12 years ago
A range fire has burned about 4,000 acres in east-central Kansas, injuring one firefighter. The injured firefighter suffered minor burns in the blaze Thursday. Authorities say the grass fire, which also destroyed a fire truck, started in Lyon County and pushed into Osage and Coffey counties. Rick Frevert, with Lyon County Emergency Management, said more than 4,000 ...

12 years ago
The field of finalists for the presidency of Fort Hays State University has been narrowed to five, with interviews on the northwest Kansas campus to begin next week. The state Board of Regents says the person chosen to succeed Ed Hammond will assume office around July 1. Hammond announced last year that he would retire at the ...

12 years ago
Some changes are coming to the Salina Police Department - on the street and over the phone. According to Captain Sean Morton, as of Monday March 24th, citizens who call SPD's Office line will be greeted with an auto attendant phone system. Captain Morton tells KSAL News that it will benefit both employees and citizens alike, "It ...

12 years ago
Salina Police make four arrests after reviewing video from a store's parking lot. According to Captain Sean Morton, staff at the Korner Store at 9th and Crawford called police when they witnessed someone throwing items into their dumpster on Thursday morning. The property had been reported stolen from a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent's personal truck that ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court denies an appeal in a Salina sex case. According to court documents released Friday morning, justices unanimously affirmed 69-year-old Rasmus R. Eddy's Saline County convictions of sex offenses involving a child. Eddy is currently serving a prison sentence in connection with a 2009 case in which he was convicted of showing pornography ...

12 years ago
Salina Police have started issuing warnings for vehicles that are parked in front yards on unimproved surfaces. The warnings ask that the vehicle be moved and parked legally. According to the City of Salina, the Standard Traffic Ordinance Chapter 38, Article 1, Section 89(13) & 85(14) does not allow parking of vehicles within the ‘yard’. It ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas has received a $1 million donation that will be used for a new business school scholarship program. The gift from Jerry and Kay Jennett, of Valdosta, Ga., will create the Jerry and Kay Jennett Finance Scholars Program. Jerry Jennett is a 1963 graduate of the university and CEO of Georgia Sulfur Corp. The school ...

12 years ago
A Kansas Senate committee has voted to repeal the state's renewable energy standards. The measure would repeal the 2009 Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS, which required major utility companies to have the capacity to generate 10 percent of their energy through a renewable source by 2011. It also called for the companies to generate 15 percent ...

12 years ago
A Missouri dentist has been named director of the Bureau of Oral Health in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Agency Secretary Robert Moser announced the appointment of Dr. Cathy Taylor-Osborne this week. Taylor-Osborne is dental director of Cabot Westside Medical and Dental Center in Kansas City, Mo. She succeeds Dr. Kathy Weno, who left the ...

12 years ago
Fred Phelps Sr. led his small Topeka church for more than two decades in a bellicose crusade against gays and lesbians, declaring that the U.S. was doomed because of its tolerance of homosexuality. But the tactics of Phelps and his Westboro Baptist followers created public circuses that some say may have helped the gay-rights movement. Protesters targeted ...

12 years ago
A leader of the Southern Baptist Convention says it has no connection whatsoever to the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church founded by the Rev. Fred Phelps, who died late Wednesday at the age of 84. The Rev. Russell Moore, president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, calls Westboro's message that God hates gays an ugly ...