8 years ago
A top three finish at a state competition is propelling a group of students from Salina South High School to a multi-state competition. Over the weekend the Salina South High School Robotics Team competed at Wichita State University in the BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. The farming themed competition, required teams pick tomatoes ...

8 years ago
Authorities say a sport utility vehicle has struck and killed a pedestrian on Interstate 470 in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the man was hit Monday afternoon in the westbound lanes. Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Stephen La Row says the man had been in the same location on the interstate about 30 minutes earlier. At ...

8 years ago
A small computer was stolen from a Salina home while a woman slept. Salina Police are investigating an aggravated burglary after someone entered a home in the 100 block of S. Kansas sometime early Monday between midnight and 8am. Lorene Ramsay told officers someone entered her home through a window and stole her mini iPad valued at ...

8 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says former state legislator Richard Carlson will be staying on as Kansas transportation secretary. Brownback announced Monday that after three months as the Department of Transportation's interim secretary, Carlson has been elevated to secretary. The appointment will require state Senate confirmation after the Legislature convenes in January. The 72-year-old Carlson began serving as interim ...

8 years ago
Fall harvest has made some good progress in Kansas this past week amid dry conditions and warm temperatures. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 87 percent of the state's corn crop has been cut. That is near average compared to a year ago at this time. Kansas farmers have also harvested about 56 percent of ...

8 years ago
The Kansas State Fair recorded its third highest attendance ever this year. General Manager Susan Sankey said 359,808 people visited the 10-day fair, the third highest number in the event's 104-year history. The Hutchinson News reports that 2015 was a record-breaking year for fair attendance with 369,322 visitors, beating the previous record set in 1995 at 361,647. Sankey ...

8 years ago
A Kansas man will stay behind bars until trial for his role in an alleged conspiracy by a militia group to detonate truck bombs at an apartment complex where 120 Somali immigrants live. Curtis Allen waived his detention hearing Monday and entered a not guilty plea, the only plea a federal magistrate judge can accept at ...

8 years ago
Salina, Kan. – Kansas Wesleyan University’s Nursing program was notified this week that its application for voluntary programmatic accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) was not accepted. Kansas Wesleyan began the application process for this new regional programmatic accreditation through CCNE in May 2015. A site-visit team from CCNE visited campus on February ...

8 years ago
An unoccupied home was broken into in Gypsum. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after burglars entered a home in the 700 block of Hawkes in Gypsum sometime between July 2 and October 23 and removed a Maytag washer/dryer valued at $4,000. Also stolen was a 42-inch flat screen TV, gas grill, kids Corvette bed and ...

8 years ago
A former Wal-Mart employee was arrested on theft charges. Salina Police report that 20-year-old Xavier Allen was taken into custody on Friday after an investigation revealed that between September 27 and October 19, he had allegedly taken $1,194.85 in cash from the register while he was working at the store located at 2900 S. 9th. ...

8 years ago
The committee searching for Kansas State University's next president has selected 15 candidates to interview for the position. The Manhattan Mercury reports that 81 people applied for the position. Regent Dennis Mullin, who heads the Kansas Board of Regents' committee, says the number of applicants and the number of qualified candidates were higher than expected. Mullin says ...