8 years ago
An argument inside a moving vehicle takes a turn into a couple of mailboxes. Police arrested 26-year-old Andre Satterfield of Salina on Saturday evening after he had a disagreement with a female acquaintance inside her 2008 Ford Edge. Police say Satterfield reached over and grabbed the wheel of the car - forcing the vehicle to run into ...

8 years ago
A Kansas filmmaker's drone video of the Kansas wheat harvest will premiere next month at the New York City Drone Film Festival. Doug Armknecht's video, "Beauty & Bounty," show the 2016 harvest at his wife's family's farm in Osborne County. The Wichita Eagle reported Monday that his video  is among 32 entries accepted to be shown March ...

8 years ago
A couple comes home Saturday night to discover a burglar sitting on a golf cart inside their garage. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that homeowner Ray Smith called authorities just before midnight after opening his garage door to find 21-year-old Phillip Hamilton sitting on Smith's golf cart. As the couple entered the home they ...

8 years ago
Investigators continue to piece together a shooting that sent a Salina man to the hospital last Thursday and another to jail after shots were fired inside a pickup. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that detectives are today interviewing a woman in McPherson, who was also shot in that truck last week. 18-year-old Madeline Small was ...

8 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is facing a daunting task as drafting begins on the 2018 Farm Bill amid challenges confronting farmers in the President Donald Trump era. He and U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall were in Kansas this week for the first field hearing of the Senate agriculture committee and meetings with constituents about worries over the ...

8 years ago
Nearly 200 storm chasers are paying tribute to the late actor Bill Paxton by spelling out his initials using GPS coordinates on a map depicting the heart of Tornado Alley. The effort coordinated Sunday by Spotter Network spelled out "BP" to honor the leading man in the disaster movie "Twister," which inspired a generation of storm ...

8 years ago
The BTK serial killer's daughter is writing a book about dealing with the emotional trauma of discovering that her father had killed 10 people. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2l02EZS) Kerri Rawson says she hopes the book help people cope with anxiety, post-traumatic stress, betrayal and depression. Rawson says she experienced all those things after her father's ...

8 years ago
Trout fishing suddenly has gotten better at a Kansas lake. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2ldoJQb) reports that workers from Crystal Lake Fisheries of Ava, Missouri, on Saturday released about 7,000 pounds of trout into Lake Shawnee near Topeka. Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Department spokesman Mike McLaughlin said the annual fish release was started by former parks director ...

8 years ago
A Wichita man has been found guilty of human trafficking. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says 25-year-old Daederick Lacy was convicted Thursday of sex trafficking of a minor, sex trafficking of an adult, and one count of interstate transportation of a minor for prostitution. Evidence at his trial indicated that two minor females and one adult female worked ...

8 years ago
Eighteen Kansas counties affected by a severe ice storm in January will receive federal disaster aid. The Kansas Adjutant General's office announced Friday that President Donald Trump has granted Gov. Sam Brownback's request for the disaster declaration. The 18 counties were hit by ice Jan. 13-16. Counties eligible for aid are Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford, Hodgeman, ...

8 years ago
A woman who was taken into custody in connection with a central Kansas shooting that left four people dead has been released from custody. Harvey County authorities say a 42-year-old Newton woman was arrested Thursday. But the sheriff's department said she was released Friday after questioning and investigators don't expect to charge her. Three victims were found ...