12 years ago
With a squeeze on recreation space getting tighter, Salina City Commissioners were told this week that a new Fieldhouse in downtown would ease the bottleneck. Mayor Aaron Householter joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look at a newly proposed multi-use recreation center for Salina. Householter told listeners on Thursday he believes taxpayers should spend ...

12 years ago
The Governor's Water Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas will highlight policy and research developments on water issues in the state. The Kansas Water Office announced Wednesday the conference will be held Nov. 12-13 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan. Among the conference topics are working with available resources, developing additional supply sources and ...

12 years ago
A panel of college leaders from Pakistan will speak at Johnson County Community College about the role of education in fighting terrorism in their country. The educators from the Sukkur Institute of Business Administration are scheduled to speak the evening of Sept. 18 at the Overland Park campus. The U.S. Embassy has provided the Kansas college ...

12 years ago
The attorney for a home day care owner who ran over a toddler with a lawn mower says the accident was not a crime. Last week's incident is not aggravated endangerment of a child. He says his 39-year-old client didn't act recklessly. Moses says she feels terrible about what happened to the 18-month-old child. The woman has ...

12 years ago
Kansas officials say about 20 percent of the state's 1.74 million registered voters took part in this month's primary elections. Secretary of State Kris Kobach chairs the three-member State Board of Canvassers, which certified the results of the Aug. 5 primaries on Wednesday. Nearly 351,000 ballots were cast. Kobach had predicted 22 percent turnout. The 20 percent ...

12 years ago
A court-appointed panel of petroleum engineering experts has sided with Omaha-based Northern Natural Gas over what it should pay for condemning nearly 9,200 acres in southern Kansas. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Wednesday gave the parties until Sept. 16 to file objections to the recommendations in the panel's 85-page report. The panel's findings stem from 19 ...

12 years ago
A Kansas board has approved the voter registration of a 92-year-old woman after she and her daughter presented copies of census records and a page from a battered family Bible to prove she was born in the U.S. Evelyn Howard of Shawnee went before the State Election Board on Wednesday because she had no birth certificate. ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a pilot and his passenger escaped injury when a small, twin-engine plane made a crash landing near an airport. The incident happened shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday at the El Dorado Airport in Butler County. Authorities say the pilot was doing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when the plane lost power in one ...

12 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback visited a school in Salina on Wednesday. The governor made a stop at Salina Central High School to meet with students in the Jobs for America's Graduates, or JAG program. The program is dedicated to preventing dropouts among young people who are most at-risk. A group of students and faculty gathered ...

12 years ago
The Salina USD 305 School District honored its teachers of the year Tuesday evening. According to the district, Tiffany Wooten, adaptive special education teacher at Stewart Elementary, and Kelly Heizman, South High School English teacher, have been selected as USD 305 Teachers of the Year. They were honored by the Salina Board of Education. As part ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after waving a knife at three people on a porch. Officers were called to 600 block of Viemont Street on Tuesday night around 10:15pm, after a verbal confrontation turned violent. Police say 20-year-old Phillip Humphry was walking past a house when he and three people outside the home exchanged words. The victims told ...