8 years ago
Eight Soldiers enrolled in Fort Riley’s Career Skills Program will receive their Tower Technician certifications during a graduation ceremony, this week on Thursday. Airstreams Renewables, Inc. offers a seven-week course, “Renewable Energy and Communications Tower Technician” as part of Fort Riley’s Soldier for Life Transition Assistance Program. Airstreams Renewables, Inc., is a California-based company that provides ...

8 years ago
A Wichita man who texted a photo of his dead girlfriend to family has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her. Forty-two Jonathan Perret won't be eligible for parole for 25 years under the sentence imposed Tuesday. He pleaded guilty last month to felony murder for fatally shooting 42-year-old Melissa Englert while she checked ...

8 years ago
Fort Riley says a 23-year-old soldier who drowned over the weekend while swimming at a lake with his family was from Arizona. The base said Tuesday that Spc. Xavier Joseph Harden was from Tolleson, Arizona. Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf said previously Harden went under Sunday afternoon when he jumped off a flotation device to help ...

8 years ago
Kansas officials say the troubling rise in traffic fatalities across the state is accelerating. AAA spokeswoman Jennifer Haugh tells the Wichita Eagle that Kansas is currently averaging more than one traffic fatality a day. Data from AAA shows that there have been nearly 175 traffic deaths across the state this year through the end of May. That's ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a damage to property case after someone shot out the windows on a party bus. Police say sometime between 2pm Saturday and 7:45am Monday morning, someone used a BB-gun or pellet gun to shatter 8 windows and the windshield on a purple bus with K-State decals while it was parked behind Copy ...

8 years ago
A nonprofit organization that purchased the last known airplane identical to the one Amelia Earhart flew has announced plans for a new airport facility in Kansas that will serve as a museum to showcase the plane and as a terminal for airport traffic. The News-Press Now reports the Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation is finalizing renderings of ...

8 years ago
A Salina ambulance en route to help a woman in Gypsum early Tuesday morning was damaged by a deer. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 43-year-old Chad Perez was driving a 2001 Dodge Ram ambulance eastbound on K-4 with lights and sirens on and was struck by a deer about a half mile west of ...

8 years ago
A Salina man has been paralyzed from the waist down after a two car crash last week. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News the collision happened under a yellow traffic light at the intersection of Broadway and Crawford around 5:45am Wednesday morning. Police say 69-year-old Paul C. Powell was driving a 2016 Nissan Versa southbound on ...

8 years ago
The University of Kansas is devoting a residence hall wing to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and their supporters. Student Housing director Diana Robertson says more than 20 students have signed up to live in the "gender inclusive housing" in Lewis Hall for the upcoming school year. Robertson says a small waiting list for the ...

8 years ago
A former Kansas high school coach who was convicted of child sex crimes will serve probation. Todd Kaiser was sentenced in Barton County District Court to three years of probation with an underling sentence of 32 months of confinement. The case involves sexting. Kaiser pleaded no contest to sexual exploitation of child in April after a nude ...

8 years ago
Court records say an investigation into a former Kansas police sergeant who's charged with sex crimes began when his wife reported concerns about him texting teenage girls. The affidavit for Valley Center police Sgt. Thomas Delgado was released Monday. The 49-year-old is facing charges of sexual exploitation of a child, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, official ...