8 years ago
Authorities say an eastern Kansas teen who was critically injured in an accidental shooting last week has died. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Lt. Colleen Stuart identified the victim as 16-year-old Angel Quinones. Quinones was taken to a local hospital Wednesday night in a private vehicle. Police officers who arrived at the hospital found him with a ...

8 years ago
They're fun to own and many like having chickens around just for the fresh eggs. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning that backyard poultry like chicks, chickens, ducklings, ducks, geese and turkeys can carry germs. The CDC says germs from a variety of birds can cause illnesses ranging from skin infections ...

8 years ago
Tuesday is the last day to buy an advance Smoky Hill River Festival Button for $10. The buttons are on sale at 30 locations around Salina and in 19 cities around Kansas until close of business June, 6 2017. Festival buttons can be purchased at the gate for $15. The button is good for all 2017 events from ...

8 years ago
The sentencing for a Lawrence man who stabbed his grandmother to death has been delayed while he awaits an evaluation at Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility. Eighteen-year-old Jaered Long's plea agreement in April required that he undergo the evaluation to determine where he would serve his sentence for killing 67-year-old grandmother, Deborah Bretthauer in 2015. The ...

8 years ago
An area business man and the Salina Police Department are working to find out who wrote fraudulent checks from an area business. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the checks were from Feb. 17, 2017. Mohanad Khmous, 45, of Manhattan, says that he found four fraudulent checks written on the business account for IHOP Restaurant ...

8 years ago
Police say a child has been rushed to a hospital in critical condition after being found in a hot car in Wichita. Sgt. Jesse Hancock reports that the girl and her siblings apparently had been playing hide and seek Monday before her father found her. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2qXIz9C ) reports that it wasn't immediately known ...

8 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is promising to veto an income tax increase approved by Kansas lawmakers to fix the state budget and meet a court mandate on school funding. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved a bill early Tuesday morning that would raise $1.2 billion over two years by repealing or rolling back past income tax cuts championed ...

8 years ago
The Kansas House has rejected a bill that would have raised income taxes and increased spending on public schools. The vote Monday was 91-32 against a bill that would have raised more than $1 billion over two years with higher taxes. The measure also would have phased in a $293 million increase in aid to public ...

8 years ago
OCCK, Inc. Transportation, including Salina CityGo, will be offering free rides and extended hours to patrons of the Smoky Hill River Festival. Any passengers with a River Festival button, that ride CityGo or Paratransit vehicles, will be allowed to ride for free on Thursday, June 8th, Friday, June 9th or Saturday, June 10th, 2017. CityGo passengers must ...

8 years ago
A new Kansas museum is giving enthusiasts of late motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel a jump on appreciating his death-defying, bone-breaking exploits. The $5-million, 13,000-square-foot homage to the man famous for rocket-powered and motorbike stunts before his 2007 death has opened in Topeka. As president of the two-story museum attached to his Harley-Davidson dealership, Mike Patterson says Knievel ...

8 years ago
A Salina man left his home for a few minutes to come back to find many of his belonging stolen. Jaylen Parks, 19, left his 226 1/2 S. 10th Street home in Salina. When he returned minutes later, he found his back door had been kicked in, Xbox One game console, eight pairs of Nike Retro ...