12 years ago
Budget committees in the Kansas House and Senate are working on competing proposals to increase aid to poor school districts to satisfy a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling. The House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees met into Tuesday evening. Both were considering proposals to boost aid to poor districts by $129 million during the ...

12 years ago
Several citizens spoke out against the new executive director of the Saline County Health Department Tuesday morning, including one former employee accusing him of sexual harassment. Melissa Lill of Brookville spoke out during the public forum session of the Saline County Commission televised meeting against the hiring of Bronson Farmer as the health department's new executive ...

12 years ago
A burn ban continues in Saline County. According to the Saline County Emergency Management Office warm, dry and windy weather conditions continue to create an extreme fire hazard in the grass and crop lands of Saline County. Once started, these fires are difficult to control and strain firefighting manpower and resources. The County Commissioners have ordered ...

12 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo welcomes two new arrivals. According to the zoo, two new scimitar-horned oryx have arrived. The addition of the two males marks the return of the species to Rolling Hills. Previously, Sahara and Sahel were part of the zoo family, but had both passed away. The two oryx, Ndamukong, who will be four years ...

12 years ago
The audience will be seeing things at Salina Community Theatre this weekend, as the play "Harvey" comes to life. Director Gary Demuth says the comedy turns seventy this year, "There's a reason it's a classic, and it's still charming, relevant and every time it's done there's new life," he said. The story is driven by the eccentric ...

12 years ago
With the help from numerous Salina and Kansas departments, the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force carried out six search warrants stemming from a long-term investigation into drug violations by a group of Salina citizens on Monday. Warrants were issued for Jerry Lee Robinson, Jr., 34, 1 Willow Court; Jacob Wayne Thompson, 25, 115 West Wilson; Zacari Dwayne ...

12 years ago
Numerous items were reported stolen yesterday to Salina Police after the owner of a farmstead garage finds her property forcefully entered. Sometime between December 25, 2013 and March 31, 2014 the property on E. Gray Rd. in Northeast Saline County owned by Fern Darnell, 66, of Salina was broken into. The suspect entered into the building ...

12 years ago
Kansas farmers are planning to put in more acres of corn and soybeans this season than they did a year ago. Monday's prospective planting report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service offers the season's first glimpse into the major crops Kansas farmers plan to grow. Kansas farmers told the agency they intend to sow 4.4 million acres ...

12 years ago
An Arizona State University student who fell to her death over the weekend is being remembered in Kansas as an outstanding student at Manhattan High School. The Manhattan Mercury reports police in Tempe, Ariz., are still investigating the death early Sunday of 18-year-old Naomi McClendon. Authorities there said McClendon fell from a 10th-floor balcony at a ...

12 years ago
A new report says better-than-expected collections of Kansas sales and corporate income taxes helped swell state revenue by $12.2 million more than anticipated in March. Monday's report from the state Revenue Department also says tax collections through the first eight months of the fiscal year totaled nearly $4 billion, about $130 million more than expected. Corporate taxes ...

12 years ago
Despite sore feet and windy weather, five parents and teachers have completed a 60-mile walk from Johnson County to the Statehouse to show support for Kansas public schools. The hikers are part of a group called Game On for Kansas Schools, which is supporting higher state spending for public education. They set out Friday from suburban ...