12 years ago
Lawrence police are still seeking information about the recent death of a 52-year-old man and the apparent disappearance of a 19-year-old woman who had been living at the man's home. Harold Sasko was found dead in his Lawrence home Jan. 17. Police had gone to the house looking for Sarah Brooke Gonzales McLinn, who had been ...

12 years ago
Are Girl Scouts ready to hit the streets? It's almost cookie time. According to the Girl Scouts, your favorite cookie entrepreneurs will be out and about in uniform beginning Feb. 8th, selling your favorite cookies: Thin Mints; Caramel deLites; Peanut Butter Patties; Thanks-A-Lots; Peanut Butter Sandwiches; Lemonades; and Shortbreads, and new to the Cookie Sale, Cranberry ...

12 years ago
Registration is open for a unique outdoors event designed for women. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, the 2014 Spring Becoming An Outdooes Woman workshop will give women a chance to immerse themselves in everything outdoors. Women can learn things like what baits catch what fish, how to start a fire with ...

12 years ago
The New Madrid fault zone in the nation’s midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported this week. It’s “not dead yet,” said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, who was part of the study published online by the journal Science. Researchers have long debated just how much of a hazard New Madrid poses. ...

12 years ago
A historic downtown Salina building will be demolished this weekend. According to Salina Downtown Inc.,the 1887 Wight Brothers’ building at 109-111 North Seventh will be torn down on Saturday. Back in November the building was designated an imminent threat to collapse. The demo will begin late in the morning and is expected to take most of ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback remains confident that the Kansas economy will continue to show strength and generate revenues to fund his budget proposals. Speaking to reporters Friday, the governor says his administration's experience in the past three years in setting priorities and building reserves support his optimism. Brownback wants to increase spending in three areas in ...

12 years ago
It started when a Kansas Highway Patrol officer pulled over two Kansas City, Mo., sisters for speeding near the Colorado border and found a small amount of marijuana. Three days later, one woman lay dying in a northwest Kansas jail cell as the other frantically tried to revive her. Now, Joy Biggs is ...

12 years ago
Tickets to see a multi-grammy award winning rocker went on sale Friday morning in Salina. Ticket sales to see Rob Thomas began at 9:00. By mid-morning, ticket sales were strong. Rob Thomas will perform at the the Stiefel Theatre in April as part of a month-long North American special headline run. According to Thomas's record company, these ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has announced changes to a mental health clinic in Kansas City, Kan., and the Osawatomie State Hospital. The governor said Thursday that 111 positions previously located at the Rainbow Mental Health Facility in Kansas City, Kan., are being permanently moved to the Osawatomie hospital. Rainbow Mental Health will become a 24/7 crisis stabilization center ...

12 years ago
Teachers in a southwest Kansas school district have joined teachers in four other districts in leaving the state's main teachers union. Teachers in Spearville, which is near Dodge City, voted on Wednesday to leave the Kansas National Education Association. They will join the Association of American Educators, which provides services but does not bargain for ...

12 years ago
Security has been increased at Lawrence City Hall after some city commission members received threatening emails. Commissioner Bob Schumm says the emails arrived about three weeks ago from a resident upset with a proposed rental licensing and inspection program. He says the threats included going to commission members' homes with a gun. Two uniformed police officers now ...