11 years ago
Veterinarians at a southwest Kansas zoo have euthanized a 23-year-old red panda who suffered from arthritis. The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City says the red panda named Firecracker was put down this week because of health complications of old age. Zookeepers say the animal lived for 23 years and 4 months. Firecracker was transferred to Garden ...

11 years ago
The reward for information leading to the arrest in the beating, rape and burning of a Wichita woman has doubled. Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward in the case of a 36-year-old woman who was assaulted in Fairmount Park Friday near the Wichita State University campus. She was burned on over 55 percent of her ...

11 years ago
Police in southwest Kansas are investigating the death of a man after customers found his body outside of a convenience store. Garden City police say that customers alerted Presto employees to the body on Wednesday. The employee tells officers the man had purchased cigarettes at the store on Tuesday evening. She says the man walked behind ...

11 years ago
The U.S. attorney's office says it has collected more than $11.4 million this year from criminal and civil actions in Kansas. That includes $5 million collected in criminal cases and $6.4 million collected in civil actions. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a news release Wednesday that his office works hard to be good stewards of taxpayers' ...

11 years ago
Gay couples in Kansas can get married, but the state isn't yet allowing them to change their last names on their driver's licenses. The state"s government agencies under Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's direction aren't yet changing their policies on recognizing marriages. They include the Department of Revenue, which issues driver's licenses. Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said Wednesday ...

11 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says his vigorous defense of the state's gay marriage ban is designed to get a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether such bans are constitutional. Schmidt said in an Associated Press interview Wednesday that everyone is best served by a definitive ruling from the high court. The attorney general said that ...

11 years ago
Kansas U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts are predicting that the Senate will move quickly to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline once fellow Republicans take control in January. Moran and Roberts voted Tuesday evening for a measure approving the pipeline. However, it failed in the Democratic-controlled Senate on a 59-41 vote. The measure needed ...

11 years ago
A combine-sharing program touted as the first of its kind in the country aims to give farmers a chance to make some money off expensive equipment that sits idle after harvest is finished. FarmLink announced Wednesday its farmer-to-farmer program, which allows farmers with spring or early summer harvests in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas to rent ...

11 years ago
Salina Police will be out in force over the Thanksgiving holiday week looking for impaired drivers. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that extra officers will be working around the city from Tuesday evening through Sunday morning. Funding from the Special Traffic Enforcement Program will place three extra officers on patrol city wide on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a house cat is shot by a pellet gun. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Jamie Vigil went to visit a friend Friday in the 1100 block of North 11th and took her male cat with her. She told officers she let the cat out for a bathroom break and a short time ...

11 years ago
State and McPherson County authorities are investigating the suspicious death of a man whose body was found in a ditch near Galva. The man was identified Tuesday as 39-year-old James E. Croft, who was originally from Portland, Oregon. The sheriff's office said in a news release that it has developed three people of interest in the case ...