7 years ago
Sedgwick County is out of the running for a new operations center for Tyson Foods. Officials with the Greater Wichita Partnership yesterday said a lack of county support to provide incentives is the reason. The company had announced two months ago it was eyeing the county for its new operations center. Story from Metro Source Copyright © Rocking M ...

7 years ago
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has confirmed the presence of invasive zebra mussels in Geary State Fishing Lake in Geary County. Zebra mussel larvae, also called veligers, were detected in routine samples collected by KDWPT staff. With this discovery, staff returned to the lake and located an established population of adult zebra ...

7 years ago
No one was injured in a fire that damaged a home in Culver on Thursday morning. Ottawa County Sheriff Keith Coleman told KSAL News that first responders were called to a fire at a home at 221 Main Street in Culver. A neighbor ran to the scene to assist before firefighters arrived. Nate Willard told KSAL News that ...

7 years ago
A group of Kansas Highway Patrol recruits had their badges pinned on Thursday afternoon in Salina and officially became Kansas Highway Patrol troopers and Capitol Police officers . The 43 new officers were part of KHP Recruit Class #57, the latest graduates from the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy. The Patrol’s 38 newest troopers and five ...

7 years ago
Salina Police are investigating four incidents of spray paint vandalism that are likely connected. According to Captain Paul Forrester, vandals tagged a wall at Fountain Plaza at 2100 S. 9th, a fence and dumpster at Casey's located at 725 W. Schilling Road and a wall at Diehl Construction, 522 Bishop. All the sites had the phrase 'Ground ...

7 years ago
No one was hurt when a semi hauling a load of hay caught fire Wednesday evening along Interstate 70 near Salina. Firefighters from Rural Fire District 3 and Rural Fire District 7 responded to the fire, which was located in the area of milepost 242 west of Salina. Officials tell KSAL News that it appeared the fire ...

7 years ago
Deputies make an arrest after a truck that was stolen in Beloit was found in Bridgeport. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 20-year-old Jay Mott of Beloit was taken into custody on Wednesday after investigators interviewed a mix of people who saw him driving the 2004 Chevy Silverado. Sheriff Soldan says the truck owned ...

7 years ago
The Bethany Swedes jumped out to a 15-1 lead Wednesday night at the Freeman Center in York, NE, and never looked back en route to a 76-42 win. The 34 point margin of victory was Bethany’s largest in league play since February 18, 2006. Bethany clamped down defensively and held York to only four field goals ...

7 years ago
Nearly everyone is familiar with the striped skunk, a common Kansas furbearer known for its striking black body and white stripe down its back and, of course, the odor. However, there is a much rarer species of skunk living in Kansas that most people are not familiar with: the Eastern spotted skunk. And biologists with ...

7 years ago
The Kansas State Wildcat football team is going West. The Wildcats accepted an invitation to the Cactus Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona on December 26. The opponent: UCLA Bruins. UCLA fired its head coach Jim Mora earlier in the year and quickly found a replacement in former Oregon coach Chip Kelly. The Bruins also have a projected top-five ...

7 years ago
A Wichita aviation company is planning a large expansion. Spirit AeroSystems announced yesterday it will invest one-billion-dollars in its Wichita operations and construct a new building on its campus. The company also plans to create one-thousand new jobs by 2019. Most of the new jobs will include mechanics, technicians, machine operators and production.     Story: MetroSource News