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The Kansas Highway Patrol began training the newest trooper recruit class in Salina earlier this month. According to the agency, KHP Class #55 reported to the Training Academy on Wednesday, July 8, where they will be for 23 weeks of training. This class marks an effort to have at least one recruit class per year, addresses ...

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The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in November on whether the school funding law has fixed unconstitutional disparities so it provides equal educational opportunities for all students. But it will not be until spring of 2016 when it will hear the part of the appeal on whether Kansas has met its constitutional duty to ...

11 years ago
A Hutchinson woman has received a Christmas card nearly a half-century after it was mailed from neighboring Nebraska. The Christmas card that Carol Hastings received had a 6-cent stamp and was postmarked Omaha, Nebraska, on December 20th, 1968. The Hutchinson News reports the card was delivered to Hastings on Thursday — nearly 47 years late. The card ...

11 years ago
Governor Sam Brownback has stumbled in trying to build a case that teachers in Kansas are paid significantly better on average than teachers in neighboring Missouri. Brownback told reporters during a Friday news conference that teachers in Kansas are paid an average of nearly $55,000 a year. The figure includes both salary and benefits. He said teachers ...

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Gov. Sam Brownback's chief spokeswoman says he expects to outline spending cuts next week to keep Kansas' current budget balanced. Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley confirmed his plans Friday as the Republican governor announced that he's expanded the duties of budget director Shawn Sullivan to help find efficiencies throughout state government. Sullivan's duties already included finding ways to ...

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The state of Kansas is suing the U.S. Army in federal court, alleging the Army is trying to prevent the state from continuing to provide cafeteria service at Fort Riley. The state has received the federal contract worth more than $1 million since 2006. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Kansas Department for Children and Families filed the ...

11 years ago
A medical condition may have led to a single vehicle crash and rescue on Thursday morning. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that 35-year-old Randall Witte from Lincoln, KS was injured after the pickup he was driving hit a guard rail and rolled into a ditch near the Muir Road overpass on I-70. Deputies say he was ...

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Kansas health officials say there is no cause for alarm after three incidents in which millions of gallons of sewage spilled into the Kansas River at Topeka. The latest incident was on Tuesday, when a sanitary sewer main leak caused 55,000 gallons of raw sewage to enter the river. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 3 million gallons of ...

11 years ago
Animal control officers were sent to a Salina motel room after an odor complaint was made on Thursday. Salina's Animal Service Supervisor Vanessa Cowie, tells KSAL News that, at least 10 animals were found in a room at the Traveler's Lodge at 245 S. Broadway, all suffering from dehydration and malnutrition. Cowie added some of the animals ...

11 years ago
A southwest Kansas post office is temporarily closed after a car crashed into the building. The Hutchinson News reports the crash happened on Thursday in Kismet, a town of fewer than 500 people 20 minutes northeast of Liberal. Seward County sheriff's deputies at the scene declined Thursday evening to release any information about the accident without first ...

11 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to have a Statehouse news conference to discuss abortion and education issues. Brownback's office said that during Friday afternoon's event he would address his call for a state medical board investigation into whether tissue from aborted fetuses is being sold commercially in violation of state and federal laws. The Republican governor ...