12 years ago
The federal government shutdown has hit Kansas, where signs have been posted at Farm Service Agency offices around the state saying the offices will reopen once Congress restores federal funding. The federal shutdown began shortly after midnight Monday, when Congress couldn't reach a budget deal. Funding for the Affordable Care Act is the main contention ...

12 years ago
Fort Riley civilian employees received notices of furloughs Tuesday following a government shutdown effective 12:01 a.m. Eastern Oct. 1. Furloughs will affect hundreds of civilian workers across a broad spectrum of services at Fort Riley. Effects of the shutdown will vary across the post. “Annual funding for the federal government expired on September 30, 2013,” Fort ...

12 years ago
Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss announced today that the Supreme Court has reappointed Jerome P. Hellmer to a two-year term as Chief Judge of the 28th Judicial District, effective January 1, 2014. Judge Hellmer has served as a district judge since 1996 in the 28th Judicial District. He presides over cases in Saline ...

12 years ago
A 65-year-old man has died after his pickup truck was hit by a tractor-trailer that was trying to pass on a northeast Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Larry Roger Mueller, of Hanover, was eastbound on U.S. 36 when the semi tried to pass his pickup. The semi couldn't complete the pass and moved back ...

12 years ago
A special awareness event will kick off Salina Breast Cancer Awareness Month Thursday evening. Early detection of breast cancer in its most curable stages and new treatments have greatly increased the odds for survival. In recognition of national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Tammy Walker Cancer Center at Salina Regional Health Center and Salina Downtown, Inc., ...

12 years ago
Seven-hundred Kansas National Guard personnel are being sent home as the impact of the federal government shutdown takes hold. Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard, says Tuesday that the furloughs affect about one-third of the Guard's federal employees. The soldiers perform a variety of administrative, maintenance and unit readiness functions. Many of ...

12 years ago
Authorities are investigating after a man's body was found in a ditch near the Sedgwick County town of Kechi. KAKE reports that a man walking his dog found the body in a ditch Monday morning. Lt. Dave Mattingly of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office says the man has been identified as 23-year-old Deandre Freeman Jr. He said ...

12 years ago
A Kansas Insurance Department official is advising consumers in her state to be patient in trying to buy health coverage through a new online insurance marketplace. Linda Sheppard said Tuesday that glitches with the rollout of major new technology wouldn't be unusual, even without the partial shutdown of the federal government. Sheppard is the Insurance ...

12 years ago
A vehicle left on Interstate-70 is ravaged by thieves. Saline County Sheriff's Deputies recovered a stolen car, after someone destroyed the interior and stole all four tires and wheels from a 2011 Chevy Impala. Ronald Amaker of Junction City left his car on the shoulder of eastbound I-70, Saturday afternoon after a flat tire. He told deputies he ...

12 years ago
Two artist-created billboards showing a rifleman pointing at an iconic Kansas City sculpture of an American Indian on horseback have been taken down. The billboards from artist A. Bitterman drew complaints after they went up last week in the Crossroads Arts District near downtown. They were supposed to remain on display until Oct. 21 but ...

12 years ago
A Salina mother is facing a charge of endangering a child after she allegedly left 3 children alone at home to run an errand. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, officers were called to the Kwik Shop at the corner of Crawford and Fairdale after a 5-year-old girl walked in to look for her mother just after ...