12 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is seeking a federal disaster declaration for 47 of the state's 105 counties to help residents and local governments recover from a string of severe storms and flooding. The Kansas Division of Emergency Management said Friday that Brownback sent the letter to President Barack Obama through the Kansas City, Mo., regional office ...

12 years ago
An off-road vehicle is stolen from a rural property. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a vehicle theft from a home in the 4000 block of N. Woodward Road. The owner contacted deputies after discovering his 1988 Jeep CJ5 "Rock Crawler" was missing. Deputies say the red and yellow vehicle has specialty hydraulic systems and is improved ...

12 years ago
A Salina high school student is arrested after a laptop is stolen. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, officers arrested 15-year-old Tyler Kirchner, after he allegedly removed a Dell laptop computer from a classroom he was attending at South High at the end of Thursday's last period. Police recovered the the computer, which is valued at $700 and ...

12 years ago
Non-Catholics have been supplying much of the crucial testimony about the Korean War heroics of Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest from Kansas who's being considered for sainthood. Most of Kapaun's former prisoner-of-war friends are Protestants, and another is a lapsed Catholic who left the Catholic church years ago. The Vatican is sending one of its ...

12 years ago
A Seattle woman plans to attend a weekend ceremony at the grave of her great grandfather, who escaped slavery and fought in the Civil War. Janice Lovelace says that her great grandfather John Crooms is buried at Eastside Cemetery. But his gravesite didn't have a headstone until recently. Lovelace says she contacted the Sons of ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism urge waterfowl hunters who use dogs to be vigilant for the presence of harmful blue-green algae. Dogs that swim in or drink water affected by a harmful algae bloom or eat dried algae along the shore may become ...

12 years ago
Bethany College’s fall student body is the largest enrolled in over 15 years. According to the school, with 665 students, the student body increased 8.3 percent from last fall. Driving the growth is the freshmen class, which grew to 184 students, up 40.5 percent from last fall. This is the largest freshmen class since 1997. “We are ...

12 years ago
Wichita State says it's working to improve the university's online learning, with a goal of increasing the number of online students. The university announced in a news release Thursday that it had established the Office of Online Learning and named an interim director. The university's new vice president for academic affairs, Tony Vizzini, says for ...

12 years ago
With a theme of "Bigger Together" the Salina Area United Way Friday morning kicked off its 2013 campaign. Volunteers gathered at the Webster Conference Center to learn about the campaign, and the organization. Several people spoke. Among them was "Ursula", a woman who credits United Way supported agency the Ashby House with helping her turn her ...

12 years ago
Hutchinson police say a 14-year-old boy is in custody after a fire at his home killed his mother and sister. Police say the boy is suspected of deliberately setting the fire on Thursday. The teenager has not been charged. District Attorney Keith Schroeder says investigators determined an accelerant was poured in several rooms on the ...

12 years ago
An anti-evolution group has filed a federal lawsuit to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools. Citizens for Objective Public Education argued in the lawsuit filed Thursday that the standards promote atheism and violate students' and parents' religious freedoms. The group had criticized the standards developed by Kansas and 25 other states ...