8 years ago
A Salina couple wakes to discover a hole in the windshield of their car and find a golf club in the front seat. Police say someone shattered the front glass on a 2008 Dodge Charger that was parked in the 1400 block Teakwood sometime between midnight and 5:30am Saturday. Damage is estimated at $1,200.

8 years ago
A Salina man was knocked unconscious outside a bar early Friday morning. 25-year-old Ethan Choitz told police officers he was jumped outside Big Nose Kate's Saloon, 121 N. Santa Fe around 1:40am. Police say Choitz was punched numerous times and was knocked out. He told officers when he awoke on the pavement he saw 3 or 4 ...

8 years ago
No one was injured in an early morning vehicle fire that destroyed a car and burned some grass near a road in northeast Saline County. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that Mariah Davis of Salina noticed her 1992 Toyota Corolla was overheating from a leaking radiator and pulled over in the 7800 block of E. ...

8 years ago
Police find a box of marijuana in a baby's bed and charge the mother of five with endangering her children. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that a concerned neighbor contacted police about a disturbance inside a home at 879 Navaho Ave. on Saturday around 5pm. Police arrested 25-year-old Alexandria Moreno on multiple charges after officers found ...

8 years ago
A group of high school students will an opportunity to start their summer vacation by living the life of a Kansas State Trooper. The Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy in Salina will host the Cadet Law Enforcement Academy in early June. The Cadet Law Enforcement Academy program is hosted by the Patrol, and sponsored by the ...

8 years ago
No one was injured in a weekend incident in which four improvised explosive devices were discovered in an apartment in a small Ottawa County community. Authorities safely removed the pipe bomb type devices from an apartment at the Lee Street Apartments, located at 440 Lee Street in Tescott.  The devices were located inside apartment three. Jeffery DeMars, ...

8 years ago
Restoring state funding for higher education is a structural way to keep college costs down for students, the head of Kansas' governing board of education said after a community college announced plans to develop a degree costing just $15,000. Blake Flanders, the Kansas Board of Regents' president and chief executive, told the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kdWL9r) that ...

8 years ago
A community college has accepted Gov. Sam Brownback's challenge to develop a degree that costs only $15,000. Brownback and Cowley County Community College officials announced Friday that the Arkansas City school will try to develop a program that would lead to a $15,000 degree. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the proposal would require students to complete two years ...

8 years ago
A former worker at a youth center on Kansas' Fort Leavenworth faces sentencing next month after being convicted of sexual misconduct with a 13-year-old girl. A Leavenworth County jury on Friday found 24-year-old Nicholas Clark guilty of two counts each of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated indecent solicitation with a child. Authorities said Clark ...

8 years ago
A Kansas man is accused of fatally shooting a man and wounding a woman in an apartment. KMBC-TV (http://bit.ly/2k7Yqel) reports that Johnson County prosecutors charged 47-year-old Michael Collins Smith of Prairie Village with first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment. Authorities say officers responding to a reported armed disturbance Thursday in Overland Park found 28-year-old Anthony Shuster ...

8 years ago
A federal judge has ordered a Kansas woman to spend two years and 10 months in prison for her role in sex trafficking. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kEfeNl) reports that 23-year-old Tiara Newman also was sentenced Friday to five years of post-prison probation. Newman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Authorities allege she ...