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, ...

11 years ago
A half dozen people on the March list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line back on March 7th. Since then, six have been arrested. The Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that Aris Angel, Heahter Davis, Carla Gonzales, Timothy Hurt, Oscar Jones, and Evan Stark-Ennis all have ...

11 years ago
The U.S. appears to be locked in a tornado drought as meteorologists have recorded only about two-dozen twisters so far this year during a period when 100 or more are typical. And there have been no reports of tornadoes so far in March, a sometimes violent period for severe weather. The last time there were no ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a known suspect after a reported rape. Captain Chris Trocheck tells KSAL News that police are searching for a white, male in his 20's who allegedly raped a woman in a north Salina home on Thursday evening. Police say the two are acquaintances. The woman who is in her 20's reported the assault ...

11 years ago
A month's long drug investigation leads to five arrests at a Salina motel. According to Drug Task Force Commander Lt. Bill Cox, police used search warrants in two different rooms at the Airliner Motel, 781 N. Broadway on Thursday night. Police say information about drug activity at the motel sparked the investigation, while confidential informants who bought ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are advancing a proposal aimed at protecting religious groups on public college campuses that want to restrict their memberships to people who share their beliefs. The Senate approved the measure Thursday on a 30-8 vote. It goes next to the House. The bill says that state universities, community colleges and technical colleges can't refuse to ...