12 years ago
A retired Marine sergeant who lost both legs in Afghanistan is getting a new fully accessible home in Reno County. James "Matt" Amos will receive the key to the home in a ceremony Saturday. Amos lost both legs in an explosion in 2011 when he was on his third deployment to Afghanistan. ...

12 years ago
Authorities have identified a person killed in a Hutchinson house fire as an 11-year-old girl. The blaze early Thursday also sent the girl's mother to a Wichita hospital, where she was listed in critical condition. Two other people in the house escaped without injury. The girl's name was not immediately released. Investigators are looking for ...

12 years ago
Police make three arrests after curb-side drug deals are made in a Salina neighborhood. According to Drug Task Force Commander Lt Jim Norton, police received several tips about suspected drug activity at 823 Gypsum. Monday, police used a search warrant to enter the residence and arrested 52-year-old Garry D. Jelken and 62-year-old Marilyn R. Jelken on charges ...

12 years ago
A Manhattan woman says she was fired and has received death threats after posting comments on Facebook that criticized the military. Meagan May posted a comment in September that she did not consider the military heroic and criticizing military personnel for expecting discounts at businesses. May says that she posted the comments because she believes ...

12 years ago
The penguins at Salina's Rolling Hills Zoo are staying a little longer. Four African penguins that arrived back in April were scheduled to leave at the end of September. Instead, Penguin Landing will stay open three extra weeks, through October 20th. The traveling exhibit, which has been very popular at the zoo, creates a unique opportunity for ...

12 years ago
The Salina-based Land Institute has been awarded two federal grants totaling more than $650,000 that will help fund the institute's development of perennial milo. The U.S. Agency for International Development will provide $500,000 over five years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture also will give about $160,000 to the Land Institute over the next two years ...

12 years ago
A 63-year-old Salina man is charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor in the death of a bicycle rider in May. Saline County prosecutors announced Wednesday they had charged Lewis Grider with reckless involuntary manslaughter, leaving the scene of an injury or fatality accident, and failing to report an accident. His first court appearance is ...

12 years ago
Descendants of the man who penned "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" are headed to northeast Kansas this week to take part in a celebration of the enduring novel. Roger and Robert Baum, great-grandsons of L. Frank Baum, will be in Wamego on Saturday and Sunday for the city's ninth annual OZtoberFest event. Robert Baum and his wife, ...

12 years ago
Kansas regulators are reviewing a proposal to let the state's largest electric company raise rates for residential customers by an average of $3 a month. The Kansas Corporation Commission's hearing Thursday focuses on a settlement involving Westar Energy and representatives of its customers. The deal would let Westar boost overall rates by about $31 million annually, ...

12 years ago
Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer says a report shows that a new online health insurance marketplace set up for Kansas by the federal government isn't competitive enough. Colyer said Wednesday that data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services raises questions about whether many Kansans will pay high premiums for coverage through the online marketplace ...

12 years ago
Vast, vital and vulnerable is the Ogallala Aquifer. Lying beneath eight U.S. states and encompassing more than 170,000 acres, the Ogallala is a sizeable and important water resource that has brought life to Kansans in both rural and urban areas. Not only is the aquifer used for production agriculture, but it also provides water for ...