12 years ago
Nearly 60,000 Kansans will share more than $3.6 million in insurance reimbursements under a provision of the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in a statement Wednesday that the provision requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on patient care and quality improvement. If more ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a construction worker died after being hit by a trash truck in Reno County. The accident Tuesday on Kansas 61 killed 22-year-old Dylan Joseph Snyder of Kansas City, Missouri. Snyder was removing construction cones when he was hit. The patrol says before the truck hit Snyder, it rear-ended one vehicle and sideswiped ...

12 years ago
Federal prosecutors say an Augusta couple stole more than $1.5 million from a Wichita company that owns assisted living centers in Kansas and Missouri. The U.S. attorney's office in Wichita says 43-year-old Brent Shryock and his 50-year-old ex-wife, Lori Shryock, were indicted Wednesday with four counts of mail fraud. ...

12 years ago
The Great Plains Theatre in Abilene was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. As of 9 PM, the cause of the fire was unknown. Approximately 50 firefighters responded to the blaze including units from Abilene, Salina and Grant Township in Dickinson County.  As a pre-cautionary measure, residents were evacuated from an apartment building located just to the west ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is urging wind-energy advocates and critics of a renewable-energy requirement for Kansas utilities to work on a compromise for the policy's future. The governor made remarks Wednesday in an impromptu meeting with Statehouse reporters suggesting that he supported phasing out the renewable energy rule. But hours later, spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the governor was ...

12 years ago
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran says a veterans medical center in Wichita left its laboratories unstaffed for entire shifts and sometimes resorted to "begging, borrowing and manipulation" just to obtain vital surgical equipment. Moran made the allegations in a letter sent last week to Sloan Gibson, the acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair. The ...

12 years ago
A 24-year old female reported a theft of a UPS delivery. She received a UPS shipper notice around noon on July 22nd confirming that her iPad and iPhone were delivered to home in the 800 block of 5th St. By 4 pm, there was nothing at the house. She believes someone stole the package off ...

12 years ago
A proposal to build a technical education center in Pittsburg that would serve southeast Kansas has received a boost. The Pittsburg City Commission on Tuesday approved appropriating $300,000 in economic development loan funds for the center, which would offer education and training to high school, community college and adult students while also providing workforce training for ...

12 years ago
A woman calls police after her two specialty breed dogs come up missing. Jackson, a white Ihasa Apso, and Daisy, a black and white Japanese Chin disappeared from the fenced in backyard between the hours of 10 am and 2 pm on July 22nd. The 36-year old woman, who lives in the 300 block of N. 10th ...

12 years ago
Four wheeled beauties - with plenty of horses under the hood will be roaming the streets of Downtown Salina Thursday evening, as merchants hand out cotton candy and good deals. Penny Bettles with Salina Downtown Inc., joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look at the 2014 Sidewalk Sale, Block Party and Sunset Cruise. ...

12 years ago
Burglars enter a vehicle stranded on the side of the road. The owner of the vehicle, a 29-year old male of Salina, told Police he let a 38-year old female acquaintance borrow his car on July 20th to go to the laundromat. On the way back home the car ran out of gas and was left unattended. Tuesday ...