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Attorneys are telling Kansas regulators an agreement that would allow the state's largest electric company to increase its rates about 4 percent is reasonable for customers. The rate-setting Kansas Corporation Commission had a 90-minute hearing Monday on the proposed deal. It was struck by Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc., the commission's staff, a state consumer advocacy agency ...

10 years ago
The Hutchinson Correctional Facility has ended a program that allowed inmates to train service dogs. Prison spokesman Dirk Moss says staffing shortages prompted the decision to stop the program as of Aug. 1. The prison had one full-time officer overseeing the program and Moss said that person had to be ...

10 years ago
Security video from the YMCA links a Salina man to a crime. Catptain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 20-year-old Malachi W. Lageman was arrested on Sunday after a traffic stop. Police tied Lageman, who was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court, to images recorded of a vehicle burglary in the ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after allegedly swinging a chain at a woman. Officers were called to 100 block of S. 10th on Friday night just before 10:30pm - to the report of a man threatening a woman with a chain. Police arrested 32 -year-old Jerry J.Huckabey on assault charges. Officers reported that Huckabey swung ...

10 years ago
Jury selection is expected to take up to a week in the capital murder trial of a Missouri man who claims he was morally obligated to kill three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites. Frazier Glenn Miller Junior has publicly admitted firing the shots that killed 69-year-old William ...

10 years ago
Kansas regulators are reviewing an agreement that would allow the state's largest electric company to increase its rates by $78 million a year. The Kansas Corporation Commission was opening hearings Monday on the deal between Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc., a state consumer advocacy board and other parties. ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Department of Revenue has banned employees from making audio, video or photographic recordings while at work. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1HPGtnX) reports that violations could lead to firings. Agency spokeswoman Jeannine Koranda says the policy is formalizing what has already been the practice at the agency. Koranda declined to say whether a specific incident or incidents ...

10 years ago
Researchers from Kansas, Michigan and Nebraska hope to begin testing in the next year on a potential diesel replacement. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1HPGAjE) reports that their work is focused on modifying a plant called Camelina sativa to lower its viscosity - essentially, its resistance to flowing. Plant oils typically have a high enough viscosity that they ...

10 years ago
Federal meteorologists say the current El Nino is already the second strongest on record for this time of year and could be one of the most potent weather changers of the past 65 years. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration recorded unusual warmth in the Pacific Ocean in the last three months. El Nino is a heating ...

10 years ago
More than three dozen Kansas school districts are expected to ask top state officials for additional money due to budget concerns. Their requests have renewed a debate over the new school funding law that jettisoned the old per-pupil formula for distributing more than $3.4 billion in annual aid. The state already has received applications for extra aid ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Wesleyan University campus is coming back to life this weekend. While some students, including athletes moved back last week, the rest of the student body is moving in this weekend. There were plenty of smiles mixed with a few hugs and tears Saturday as students began to move into the dorms on campus. Family, friends, ...