

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A Colorado prosecutor says her office does not plan to file any charges against a man who allegedly voted in Kansas after doing so Colorado. Yuma County District Attorney Brittny Lewton said Friday that Lincoln L. Wilson did not commit perjury or voter fraud because he voted first in Colorado. She says it did not become ...

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An assistant professor who has accused Emporia State University of racial discrimination has filed a federal lawsuit, accusing the school of defamation and invasion of privacy. Melvin Hale filed the lawsuit Wednesday. He and his wife, Angelica, who are black, have been embroiled in confrontation with the university since April, when someone left a note with ...

10 years ago
A Wichita mathematician seeking to audit voting machine tapes after finding statistical anomalies in election counts is getting legal and other support in pursuing her lawsuit. Wichita State University statistician Beth Clarkson had been pursuing the case herself, but now has a Wichita lawyer representing her. Other people have set up a non-profit foundation for donations. A ...

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The top ranked professional championship bull riders in the world, two time CBR and PRCA World Champions Sage Steele Kimzey and Cody Teel are set to ride in Salina, Kansas. On March 26, 2016, at the Salina Bicentennial Center. Bull riding fans will have the rare opportunity to see these extraordinary cowboy athletes who set ...

10 years ago
A man that was reported missing from Salina has been found safe. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 51-year-old Jerry Huston was reported missing this week. He had last been heard from on Monday around 12:30. Huston is a truck driver, and called in to say he was running a personal errand in McPherson. When the ...

10 years ago
A state agency has fined Kansas Gas Service $7,000 over problems with locating underground gas lines. The Kansas Corporation Commission originally approved $14,000 in penalties related to incidents in the Kansas City area, but cut the amount in half after KGS sought reconsideration. Gas utilities must provide accurate information about where lines are within two days because ...

10 years ago
A Chapman man was hurt in a single vehicle crash along Interstate 70 east of Salina late Thursday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 27-year-old Nickolaus Anderson of Chapman was driving a 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe, headed west towards Salina on the interstate. Several witnesses observed the vehicle swerve into the median, and then veer ...

10 years ago
Telling a young boy that he can not touch or play with toys and books in a doctor’s office or other locations in public is hard for a parent to do. Especially when that is exactly why those items are there… to be played with and used. That is what Cooper Holloway of Abilene has ...