11 years ago
A religious liberty group is now threatening to sue over the ongoing Native American sweat lodge dispute at the VA hospital in Wichita. The Liberty Institute sent another letter Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs alleging discrimination against Native American religious practices of veterans at the Robert J. Dole Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The sweat ...

11 years ago
Records show that the campaign finance team for Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election has been working to pay off legal fees and debt from the 2014 election. Brownback and his campaign-finance team have been reaching out to potential donors since he was re-elected last November when he defeated Democratic nominee Paul Davis. Brownback campaign's most recent finance report ...

11 years ago
A Salina man might be the first victim of identity theft stemming from personal information that was stolen from a drive up bank cash machine. Police say that a 70-year-old man's Sunflower Bank card account information was used to make withdrawals on Monday in Lewisville, Texas and in Pearl, Mississippi. A total of $609.94 was withdrawn ...

11 years ago
A Salina man moving to another state falls victim to an internet scam. According to Salina Police, the 25-year-old was preparing to move to Texas. Using Craig's List online, he found an apartment for rent in Galveston. After communicating via e-mail with a person who claimed to be the owner, the Salina man wired $460 as ...

11 years ago
A man nearly drowned in a backyard pool in rural Saline County Monday evening. According to Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, 39-year-old Matthew Upshaw and his 18-year-old son Zachary were cleaning their pool in their backyard at 873 E. Frisbie Way at around 6:00 in the evening. The Sheriff says that Matthew went inside the house. When ...

11 years ago
Taiwan is pledging $1 million to help build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington as the memorial project begins a fundraising campaign to complete the monument. The gift being announced Tuesday marks a critical phase for the Eisenhower Memorial. Organizers must determine whether they can raise the money needed to build the monument. ...

11 years ago
A tornado touched down during a severe thunderstorm that moved through south-central Kansas Monday evening. Reno County emergency specialist Evan Seiwert says the tornado was reported three miles southeast of Nickerson on Monday evening. He said there were reports of a cabin and a farm house being destroyed. Todd Strain with Reno County Emergency Management says power ...

11 years ago
A federal investigation into the University of Kansas for its handling of a sexual assault complaint is still unresolved amid a national backlog of cases. The U.S. Education Department released a list in May 2014 that showed colleges that were under investigation. At that time, there were 55 open investigations nationwide. The number has since increased ...

11 years ago
A federal judge says a Kansas agency must release the results of its internal investigation into the death of a 4-year-old northeast Kansas boy. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth Gale rejected an argument from the Department for Children and Families that its investigative report and other documents should be kept secret. The ruling ...

11 years ago
A measure that would allow some Kansas school districts to hire unlicensed people to fill teaching positions is set to go before the state education board this week. Supporters of the measure say that it would help address teacher shortages, but opponents say that opening classrooms to unlicensed teachers would be bad for students and a ...

11 years ago
An email from a Kansas Department of Revenue official says the department hasn't started accepting joint tax returns from same-sex couples, despite earlier comments from the attorney general's office. The Wichita Eagle reports Monday that Richard Cram, policy director for the Revenue Department, said in an email the department's waiting for instructions from Gov. Sam Brownback's ...