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Three Salina organizations are receiving funding from the Kansas Attorney General's Office. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today announced that the three organizations have been awarded grants totaling $144,190 for victims’ service programs. The grants awarded will fund the following projects: • Ashby House: $21,500 to provide court ordered supervised visitations and exchanges in Saline, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson ...

11 years ago
A former Salina city building official is facing trial in California, accused of poisoning his wife to death 20-years ago. Paul Curry was hired in March of 2010 to be the City of Salina building official. It came as a shock when he was arrested less than a year later in Salina, in November 2010, ...

11 years ago
State health official say whooping cough cases are increasing across Kansas, with Pottawatomie County particularly hard hit. The state has recorded 405 confirmed cases of the disease so far this year, compared with 172 in all of 2013. In Pottawatomie County 17 confirmed cases have been reported. Last year, the northeast Kansas county had one ...

11 years ago
The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable, retching and vomiting, when his owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital. It was something he ate! X-rays showed a stomach full of "a large quantity of foreign material." Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer — the dog had consumed 43 ...

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An investigator on an elite task force that captured the man known as the Unabomber will be the keynote speaker at the Wichita Crime Commission's annual awards banquet. Retired FBI agent Candace Delong was a psychiatric nurse prior to joining the agency and its behavior sciences unit. In 1995 she was one of three agents picked ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University officials say personal information from applicants for its graduate program in agronomy might have been exposed on the Internet. The university said Wednesday that it notified 19 people who applied for the program between 2010 and 2013 about the possible problem, which did not involve outside hackers. Information from 56 other applicants was ...

11 years ago
The Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Kansas had ended his campaign. Democrat Chad Taylor had been running against three-term Republican incumbent Pat Roberts. Taylor sent a letter Wednesday to the Kansas secretary of state, withdrawing from the race. The race also has a viable independent candidate, Olathe businessman Greg Orman. Taylor issued a separate statement ...

11 years ago
Democratic challenger Paul Davis is disputing statements from Republican Gov. Sam Brownback that Davis has shown little interest in water conservation in Kansas. The Davis campaign responded Wednesday to a statement from Brownback that Davis has no credibility on water issues. Brownback promised during a news conference to finish work on a 50-year water conservation plan if ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says he's open to proposals for phasing out a renewable energy requirement for Kansas utilities because policies aimed at nurturing the wind industry shouldn't remain in place forever. The Republican governor said Wednesday that he's not developing a proposal of his own and wants wind energy companies, critics of the requirement and other ...

11 years ago
Independent U.S. Senate candidate Greg Orman has been endorsed by a group of former moderate Republicans in the Kansas Legislature who are unhappy with the state GOP's conservative leanings. Orman held a Statehouse news conference Wednesday to tout his endorsement by Traditional Republicans for Common Sense. Former state Rep. Jim Yonally, of Overland Park, says the ...

11 years ago
Game wardens with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism were busy over the Labor Day weekend. Kansas game wardens enforce wildlife laws and regulations, patrol the waters of Kansas, investigate boating accidents, and conduct boat safety inspections, BUI checks, safety programs, education classes and other activities. September 1 started the dove season in Kansas, ...