9 years ago
Officials have broken ground on Wichita's new multimillion dollar arts center, which is scheduled to open in about two years. About 400 people gathered Wednesday for the center's groundbreaking. Liz Koch, honorary trustee for the center, announced it will be called Mark Arts-the Mary R Koch Arts Center. The current center is known as the Wichita Center ...

9 years ago
Two women are turning an old southern Kansas hospital into an oasis for unwed mothers during and after their pregnancies. Miranda Allen and Brenda Myers paid $1 for the old Kiowa hospital after voters decided to build a new one. They are transforming the facility into what they've named Project Pink House, which will take in ...

9 years ago
A drowsy teenage driver was hurt when he rolled an SUV he was driving multiple times in a crash east of Salina. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 16-year-old Ramses Jimenez was driving a 1997 GMC Jimmy, headed North on Simpson Road. Jimenez fell asleep and the SUV entered the east ditch striking a ditch embankment and ...

9 years ago
For the sixth year in a row, most fireworks in Salina will be legal. Fireworks will go on sale in the City of Salina and in Saline County beginning on Monday. Fireworks can be discharged in Saline County the day they go on sale, Monday, between 8 a.m. and midnight through July 5th. While they will be ...

9 years ago
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) - Authorities are searching for a 27-year-old Great Bend man who's been missing for more than a month. The Hutchinson News reports that police say Charles McHenry III was last seen May 6 getting into a two-door black car in Great Bend. The make and model of the vehicle are unknown. Police are ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Invasive zebra mussels have been found in another Kansas reservoir. The state department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says zebra mussels have been found in Hillsdale Reservoir in Miami County. The department says there's no way to completely rid a lake of zebra mussels, which are usually introduced into lakes after attaching themselves ...

9 years ago
MOORELAND, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says two earthquakes have rattled parts of western and central Oklahoma. The strongest was a 3.7 magnitude temblor that rattled near Mooreland about 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Less than an hour earlier, a 2.5 magnitude quake struck near Perry. A few miles across the border, a 3.1 magnitude hit near ...

9 years ago
RUSSELL, Kan. (AP) - A 59-year-old Russell man has died after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a cow. The Kansas Highway Patrol says James Zordel was riding a motorcycle when he hit the cow Friday night about six miles south of Interstate 70. The patrol says Zordel was not wearing a helmet. ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas is bracing for more contentious legal and political fights over education funding even after legislators approved a narrow, short-term fix to satisfy a court mandate. The Kansas Supreme Court directed lawmakers in a ruling last month to make education funding fairer to poor areas, forcing them to have a special session. But ...

9 years ago
Kansas’ primary elections will be held Tuesday, August 2.  In Saline County, several races will be decided in the primary, as some offices do not have candidates from both parties. To inform the voters of the Saline County area, the Salina League of Women Voters will hold a candidate forum Thursday, July 14, 6:30 p.m. at Kansas ...

9 years ago
A 29-year-old man charged in the death of a Kansas City, Kansas, police detective has made his first court appearance in Kansas. Curtis Ayers, of Tonganoxie, is charged with capital murder in the May 9 death of Det. Brad Lancaster. Ayers is accused of fleeing to Missouri in a car after Lancaster was shot. Kansas City, Missouri, ...