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 ...

12 years ago
Two photocopied pieces of paper taped to the front door of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is letting visitors in Topeka know the building is closed because of the federal government shutdown. Across Kansas, thousands of government employees were reporting to work Tuesday to prepare their offices for the shutdown, which ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Department of Education says a summer program served more than 1 million meals to needy children while public schools were out of session. The agency says that when its final numbers are tallied, it expects the number of meals served to be more than 11 percent higher than it was last year. Meals were offered ...

12 years ago
An SUV takes a wild ride before crashing and injuring two women late Monday afternoon in Dickinson County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 50-year-old Doreen Milligan of Clay Center was driving a Ford Explorer north on Camp Road. The SUV ran off the road into the east ditch, continued down the ditch, and jumped a ...

12 years ago
Hospitals are complaining that it's taking longer to get reimbursed since the state switched to a new managed care plan for Medicaid. When KanCare rolled out in January, most of the state's Medicaid recipients were moved into plans administered by three private companies. Cindy Samuelson of the Kansas Hospital Association says that since the switch, hospitals have ...

12 years ago
A 63-year-old Salina man charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor in the death of a bicycle rider in May has his first court date. According to the Saline County Attorney's Office, Lewis Grider and his attorney Roger Struble Monday morning were advised of the charges and potential penalties. Grider is accused of hitting 49-year-old ...