12 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a woman. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a 20-year-old woman walked into the police station early Thursday morning to tell officers how she was attacked by a woman and man she lives with in the 100 block of N. Wisconsin. Police say ...

12 years ago
A project that first began as an idea five years ago will soon become a reality. Calling it a great example of cooperation between government, industry, and university, officials broke ground for the $3.5 million Kansas State University Bulk Solids Innovation Center Thursday morning in Salina. The research facility will be the only one of its ...

12 years ago
The Kansas wheat harvest may be one of the worst on record — and the loss doesn't just hurt Kansas, according to a Kansas State University expert. "The rains came too late to benefit the wheat production, so we may have our lowest wheat harvest on record," said Mary Knapp, service climatologist in the university's ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas Hospital will lead a team working to reduce deaths from heart attacks and strokes in western Kansas. The hospital announced Wednesday that it had received a $12.5 million, three-year federal grant to lead the effort. The hospital will work with Hays Medical Center and 10 critical access hospitals and primary care ...

12 years ago
The Junction City Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a wanted fugitive. Seventeen-year-old Marco Eugen Foreman, described as a black male standing 5’8″, weighing 140 lbs with black hair and brown eyes. Foreman walked away from a Juvenile Placement Facility in Junction City on May 23rd, 2014, and has still not been taken ...

12 years ago
Sedgwick County authorities are searching for an inmate who was accidentally released from jail. The sheriff says 33-year-old Chad Alan Engel was booked into the jail July 2 on traffic charges and a warrant from McPherson County for a drug-related conviction. The sheriff's office says in a news release that Engel was released on traffic charges on ...

12 years ago
The president of Washburn University says the school is "very safe" and sexual assault is rare on the Topeka campus. President Jerry Farley says a federal investigation into the school's handling of sexual violence stems from an alleged sexual assault involving two students. He says such cases are rare at Washburn. The U.S. Department of Education's Office ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas county will pay for copies of birth certificates for some voters needing to document their U.S. citizenship to register if they cannot afford to obtain the records. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew announced the policy Wednesday. Shew said he's addressing what he called an unfairness created by a state law requiring new voters ...

12 years ago
Women's rights activists in Kansas are praising a romantic comedy about abortion. Julie Burkhart, founder of Trust Women and the South Wind Women's Center, says the groups asked that the movie "Obvious Child" be shown in Wichita so the community could it. She says it is time Hollywood portrayed abortion in a more authentic way since ...

12 years ago
The Office of Inspector General for the Veterans Affairs Department has released its recommendations for improvements at the six community-based outpatient clinics across Kansas overseen by the Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita. The recommendations are based in part on a site visit to the Parsons clinic in May along with other data gathered for VA ...

12 years ago
A man convicted of murdering a Salina teenage girl back in 1984 has died while still incarcerated. According to Kansas Department of Corrections records, 72-year-old Lonnie McKibben died on Saturday. McKibben was incarcerated at the Lansing Correctional Facility. McKibben was convicted of 2nd degree murder back in 1985 in connection with the death of 15-year-old ...