11 years ago
Police are investigating after multiple windows were shot at four stores at the Salina Central Mall. Police say several car windows were also hit by BB fire sometime between Friday and Sunday near the Mall. Captain Chris Trocheck tells KSAL News that JC Penny, Dillards, Jo-Ann Fabrics and Sears all had window or door glass damaged ...

11 years ago
Westar Energy will be sending rebates to customers after collecting $38 million too much last year. The rebates, which will average about $1.26 a month, come from Westar's Retail Energy Cost Adjustment rider, which pays for fuel for Westar's generating plants. The rebates were detailed in filings with the Kansas Corporation Commission. A fuel ...

11 years ago
Firefighters from several departments in Nebraska and Kansas have battled a fire at a hog operation in southern Nebraska. The fire was first reported around 7 p.m. Sunday at the Livingston Enterprises operation, which sits about four miles southeast of Reynolds. No injuries were reported workers or firefighters. Fire officials say six buildings were damaged and ...

11 years ago
Though a widespread outbreak isn't anticipated, the first severe weather of the spring is possible Monday night into early Tuesday. According to the National Weather Service, scattered strong to marginally severe thunderstorms are possible Monday night across a large portion of the area. The main threat will be hail up to quarter size. A few severe ...

11 years ago
Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature are boxing themselves into considering tax increases by drafting proposed budgets in both chambers that don't balance without them. GOP legislators have repeatedly said that the budget shortfall projected at nearly $600 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1 represents a spending problem, not a revenue problem. But top Republican ...

11 years ago
Shawnee County prosecutors have charged a Topeka city councilman with failing to disclose that he is an officer of a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that court records show that Chad Manspeaker was charged with the misdemeanor criminal charge Tuesday. Manspeaker said in a written statement that he would "rather not comment at this ...

11 years ago
Kansas reports that its unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent in February and that employment by private companies grew over the previous year. The state Department of Labor's report Friday means that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was the same for three consecutive months. It compares to a rate of 4.6 percent for February 2014. The department ...

11 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has called out his New Mexico counterpart over his basketball predictions. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas predicted that the New Mexico State University men's basketball team would upset the University of Kansas on Friday and then Wichita State University in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Schmidt, in a statement Wednesday, called the ...

11 years ago
Kansas renewable energy groups say that proposed tax increases would threaten the young industry's existence. Two bills before the Kansas Legislature would remove tax incentives for renewable energy investments by shortening a lifetime property tax exemption for wind and solar farms and imposing a 4.33 percent excise tax on ethanol fuel and renewable electricity. Ethanol producers say ...

11 years ago
Salina area legislators were back home Saturday morning. Senator Tom Arpke,  and representatives J.R. Claeys, Diana Dierks, and Steven Johnson all participated in a question and answer  session with the public. Questions ranged from guns, the death penalty, and most notably education. The four legislators were divided on their support of the block grant education overhaul ...

11 years ago
The public is invited to a brown bag lunch presentation on March 25 at noon in the Visitors Center Auditorium of the Eisenhower Presidential Library. John McManus will discuss D-Day with the Big Red One. McManus will focus on several key individuals who were instrumental in the division's victory at Omaha beach. McManus is an award-winning professor, ...