9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Parks officials are taking steps to protect a pair of eagles and their babies who are nesting at a lake just east of Topeka. Shawnee County workers - with the help of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism - placed two buoys this week in Lake Shawnee. The goal is ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas regulators have delayed a vote on a Westar Energy proposal to raise its transmission charge for residential customers. The Kansas Corporation Commission on Thursday pushed a final vote until March 31 on the Westar proposal to raise its transmission charge by 31 percent for home customers while cutting some business rates. Commissioners ...

9 years ago
Between 3:00 PM on March 4th and 9:31 AM on March 5th, 2016, force was used to commit a burglary at Loux Home Repair, 515 E. Walnut. A Dewalt 20V drill with bits in a yellow/black bag, Porter-Cable drill & saw with two lights and a 20V battery in a gray/white bag, blue 2.5 gallon air ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a case of possible identity theft. Police Captain Chris Trocheck says that a Salina woman reported that a purchase using her USAA Bank debit card number was made at a Walmart store in Florida Thursday evening. The fraudulent  purchase was made Thursday between 7:50 and 8:15 in the evening. Total loss is $785.         ...

9 years ago
Transgendered students at Kansas public schools and colleges would be required to use restrooms, showers and locker rooms for their sex at birth under two bills introduced in the Legislature. Separate but identical measures have been introduced in the House by its Federal and State Affairs Committee and in the Senate by the Ways and Means ...

9 years ago
Kansas residents will decide this November whether to include the right to hunt, fish and trap wildlife in the state constitution. Kansas would become one of about 20 states that make hunting, fishing and trapping a constitutional right if voters approve the proposed amendment in the Nov. 8 election. The Senate gave final approval to the ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Senate's eight Democrats have sent a letter to President Barack Obama opposing moving terror suspects to Fort Leavenworth from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The letter Thursday to the Democratic president came two days after the Republican-dominated Legislature adopted a resolution decrying Obama's push to close the Guantanamo detention center. The GOP-sponsored resolution goes to Obama. ...

9 years ago
A man accused of firing a shot that killed a Salina teen last spring was back in court Thursday afternoon. Saline County District Court Judge Renee Young ruled on multiple pretrial motions for 22-year-old Macio Palacio Jr., who is scheduled to go on trial May 9th in connection with the shooting death of 17-year-old Allie Saum. After ...

9 years ago
Over the past 30 days a team from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, (CALEA) has been looking at all aspects of the Salina Police Department's policies and practices as part of its re-accreditation process. It is an audit process that has been in place since 1996 according to Salina's Chief of Police Brad ...

9 years ago
Two Salina schools will be honored. According to USD 305, Oakdale Elementary School and Central High School are receiving 2015 Challenge Awards. The awards are based on Kansas Assessment results from 2015 and other qualifying factors, such as ethnicity and socio-economic status. Central High School is being honored as a result of its performance on 11th grade ...

9 years ago
One of five men accused in a case involving the shooting death of a Salina teen last spring was back in court Thursday morning as his trial date approaches. 19-year-old Stephen Gentry is scheduled to be the first person to face trial in connection with the shooting death of 17-year-old Allie Saum. He is scheduled to ...