13 years ago
Southwest Airlines has begun service to Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport. Wichita city officials said in a release that Southwest's first flight from Chicago arrived in Wichita on Sunday afternoon. Mayor Carl Brewer says the addition of Southwest will beef up economic development efforts for the south-central Kansas city. Southwest's initial schedule includes two daily flights to Dallas, Chicago ...

13 years ago
It took ten days, but Sunday morning the 2013 Festival Quest ended. This year's coveted medallion turned out to be a cast of a bean pod, with a note inside it. Shortly after Sunday's clue was released, Denise Tarver of Salina found the prize. The pod shaped medallion was discovered in a public green space, just north ...

13 years ago
A Salina man is arrested in connection with a fatal hit and run accident. Acording to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 62-year-old Lewis Grider of 1007 Hartford was arrested late Friday evening. Grider is accused of hitting 49-year-old Gail Lynne Kline, who was riding a bicycle on West Crawford Street west of Salina Friday morning. She was found ...

13 years ago
Four people are hurt in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 west of Salina Saturday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2004 Pontiac Bonneville passenger car and a 1998 Dodge Durango SUV were headed west. The car rear-ended the SUV. Both vehicles slid into the north ditch,  and the SUV rolled. The driver of the car, ...

13 years ago
A ceremony at a Hawaii national cemetery will honor an Army chaplain from Kansas who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. In April, President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor to Capt. Emil Kapaun, who risked his life dodging gunfire to provide medical and spiritual aid to wounded soldiers before dying in captivity ...

13 years ago
Recent rain has raised water levels at Cheney Reservoir slightly, but officials say more heavy downpours are needed to improve the drought. The Wichita Eagle reports that Cheney was nearly 68 percent full after rainstorms this week, up 3 to 5 percent from last week. Brian Haug, park ranger at Cheney Reservoir, says the rain has helped, ...

13 years ago
A Wichita area nurse has been convicted on federal charges accusing her of taking part in a scheme involving more than $700,000 in fraudulent Medicaid billings. The Wichita Eagle reports that 48-year-old Caela M. White-Kinchion, of Bel-Aire was convicted by a federal jury of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and 11 counts ...

13 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas revenue collections exceeded estimates by $65.9 million in May, aided by one time revenue paid by taxpayers who made payments ahead of federal tax increases. The Kansas Department of Revenue said Friday that the state collected $583.2 million in May, an increase of 12.7 percent above the $517.4 million that was ...

13 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed legislation restricting the use of state funds to promote or oppose gun control policies. The measure signed Friday takes effect in July. It passed the Legislature this year with strong support from gun rights advocates. The new law will prohibit local governments and school districts from using funds they get from ...

13 years ago
A Kansas Senate committee has introduced legislation that would pause the implementation of new standards for math and reading in public schools. The bill would create an 11-member legislative panel to review decisions by the State Board of Education on adopting and implementing any uniform education standards. The Senate Ways and Means Committee began reviewing the proposal ...

13 years ago
The hunt continues for the River Festival medallion. Salinans flocked to the Schilling St. dike this afternoon, combing through the grass and brush. The search has brought hunters together for a common purpose. "Looking for the medallion has created it's own little subculture of people that all kind of know each other now because of it," Luke, ...