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State and local officials are gathering in Manhattan to discuss water needs in Kansas and begin developing a 50-year plan for managing water resources. The daylong meeting Friday includes members of the State Board of Agriculture, the Kansas Water Authority and a council advising Gov. Sam Brownback on the economy. Brownback called in October for a 50-year ...

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A group of Kansas officials and economists will gather next week to study revenue projections for the coming year, determining if the state economy is growing and if tax receipts will keep government afloat. Legislative leaders on Thursday gave differing views of what the projections for the fiscal year that starts July 1 may look like, ...

12 years ago
A White House official says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. Website failures marred the opening weeks of the six-month enrollment period, but the administration rebounded strongly by ...

12 years ago
Federal prosecutors allege a Kansas metal finishing firm dumped untreated wastewater into a city sewer system. A 24-count indictment filed late Wednesday also accuses C & R Plating and its owner, Kevin L. Cline, with submitting fraudulent samples and reports of analysis to conceal the pollution from state environmental regulators. Cline did not immediately return a message ...

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The nine-foot statue of a well armed Viking that will be unveiled on Bethany's campus this weekend, grew out of a sketch artist Dick Bergen drew over 20-years ago. Bergen said financial concerns put a hold on the project then, "And the sketch went into a file," he said. After Bergen was named Kansan of Year in ...

12 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a business burglary northeast of Salina. Deputies say a shop that is located on a rural property in the 7000 block of E. Benfield Road was broken into sometime between April 5th and April 7th. Owner, Patrick Martin told officers his employee discovered the door on the shop had ...

12 years ago
A Salina man fires a shotgun as a call for help. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 67-year-old John N. Jednoralski became wedged between his bed and a wall at about 10:30pm on Wednesday night in his home in the 2000 block of Brookwood. Jednoralski told officers after unsuccessfully trying to free himself - he decided to fire ...

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Salinans rally Thursday to begin an annual effort to collect food for the hungry. Volunteers gathered to learn about Project Salina, and details about the upcoming 2014 effort. Project Salina unites multiple businesses and organizations in an effort to collect food for five agencies that serve meals, or distribute food, throughout the year. Project Salina began back ...

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Kansas Highway Patrol troopers say they are pleased how a new emphasis on using Twitter is helping communicate during storms or traffic problems. The patrol formed a group called the Tweeting Troopers earlier this year as a way to quickly spread information to a large audience. Trooper Gary Warner, who admits he was not a ...

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We are finally catching a break from the long, cold winter, but if you're hoping that the extreme cold has killed off spring pests, you're out of luck, according to Jeff Whitworth, associate professor of entomology at Kansas State University. "Whether they're going to survive is not the question," Whitworth said. "It's probably how many are ...

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Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick is trying to blunt criticism of a proposal passed by legislators to end tenure for public school teachers. The Stilwell Republican said Wednesday the measure does not strip teachers of their right to due legal process when they face dismissal. The Kansas National Education Association contends the measure included in a school ...