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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 ...

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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 ...

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A Salina Police officer is involved in a traffic accident while on patrol. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 52-year-old David Villanueva was driving his police unit northbound on South Ohio just before 10pm on Tuesday evening. A 1992 Chevy S-10 pickup truck driven by 17-year-old Ray Winters of Salina was also northbound on S. Ohio and made ...

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Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary in the 400 block of Putnam. Police say there was no sign of forced entry into the home Tuesday, when thieves apparently walked in sometime between 3:30pm and 7pm. Over $2,500 in electronics were stolen, including a 60-inch flat screen TV and a Sony Play Station 3 with controllers and ...

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UPDATE: A middle-school football coach has been charged with first-degree murder in the abduction and death of a 10-year-old girl in southwest Missouri. Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Patterson filed criminal charges late Wednesday afternoon against 45-year-old Craig Michael Wood of Springfield. He is charged with grabbing fourth-grader Hailey Owens off a neighborhood street on Tuesday afternoon, ...

12 years ago
The chairman of the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee says the panel won't consider a House-passed bill to protect people who refuse for religious reasons to provide goods and services to gay couples. Sen. Jeff King said Tuesday the legislation is dead. The bill bars government sanctions or anti-discrimination lawsuits against individuals, groups and businesses that cite religious ...

12 years ago
A southeast Kansas woman has been sentenced to slightly more than five years in prison for the strangulation death of her toddler son in the straps of a safety seat. The Joplin Globe reports 29-year-old Cara M. Lloyd was sentenced Tuesday in Crawford County District Court. The judge gave her credit for 320 days she has ...