12 years ago
The University of Kansas will create a task force and require training in response to criticism of its handling of sexual assault complaints. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced Thursday that the task force will review the university's current policies and practices and recommend improvements. In a message on her website, Gray-Little said she wants to ensure that students, ...

12 years ago
A Saline County Sheriff's Deputy is injured after a Salina Firefighter's truck is stolen and wrecked in a fiery crash. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, a 1999 Dodge 1500 pickup was stolen sometime between 4pm Thursday and 3am Friday morning from a parking lot at Salina Fire Station 1, 222 W. Elm. Ottawa County authorities tell ...

12 years ago
Ideas for sustaining the Ogallala Aquifer will be discussed this weekend at the Kansas State Fair. A Kansas State University group called the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy is organizing round-table discussions Sunday afternoon at the fairgrounds. The Ogallala is an underground source of water locked inside gravel and sand hundreds of feet below the surface. ...

12 years ago
Newton police warn that a rise in the amount of city graffiti could lead to gang fights over turf. Sgt. Bryan Hall said on Thursday that there have been 57 cases of new graffiti found in the past six months. He says gangs often use the tags to mark their territory. Hall says the increase has caused ...

12 years ago
Wichita police say they plan to arrest some of the people who beat up a coach at a junior football league practice. Lt. James Espinoza said on Thursday that charges are pending and arrests will be made "in the near future." He says several people involved in the Monday fight have been banned from the league. Police ...

12 years ago
Unseasonably cold air that has brought early snow to some parts of the country has settled into Kansas. The cold air mass contributed to record breaking temperatures in some parts of the state on Thursday, with more possible Friday and Saturday. According to the National Weather Service, record cool high temperatures were set Thursday in Salina, Russell, ...

12 years ago
A southern Kansas woman has been placed on a year of supervised probation for a texting-while-driving crash that left another driver dead. The Pratt Tribune reports that 36-year-old Jennifer Dale, of Preston, must also pay a $1,000 fine under the sentence she received Wednesday. Dale pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of vehicular homicide in the ...

12 years ago
The latest government forecast on Kansas crop production is painting a far rosier picture than had been anticipated for most fall crops just a month ago. The National Agricultural Statistics Service predicted Thursday that Kansas growers would bring in 578 million bushels of corn this season. That figure is 14 percent above last year's production. Higher yields ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court will hold a hearing next week on a petition by the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate to get his name removed from the November ballot. The court on Thursday scheduled arguments on Democrat Chad Taylor's petition for 9 a.m. Tuesday. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said in a two-page order that the court was ...

12 years ago
A Salina public art sculpture wins a major award. According to Salina Arts & Humanities, "Dawn's Silver Lining" has received the 2014 Juror's Choice CODAaward for the Public Spaces category. "Dawn's Silver Lining" is the large-scale public art work on South Ninth Street designed by artist Barbara Grygutis. It was installed in the Fall of 2012. The ...

12 years ago
The attorney representing a convicted child molester has urged the Kansas Supreme Court to take a fresh look at the state's criminal offender registry because social media has made the Internet the new town square for public shaming. Attorney Chris Joseph said during oral arguments Thursday that the world has changed dramatically since 2003, when ...