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Kansas Forest Service officials will hold a wildland fire training session this month for state and regional responders. The weeklong event starts March 23 and will focus on reducing hazardous fuels that can lead to rapid spread of fires in wild areas. Crews will be working near Toronto State Lake in southeast Kansas and at the Kansas ...

12 years ago
Police in Wichita say a man who wanted a massage from a naked woman in his motel room changed his mind when she disrobed and ended up fleeing after being threatened by her boyfriend. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1hgvKrf ) reports the woman arrived at the man's room at the Howard Johnson Express Inn shortly after 11 ...

12 years ago
Kansas House Democratic Leader Paul Davis says Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-controlled Legislature should immediately increase aid to poor school districts by $129 million. Davis said Thursday the increase should be the response to a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling that past reductions in such aid created unconstitutional gaps in funding between poor ...

12 years ago
President Barack Obama has nominated Topeka Police Chief Ronald Lee Miller to serve as U.S. Marshal for Kansas. The announcement was made Thursday in a news release from the White House. Obama says Miller has dedicated his career to protecting his fellow citizens. The president says Miller has displayed courage and persistence in the ...

12 years ago
A northwest Kansas county has been hit with a second round of suspicious fires in less than a week, this one involving 10 fires in less than three hours. An investigator from the State Fire Marshal's office was on the scene Thursday, looking at the evidence in Ellis County outside the Hays city limits. Ellis ...

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Officers arrested 53-year-old Barbara Guster Wednesday night after police were called to a home in the 100 block of S. Chicago around 9pm for a domestic disturbance. Police say Guster urged officers to remove her boyfriend from the house after the two apparently had been involved in an argument. The woman then reportedly grabbed an 8-inch kitchen ...

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Great Bend will be without air service at the end of March, after Great Lakes Airlines notified the city this week that it plans to end service a month early. Airport Manager Martin Miller announced the news Thursday. The Cheyenne, Wyo.-based airline had been scheduled to end its service at the end of April. Great ...

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A student is arrested at Salina South High for allegedly selling drugs on campus. Police arrested 17-year-old Elijah Schremmer on Wednesday after he allegedly sold 9 Clonazepm pills to a 15-year-old male student at the school around 8:15am. Police say the boy took a number of the pills and collapsed on the floor. He was transported to ...

12 years ago
A head on traffic crash follows a stabbing in Salina. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, police and ambulance units were working at an apartment building in the 500 block of E. Crawford just before 7am on Thursday morning after a 44-year-old male was stabbed with a knife. Captain Sweeney tells KSAL News that it appears a 99-year-old ...

12 years ago
First responders spread out in Southern Saline County in search of a downed helicopter Thursday morning. A report of a K-State Salina training helicopter making an emergency landing prompted the search. Kansas State Troopers located the helicopter in a wheat field, just off Ohio Street, near the Saline / McPherson County line in McPherson County. KHP Trooper ...

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University of Kansas officials say the school's multi-million dollar 10-year master plan would expand academic and research programs and tie the Lawrence campus together. The university previewed the plan Wednesday for the Kansas Board of Regents, which unanimously approved the summary document. The final plan will be released in the spring. That plan will ...