8 years ago
All four Salina area legislators returned home for the third of three planned question and answer sessions with the public on Saturday. Over 30 people gathered, including Senator Randall Hardy and Representatives Steven Johnson, Diana Dierks, and J.R. Claeys for the townhall style question and answer session. Each legislator offered an opening statement, and then they fielded ...

8 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University is saddened to announce the death of men’s and women’s golf head coach Randy Bemiss. Coach Bemiss died on Friday, May 19, 2017. He was 67. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced when finalized. “Randy was much more than just another coach in our program. He cared deeply about the success of ...

8 years ago
Authorities have concluded that it was probably strong, straight line wind that caused damage in and around Salina Thursday evening and not a tornado. First responders in Saline County spent much of Thursday night assessing damage following severe weather that rolled through the area. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan says that though there was damage to ...

8 years ago
A man who fatally stabbed a student on the Wichita State University campus 40 years ago has died. Leonard Bell attacked 19-year-old Julie Ladd on May 15, 1977, when she interrupted him as he was trying to steal money from the coin-operated laundry machines in her basement dormitory. The Wichita Eagle reports that Ladd already was serving ...

8 years ago
Sometime between March 27, 2017 and May 12, 2017, unknown suspects broke into a former Stuckey’s building located at 11524 S. Old 81 Highway, near I-135 exit 78. Entry was gained by kicking in a door. Once inside the suspects damaged numerous items. Damage include spray painted graffiti on the walls, a broken ceiling fan and light ...

8 years ago
We bring the beer, you bring the good time at Salina on Tap! Saturday, September 23rd at Tony’s Pizza Events Center formerly Salina Bicentennial Center, Rocking M Media will proudly host its first ever beer festival! Sample over 60 different beers & microbrews, many from right here in the state of Kansas. Attendees will also ...

8 years ago
Damaging severe weather rolled across Central Kansas Thursday evening. Severe storms that formed in the Oklahoma panhandle rolled into Kansas dropping tornadoes throughout a large section of the state. In Central Kansas Saline County was under a tornado warning after a rotating wall cloud was spotted in the Brookville area. A possible rain-wrapped tornado was also reported. ...

8 years ago
A portrait of a Muslim teenager from Kansas painted by a schoolmate will soon be hung in the U.S. Capitol. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Topeka visited Washburn Rural High School on Monday to present a certificate to the artist, 18-year-old Claire Fallon. The Kansas congresswoman says Fallon's oil painting is the only ...

8 years ago
Police say a 23-year-old man has been arrested after trying to rob a Topeka bank with a sword. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the man was booked into the Shawnee County Jail on Tuesday in connection with an attempted robbery earlier that day. A police statement says the man walked into a Bank of America branch "wearing a ...

8 years ago
Forecasters are still anticipating a severe weather outbreak Thursday afternoon into Thursday evening. The National Weather Service in Wichita hosted a conference call event during the noon hour to discuss the developing situation. According to the bureau, there could be two rounds of storms. Initially, storms will develop in Oklahoma mid-afternoon and move into Kansas. This first ...

8 years ago
A trailer reported stolen from a landscaping company is spotted hours later behind a van in north Salina. Police arrested 48-year-old David Mersch on theft charges after an officer stopped him in the area of 5th Street and Woodland on Wednesday around 1pm. Staff at Landscape Consultants, 1777 E. Old 40 Highway reported the Diamond C. Roustabout ...