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Careless smoking is blamed as a cause to a fire early Thursday morning in Salina. According to the Salina Fire Department, at 5:15 in the morning crews responded to a house fire at 507 N. 12th. In a news release Fire Inspector Troy Long said “the occupants inside the home were alerted to the fire by a ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that sometime between 11:20 in the morning and 12:27 in the afternoon, a home at 420 East Otis was broken into. Forced entry was made via a window. Items taken include an X-Box 360 video game system, a game controller, and three games. A lock ...

12 years ago
Kansas legislators are facing another push to phase in sales of strong beer, wine and liquor at grocery and convenience stores. The House commerce committee had a hearing Wednesday on a bill to allow liquor store owners to sell their licenses to other retailers in the same county, starting in July 2015. Kansas currently allows groceries and ...

12 years ago
A new atlas published by the Kansas Biological Survey provides information about the health of nearly 80 lakes and reservoirs around the state. The 240-page document compiles data and observations by the survey staff over more than a decade. It includes information about the condition of the lakes, how quickly they may be filling with sediment, ...

12 years ago
A federal judge has warned a Canadian man convicted of identity theft against filing any more legal actions against people who testified against him in the criminal case. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten stopped short Wednesday of issuing the formal injunction sought by prosecutors against 58-year-old Leslie Camick, but noted the denial was provisional for ...

12 years ago
A 31-year-old Wichita man is charged with first-degree murder in the death of an employee of Steckline Communications. Antwon D. Banks Sr. was charged Wednesday in the Feb. 9 death of 25-year-old Daniel Flores. Banks made his first appearance in Sedgwick County District Court Wednesday via a video link from Sedgwick County Jail, where he is being ...

12 years ago
A Kansas House committee has approved a resolution protesting President Barack Obama's plan on climate change after stripping out language suggesting the science behind it is flawed. The Energy and Environment Committee's voice vote Tuesday sends the measure to the House for debate. The nonbinding resolution says the plan released by the president last year would harm ...

12 years ago
A Kansas House committee is preparing to consider legislation that would bar use of the Common Core standards for reading and math in public schools. The bill scheduled for a hearing Wednesday by the House Education Committee would also create an advisory group to help develop new guidelines for teaching those subjects. It's the latest attempt by ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Republican Party is pushing legislators to change the dates of local elections and make them partisan, but a GOP-dominated state Senate committee hasn't embraced the entire plan. The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee debated a bill Wednesday that would hold city and school board elections in even-numbered years on the same schedule as legislative ...

12 years ago
Two 18-year-old Hutchinson High School students pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in a hazing incident involving "branding" of some of the school's football players. Jaiden Casanova and Kendric Hudson pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor charges alleging they used hot hangers to brand four freshmen football players in the school's locker room. They had faced felony battery ...

12 years ago
USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall is inviting the public to a community meeting tonight at the District Office at 1511 Gypsum. Hall, stopped into the KSAL Morning News Wednesday with a look at some of the issues and numbers associated with the upcoming bond issue this spring. A meeting open to the public will begin at ...