12 years ago
Conservative Republicans who control state government in Kansas have been clear from the beginning that they view the federal overhaul of health care as wrong-headed. But with the rollout of a new online health insurance marketplace, some advocates for the uninsured wonder whether Kansans have enough information about changes wrought by the 2010 federal law. Insurance Commissioner ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Board of Regents is reporting a system wide drop in fall enrollment. The Board of Regents says preliminary fall enrollments are down overall from last year about 1.3 percent, which is about 2,504 students across the state's 32 public universities, community colleges and technical colleges. The regents say enrollment is up at the state's technical ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Wesleyan Community came together in celebration Friday afternoon as the 19th President of The school was inaugurated. Family friends, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered on campus as Dr. Matthew R. Thompson climbed the steps at Pioneer Hall to take the oath of office. Dr. Thompson, who actually arrived in Salina back in April after ...

12 years ago
Upgrades to a local substation will require a scheduled power outage for the towns of Tescott, Beverly, Ada, Barnard, Westfall, Shady Bend and surrounding rural areas. Westar Energy will begin the outage at 11:59 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, and expects power to be restored at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. The outage is necessary so that Westar crews can ...

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 ...