11 years ago
Weather officials in Kansas are worried that the state's lack of tornados last year will make citizens complacent going into tornado season this spring. The Wichita Eagle reports that officials are urging residents to not have a false sense of security since the state saw only 40 tornados last year. Kansas has averaged 100 tornados a ...

11 years ago
A 15-year-old central Kansas boy ordered to stand trial as an adult in the fire-related deaths of his mother and sister has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. KWCH-TV of Hutchinson reports that Buhler High School student Sam Vonachen was arraigned Monday in Reno County on two counts of premeditated first-degree murder. Vonachen also is charged with ...

11 years ago
The University of Kansas has spent $3.5 million of taxpayer money flying coaches and university administrators on 641 trips on private jets. The university's planes were bought by donors but taxpayers pay the costs of their operation. About two-thirds of those expenses were for flights by Kansas coaches and athletic administrators, and basketball coach Bill Self ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of a wood deck, metal trailer from Construction Rental, 515 N. Broadway. Staff recently contacted police to report a trailer that was rented back in December on a month-long contract that has not been returned. The trailer is valued at $5,475. An Apple laptop computer is reported stolen. Police say ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office in a joint effort with the Salina Police Department is getting set to host the Advanced Citizen's Academy training class this spring. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tell KSAL News that officials will be reviewing applications for the 8 week course that begins on the last day of March. Graduation from a previous Citizen's ...

11 years ago
Though there is snow on the ground, severe weather comes to the forefront this week across Kansas. This week, March 2nd - 6th, is severe weather awareness week. It is a week where citizens are urged to become educated about severe weather, and about what to do when it threatens. In 2014 Kansas saw only 40 ...

11 years ago
Police in Kansas say a woman has died after falling through ice on a pond while trying to retrieve her dog. Sergeant John Ryan with the Wichita Police Department said Sunday afternoon that divers recovered the woman's body from the pond in park on the city's northeast side. Ryan told the Wichita Eagle that the woman had ...

11 years ago
Police say a tractor-trailer crashed into the rear of a Greyhound bus in snowy weather on Interstate 44 in Missouri, setting off a chain of accidents involving dozens of vehicles. At least 11 people were sent to a hospital with minor to moderate injuries. Sgt. Cody Fulkerson, a spokesman for the Missouri State Police, says no ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators have reached the midpoint of their annual session having advanced gun-rights and teacher collective bargaining proposals but having left measures to legalize medical marijuana, expand the Medicaid program and restrict fracking to languish. Most bills had to be passed out of their chamber of origin be automatically discarded after Friday's "turnaround" deadline. House Speaker Ray ...

11 years ago
Top Republican officials in Kansas are working on a plan to overhaul funding for public schools designed to prevent unanticipated demands for new spending. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is calling on the GOP-dominated Legislature to junk the state's current formula for distributing $3.6 billion in aid to school districts. He's proposed distributing most of the money ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University has been selected as a host site for "First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare," a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world's most treasured books. The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association, is touring a First ...