11 years ago
Cattlemen from across Kansas will be converging in Wichita next week for the annual convention of the Kansas Livestock Association amid all-time high cattle prices. The three-day event that begins Wednesday touches on nutrition, cattle markets and retail sales. Thursday will feature a presentation from CattleFax Executive Vice President Randy Blach talking about the cattle market outlook. He ...

11 years ago
Several colleges in Kansas and Missouri are starting food pantries to help students survive the ever-increasing costs of higher education. In Kansas, Emporia State University and Washburn University opened pantries this month, while Pittsburg State opened one in October. The Kansas City Star reports that the University of Missouri-Kansas City student activities office is working on ...

11 years ago
A Kansas shelter is offering Black Friday deals on hard-to-adopt black pets. The Wichita Eagle reports that black animals often are overlooked at shelters in part because of superstition. The Kansas Humane Society is offering black or mostly black pets for free from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. The shelter has been having a Black ...

11 years ago
More than 1,000 farmers are expected to gather in Manhattan next week to layout the roadmap for public policy issues the Kansas Farm Bureau members consider of importance to agriculture. Among the featured speakers for the two-day event that begins Monday is American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman. Workshop topics include succession planning, advocating for agriculture, ...

11 years ago
Demonstrators have disrupted business at a large suburban St. Louis shopping mall to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson. At least 200 protesters gathered on one of the busiest shopping days of the year Friday at the Galleria mall in Richmond Heights, about ...

11 years ago
Between 2:00 PM on November 7, 2014 and 12:00 PM on November 9, 2014 a residential burglary was committed at 2810 S. Ohio. Unknown person or persons entered the residence by unknown means and took $50 and two Vizio flat screen TVs. Loss is estimated at over $1,200. If you have any information concerning who committed ...

11 years ago
A fire early Friday morning badly damaged an east Salina home. Firefighters were called to the report of a house on fire at 1904 Valley View Drive at around 7:00 in the morning. The east side of the home was fully engulfed when the first crews arrived Crews spent several hours trying to get the fire totally ...

11 years ago
Early-bird shoppers headed to stores on Thanksgiving in what's becoming a new holiday tradition. In Salina the Wal-Mart store was full roughly an hour before Thanksgiving deals started at 6 p.m., including $199 iPad minis. Across the street at Target, a line of shoppers waiting to get in to purchase special items including a 40 inch ...

11 years ago
There was not a wide selection on the menu at Applebee's in Salina Thursday, but there were no complaints. The only thing on the menu was turkey, and all the trimmings, at the Salina Salvation Army Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Debbie Andrews of Salina has coordinated the event for the last fifteen years. She tells KSAL News ...

11 years ago
Topeka police are looking for a man accused of stabbing an auto dealership employee and fleeing in the car he was test driving. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 65-year-old Kenneth Gorman was attacked Wednesday night in a bank parking lot in Topeka. Police say the suspect then fled in the 2014 Chevy Malibu he was test-driving. ...

11 years ago
Kansas says its tax collections in November were $3.1 million more than estimated in November. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that revenue collections totaled more than $409 million this month, while about $406 million was estimated. Corporate income tax receipts came in $1 million above estimates, while individual income tax receipts were $3.8 million above estimates. But sales tax ...