8 years ago
Someone is on Santa's naughty list after making off with his jacket and toy bag. The Kansas City Star reports that the theft happened Saturday when longtime Santa actor 62-year-old Gary Senner stopped for coffee before spending the day hearing children's Christmas wishes. While he was inside a convenience store in the Kansas City suburb of ...

8 years ago
A Salina woman was awakened by gunfire early Saturday morning. Police were called to the 600 block of Harold after someone fired at least two gunshots at an occupied home around 1:30am Saturday. The woman did not realize her home had been hit and did not report the incident until around 4pm in the afternoon. Police say two ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was booked into jail on charges of domestic battery after an argument turned violent. Police arrested 23-year-old Pedro Beltran on Saturday after officers met with a woman in her 20's who told them Beltran had beat her in their east Salina home. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that Beltran allegedly held her against ...

8 years ago
No one was hurt when multiple train cars carrying coal derailed in central Kansas over the weekend. Authorities say that the derailment happened Sunday near Dorrance in Russell County. KWCH reports that emergency management in Russell and Ellis Counties say they was not called in response, and a Union Pacific spokeswoman confirmed there were no injuries to ...

8 years ago
Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus in Salina and Kansas-based power company Westar Energy are propelling the electric utility industry forward by innovating inspection and maintenance methodologies with drone technology. With a focus on increasing reliability for customers, improving employee safety and reducing costs, Kansas State Polytechnic's unmanned aircraft systems program and Westar Energy have been collaborating ...

8 years ago
Salina's "Georgetown Santas" are getting ready. The group of five neighbors have become a popular mainstay in Salina in the days leading up to Christmas each year. Each year the Santa suit up on Georgetown Road in East Salina, handing out candy and popcorn and spreading Christmas cheer. The tradition began back in 1998, when Jack Schmiedeler ...

8 years ago
Temperatures fell well below zero around Kansas, including in Wichita, which hit a record low for the date. The temperature in Wichita on Sunday dipped to minus 10, a record for Dec. 18. The National Weather Service said the temperature later inched up to minus 5. Weather service meteorologist Andy Kleinsasser told The Wichita Eagle (http://j.mp/2hfNpGi) the ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was killed in an accident on Interstate 70 Saturday night while he was on foot outside of his disabled SUV. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol,  a 1993 Jeep SUV was unoccupied and disabled in the right lane. The owner of the Jeep, identified as 61-year-old Kelly J. Turner of Salina, was outside ...

8 years ago
Students at the University of Kansas will face at least a 3 percent increase to live on campus next year. University of Kansas students next year will pay $5,910 to live on campus, which is $172, or 3 percent, more than this year. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/2gJjzZN) that adding in about $4,150 for meals means a ...

8 years ago
A judge has scheduled a February preliminary hearing for two men charged with kidnapping and raping a Johnson County deputy. The Kansas City Star reports (http://j.mp/2h9Msj1) that 24-year-old William Luth of Blue Springs, and 21-year-old Brady Newman-Caddell, of Independence, are charged in Johnson County District Court with abducting the woman in October from outside a county ...

8 years ago
Attorneys for a former Missouri city official sentenced to death in Kansas for killing his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmother have asked Kansas' highest court to throw out his conviction. As a Kansas public defender specializing in death-penalty cases, Meryl Carver-Allmond told the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday there's no dispute that ...