12 years ago
A date has been set for the arraignment and first court appearance of a Kansas metal finishing business and its owner accused of dumping untreated wastewater into a city sewer system. A federal judge scheduled the hearing April 22 hearing for C & R Plating and its owner, Kevin L. Cline, both of Minneapolis, Kan., in ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback is going on the road to meet with Kansas college students and administrators about recent decisions on funding for higher education. The governor scheduled visits Monday at Pittsburg, Emporia and Wichita state universities, concluding at Kansas State in Manhattan. He was being joined by Kenny Wilk, a member of the Kansas Board of ...

12 years ago
Three people are dead and at least one other is in critical condition in a pair of shootings at a Jewish community center and second location in Overland Park, Kansas. Police confirmed the three deaths, saying that two of the victims were shot at the community center and one at the second location, which they did ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman is hurt in a single vehicle crash in Western Kansas Sunday. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 50-year-old Catherine Mages was driving a 2001 Jeep Cherokee north on a rural road in Ford County. The SUV left the road, entered the east ditch, hit a private drive, went airborne, and landed in the ...

12 years ago
Shots are fired from a high powered rifle and a person is stabbed during an altercation outside a downtown Salina bar early Sunday. Police tell KSAL News that officers were called to the Inferno at 122 North Santa Fe at around 2:30 in the morning to a report of shots fired. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that ...

12 years ago
The former Cherokee County clerk responsible for changing voter registration status of more than 4,800 voters denies any wrongdoing. Cherokee County Clerk Rodney Edmondson says his office has discovered that about 4,838 voters may have had their statuses improperly moved from "active" to "canceled" between Dec 2010 and March 2011, while Crystal Gatewood was county clerk. Edmondson ...

12 years ago
The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is planning a big celebration to remember the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, or D-Day. On June 6th, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a ...

12 years ago
A free patriotic concert is planned in Salina Monday. According to the Salina Military Affairs Council, the United States Air Force Academy Concert band will be performing a free concert at the Stiefel Theatre. The concert will include programming from classical repertoire, current popular music to patriotic favorites. The concert in Salina is one stop apart of ...

12 years ago
A Purple Heart medal and other items belonging to a Kansas soldier killed in World War II has been returned to his family. Purple Hearts Reunited presented the medal awarded decades ago to PFC Alvie Leroy Scott to his niece, Mary Strotkamp, during a ceremony Saturday at the Liberty Memorial. Scott, who was born in Harvey County, ...

12 years ago
A western Kansas community has rallied to replace the prom venue after a fire at the school gym. The Wichita Eagle reports a fire was reported early Saturday in the La Crosse High School's gym, which is where the prom was going to be held Saturday night. La Crosse schools superintendent Bill Keeley says the prom was ...

12 years ago
Firefighters in Shawnee County had to contend with grass fires thanks to dry conditions and low humidity. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Shawnee County fire crews Friday put out one grass fire after another. Local fire officials thought because of low wind Friday would have been a good day for field burning, which is when Kansas landowners ...