11 years ago
Small-town discount retailer ALCO Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, but says it plans to stay in business while it reorganizes. The company filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, and said it had $222 million in assets and $162 million in liabilities in July. ALCO ...

11 years ago
A vehicle that was stolen from a Salina home is found abandoned at the Brookville Cemetery. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office got a call on Saturday about a vehicle that looked out of place - parked in a tree line at the cemetery located on South Brownhill Road. The 2004 Ford Taurus was stolen sometime ...

11 years ago
Gunshots are fired in a Salina neighborhood Sunday evening. Police officers responded to the report of shots fired in the 1100 block of Johnstown at about 7:40pm. Police say 4 shell casings ejected from a high powered automatic handgun were found on the pavement in front of a house at 1109 Johnstown. Witnesses told officers they saw a ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University says it will not renew the contract of a professor who conducted controversial research on grassland burning. Research associate Gene Towne says he believes his 26-year career will end Oct. 31 because he suggested in a published article that ranchers could burn grassland at times other than April. For years, the university ...

11 years ago
PALOS HILLS, Ill. (AP) — Three people have died aboard a small plane that crashed on the only vacant lot in a dense Chicago suburb of single-family homes, authorities said Monday. The twin-engine Beechcraft Baron crashed in the Chicago suburb of Palos Hills around 10:40 p.m. Sunday, shortly after takeoff from Chicago Midway Airport for Lawrence, ...

11 years ago
A Dallas health worker's Ebola infection is raising fresh questions about whether hospitals truly can safely take care of people with the deadly virus. The new case shows a breach in infection control and reveals that even in the United States, with the best conditions and protective gear available, mistakes can happen that expose more people ...

11 years ago
Wichita police are searching for a man who two others say stabbed them in a bar after a fight over a spilled drink. Sgt. John Ryan says the men drove themselves to the hospital on Sunday morning. He says the 26- and 32-year-old victims were stabbed at the Revolution Lounge. It's unclear how badly they were ...

11 years ago
Pittsburg police are offering a reward for help locating two more suspects in the killing of a Pittsburg State University student. KOAM-TV reports that $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the two 19-year-old suspects from Pittsburg. Two other men, ages 21 and 24, were arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder ...

11 years ago
Hutchinson police have arrested a man following a standoff who they say eluded officers in a high-speed chase last week. Police say 26-year-old Scott Lutz was caught hiding in an attic on Sunday. Authorities say he initially refused to come out and firefighters cut a hole in the roof. They say he eventually started a small ...

11 years ago
Nearly 200 students of a Kansas-based college have joined a lawsuit that accuses the school of fraud. The Kansas City Star reports the lawsuit against Wright Career College was filed last year but amended recently to add 195 more students. The current and former students attended Wright's campuses in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The lawsuit states the ...

11 years ago
The flagship organization of the political network backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch (kohk) is ditching campaign ads and building an army of conservative activists to shape the final days of the midterm elections. Americans for Prosperity has sent more than 500 workers into 35 states in the past few years to shape how voters ...