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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 ...

12 years ago
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 ...

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Problems with a new online system that administers assessment tests prompted the State Education Board to decide that all Kansas public schools will be accredited next year, without considering test results. Glitches were reported this week when several schools signed on to the system to begin administering math and reading assessment tests. The system, called KITE, ...

12 years ago
An independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general has concluded there "is no compelling medical reason" for the U.S. armed forces to prohibit transgender Americans from serving. It's urging President Barack Obama to lift the ban by executive order. The five-member panel was convened by a think tank based at San Francisco State University. ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas Student Senate has voted to eliminate a student fee that supports women's and non-revenue sports. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has the authority to reject the Wednesday's vote on the nearly 35-year-old fee. The fee costs students $25 each semester. Students have been paying the fee since the late 1970s to help the university comply ...

12 years ago
Authorities say a man suspected of stealing 23 cattle also apparently stashed a lot of stolen property in central Kansas. Stafford County Sheriff Jeff Parr says the man was arrested last week in the cattle theft from a county ranch. He says investigators on Monday found items such as a recreational vehicle camper, car trailers, a ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Senate has approved regulations for counselors who help consumers navigate an online insurance marketplace created by the federal health care overhaul strongly opposed by most Republican state officials. Wednesday's 30-10 vote in the GOP-dominated Senate sends the measure to the House. The bill would require health care the so-called health care navigators to register with ...

12 years ago
Kansas legislators are trying to help the state's microbreweries by increasing the amount of beer they can make each year. The state Senate approved a bill Wednesday to raise the limit on manufacturing by microbreweries to 30,000 barrels of beer a year, instead of 15,000 barrels over the two-year term of their licenses. The chamber's 40-0 ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Senate has given first-round approval to a proposal from the state Republican Party to make it harder for voters to switch parties before primary elections. The Senate's voice vote Wednesday advanced the bill to another, final vote. Passage on the second vote would send the bill to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback because the House ...