A 19-year-old Salina man was arrested Tuesday evening on charges of aggravated assault and criminal threats.

Police were sent to an apartment building in the 1200 block of N. 4th about 9:15pm after Christopher Postlewait allegedly threatened another resident of the building, 29-year-old Edward Yeadon, with a butter knife to his throat and accused him of stealing some of his personal property.

No one was injured and Postlewait was booked into the Saline County Jail.

Kansas transportation officials have released a list of more than 430 construction projects totaling $1.1 billion to be carried out in the next two budget years, including several that are already under way.

The list released Wednesday includes some major projects that were previously announced by the Kansas Department of Transportation. They include completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway in Douglas County; expansion of U.S. 54/Kellogg Avenue in Wichita; and improvements to the junction of Kansas 10 and Interstates 35 and 435 in Johnson County.

The projects are part of the state’s 10-year program for improving highways, airports and public transportation.

KDOT says the projects cover the fiscal year that began July 1 and continue through June 30, 2015.

A central Kansas prosecutor is investigating possible electioneering at polling places during last week’s voting.

The McPherson Sentinel reports four anti-abortion voters’ guides were left in voting booths at a McPherson church and the Lindsborg Safety Center. McPherson County Clerk Cathy Schmidt says the guides appeared to be printed from a website.

Kansas law prohibits electioneering, such as wearing or handing out various labels or materials, inside polling places on election day. It’s also banned within 250 feet of a polling place.

McPherson County Attorney David Page says electioneering is a serious matter, but proving criminal intent to influence voting is difficult.

Page says he’s looking into the case, but hopes to use it to educate the public about what citizens may and may not do on election day.

Two 1st Infantry Division soldiers from Fort Riley have died of wounds they suffered in separate attacks in Afghanistan.

Officials at the northeast Kansas post say 26-year-old Staff Sgt. Matthew Stiltz, of Spokane, Wash., was killed Monday during an insurgent attack in the Zerok district.

On Friday, 37-year-old Capt. James D. Nehl, of Gardiner, Ore., died in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghanzi Province.

Fort Riley officials announced the two deaths Tuesday.

Stiltz was a member of the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry and had been at Fort Riley since 2006. It was his first deployment to Afghanistan after two deployments to Iraq.

Nehl was with the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry and had been at Fort Riley since May. He served previously in Iraq and was on his first deployment to Afghanistan.

An immigrant who claims her family was killed in Mexico over a marijuana bust in Kansas now faces deportation after a federal judge tried to set her free.

Norma Quintana was sentenced Tuesday to time served for failing to appear at a 2010 federal trial on a charge of possession with intent to distribute 160 pounds of marijuana. The drug charge was dismissed as part of a deal for her guilty plea to a charge of fleeing.

Quintana has been in custody since her April arrest. A court filing indicates her husband, son and brother were gunned down in Mexico in April 2010.

Quintana is a legal U.S. resident, but immigrants convicted of an aggravated felony are subject to automatic removal from the United States.

By Dewey Terrill ~ Little Apple Post

Anthony Middle School in Manhattan was evacuated this morning after a suspicious note was found in one of the student restrooms.

USD 383 Communications Coordinator Michelle Jones said, “It was a bomb threat basically. We evacuated the building, and the students all evacuated safely to their evacuation location.

During the evacuation the students went to St. Thomas Moore Catholic Church.

Jones reported Riley County police and the school administration swept the building. “About 11 o’clock we decided to cancel school and release students for the rest of the day why we did some more investigating. ” Jones confirmed she expects the students to be in class on Wednesday.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service plans to add 500 workers in Overland Park.

The agency said Tuesday the new workers will help with extra paperwork caused by a presidential order this summer that allows young undocumented workers to stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

The employees will work for the CIS national benefits center, with operations expected to begin in mid-December.

The presidential directive applied to illegal immigrants not over the age of 30 who came to the U.S. when they younger than 16. They have to live in the country for at least five years and have no felony or significant misdemeanor convictions.

A stray dog cared for by residents of a central Kansas town for more than eight years finally has a home.

The dog lived all those years near Buhler, eluding numerous efforts to catch her. Residents dubbed her D.D., short for “Ditch Dog.”

They also did all they could to care for the dog, setting out food and watching out for her safety.

But no one could get close enough to catch the dog. But recently, resident Rachelle Cavanaugh began slowly taming the animal after she noticed it apparently had developed arthritis.

After weeks of work, D.D. finally accepted Cavanaugh’s help and went home to live with her and three other dogs.

TD.D. has some anxiety but mostly has adjusted to her new home.

A Dickinson County woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $800,000 from the credit union where she worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

Pamela Emig, 46, Solomon, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement. In her plea, Emig admitted that from 2005 to 2011 she embezzled $817,167 while she was working for Enterprise Credit at 102 Factory in Enterprise, Kan.

Emig admitted she kited checks between accounts under her control at the credit union to cover up embezzlements and increasingly larger shortages. She would make a large deposit toward the end of the month and include the deposit in the general ledger, but the actual deposit would not be sent to the corporate checking account until the middle of the next month. At that time another larger check would be drafted out of another account at the credit union.

Sentencing is set for Feb. 11. Grissom commended the FBI, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Hathaway and Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Kenney for their work on the case.

An elderly Hutchinson man has died from injuries he suffered when he was hit by a car as walked along a street Sunday.

Police say 77-year-old Neil J. Kralicek died Monday at a Wichita hospital. He was hit by a car driven by 43-year-old Valerie S. Avery.

Kralicek was airlifted Sunday to the Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis in Wichita. Avery was not injured.

Hutchinson police continue to investigate.

Republican strategist Karl Rove heads to Wichita later this month to address the 100th annual convention of the Kansas Livestock Association.

Rove is the featured speaker at the association’s banquet on Nov. 28. He’s expected to discuss what this month’s elections mean for the nation, especially the agricultural sector.

Rove was deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.

The convention runs Nov. 28-30. Also on the agenda are readings from cowboy entertainer and former veterinarian Baxter Black, and a session on market outlooks with a top official from the beef industry information company CattleFax.