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The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking for two people who may have thrown baseballs at passing vehicles. Deputies say a white, male passenger in a dark colored car reached out of a moving vehicle - and struck the windshields of at least three vehicles who were driving in the opposite direction. Brandon McKenna of Gypsum had ...

11 years ago
The wildlife disease coordinator in Kansas says wild bird population numbers appear unaffected by an outbreak of avian influenza. Shane Hesting of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism said Wednesday that Kansas has sent one wild goose suspected of having the disease for further testing. The bird was found in Lyon County along the ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a fatal stabbing. Police responding to the report of a stabbing in the 1400 block of Arapahoe at 9:43 Tuesday night found 50-year-old Scott Johnson of 129 W. Cloud on the ground in a yard. He had suffered multiple stab wounds in the back and front area of his body. Officers immediately started ...

11 years ago
A much larger than anticipated crowd showed up at an event Tuesday evening to learn about a vision of a revitalized Salina Downtown. Organizers had anticipated about 20 or so people showing up. Instead, there were over 200 who gathered at the Salina Community Theatre to learn about what city manager Jason Gage said was ...

11 years ago
A Kansas Senate committee is considering a new education funding plan that would tie some state aid to public schools to how well students do after high school. The Senate Education Committee had a hearing Tuesday on a plan drafted by Chairman and Arkansas City Republican Steve Abrams. He said his goal is to focus public ...

11 years ago
A Lawrence man was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison for marketing synthetic marijuana and other designer drugs around the world. Bradley Miller was sentenced Monday after admitting he conspired with his brother, Clark Sloan, and his brother's son, Jonathan, to manufacture and sell the drugs. Federal prosecutors say the men's business started at ...

11 years ago
Police in the Kansas City suburb of Lenexa, Kansas, say a man has been arrested on suspicion of injuring three children, damaging vehicles and threatening people with what turned out to be a pellet gun. Police said in a statement that the man was arrested Monday after officers fielded reports of an armed suspect throwing ...

11 years ago
The Cherokee County sheriff says the death of a Texas woman whose body was found in a field is considered suspicious. Sheriff David Groves says the body of 35-year-old Shannon Fonda, of Midland, Texas, was found Monday near Scammom in southeast Kansas. Groves says an autopsy will determine her cause of death. He says investigators are not ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has proclaimed Wednesday as Military Appreciation Day in Kansas. Brownback said in a statement Monday that the goal of his proclamation is to better recognize the men and women of the U.S. armed forces. Brownback plans to meet with his military council Wednesday in Topeka after signing the proclamation. The governor is expected to ...

11 years ago
The Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature is considering proposals to restrict public employee unions and potentially shrink the state's civil service. GOP lawmakers who support the changes up for debate Tuesday argue that they'll give state agencies more flexibility and allow them to operate more like private companies. Critics see an attack on public employee unions that often support ...

11 years ago
Additional charges have been filed against a Topeka man accused of shooting at motorists on a highway. 51-year-old Cory Huff originally was charged with attempted intentional second-degree murder, discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle and reckless driving. Jackson County Attorney Shawna Miller has filed an amended complaint to add two more counts of attempted second-degree ...