12 years ago
A state employees union says attacks are increasing on guards at the Lansing Correctional Facility. The Kansas Organization of State Employees says it has received reports that 10 guards were injured in five separate attacks between June 5 -9. The union blames the increased violence on a lack of staff at the prison. Jeremy ...

12 years ago
Same-sex couples who marry in other states won't find many places in Kansas to divorce if the relationship fails. Douglas County is currently the only county in Kansas that has issued divorces for same-sex couples. Gay rights advocates say many same-sex couples in Kansas get married in Iowa, where the marriages are legal. Iowa requires ...

12 years ago
Hutchinson is going to stake its claim to being the home of Superman this week. The city will kick off its Smallville Festival this Thursday and officially change its name to Smallville Saturday and Sunday. The celebration grew from the June 21, 2013, induction of Superman into the Kansas Hall of Fame. The promotion is based on ...

12 years ago
The work of some northeast Kansas high school students has gotten the attention of a developer and at least one family that wants to buy houses built by their school's construction tech class. Chapman High School teacher Josh Schlesener says it's a compliment that homes built by his students are in high demand, and it would ...

12 years ago
An eastern Kansas man is dead after crashing his car into a power pole while fleeing from Emporia police. 20-year-old Javier Escobedo of Emporia tried to elude officers who attempted to pull him over around 2:30 a.m. Sunday for failing to stop at a stop sign. Police say Escobedo wasn't wearing a seat belt when his 1999 ...

12 years ago
Stable farm income and a relatively small number of farms on the market left farmland prices in Kansas largely unchanged, contrary to concerns that an agriculture bubble could be deflated. Land auctioneer Farmers National Company says irrigated farm land sold at auction this month cost about the same as comparable land a year ago. With rainfall easing ...

12 years ago
The 2014 Smoky Hill River Festival is history. Organizers tell KSAL News that on Sunday 7,008 people crossed the bridges into the park to enjoy the final day of the festival. The total attendace for the weekend was 62,860, which is 552 more than last year. Mother nature was a big factor in the large attendance this ...

12 years ago
Casey Kasem, the smooth-voiced radio broadcaster who became the king of the top 40 countdown, has died at age 82. Danny Deraney, publicist for Kasem's daughter, Kerri, says Kasem died Sunday morning. Kasem's "American Top 40" began on July 4, 1970, in Los Angeles. The No. 1 song on his list then was "Mama Told Me Not ...

12 years ago
Strong opposition to the Common Core education standards around the country is coming from home-schooling parents. They're not required to teach their children using those standards. But many parents are concerned that their use will mean pressure to teach their kids a certain way. The standards have been adopted in more than 40 states and were pushed ...

12 years ago
Even with tea party challenger Milton Wolf's feisty rhetoric and daily attacks, many Kansas Republicans saw U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts coasting to a comfortable victory in the state's Aug. 5 Republican primary. But that assessment was less certain after U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning loss last week to an underfinanced and largely unknown primary ...

12 years ago
It was a breeze, in more ways than one, on Saturday at the Smoky Hill River Festival. The trend of large crowds continued Saturday at the Smoky Hill River Festival. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, 22,519 people on Saturday passed through the gates and into Oakdale Park. Though heat was not a factor, the wind was. ...