9 years ago
A Salina man is behind bars after police caught him following a chase early Monday morning. Police say that on Monday morning at 7:19 two uniformed officers were investigating a stabbing case and walking across the 200 block of West Harsh Avenue. A white 1992 Honda Accord turned eastbound onto Harsh from 8th Street. The vehicle was ...

9 years ago
Fire officials say seven Hutchinson school buses were damaged in a fire that apparently was started by a discarded cigarette. The fire was reported Saturday night just south of the Durham School Services in Hutchinson. A nearby tree row was on fire when emergency responders arrived. Battalion Chief Rex Albright says the buses, a storage trailer and ...

9 years ago
Fire officials say they are investigating several fires in Lyon County as possible arsons. The Lyon County Sheriff's Office said in a news release it found 14 starting points to a fire Saturday night. The blaze started just north of Interstate 35 and stretched along the Interstate 35 corridor to the Coffey County line. Authorities are looking ...

9 years ago
Police have asked Wichita officials to consider regulating massage businesses in hopes of reducing human trafficking. It is unclear how many massage businesses actually operate in Wichita or the state, because they are unregulated and don't require licensing. But Wichita police say they've had complaints since 2013 of some massage businesses that sell sexual acts and ...

9 years ago
A long-running school finance case is proving costly for the state of Kansas and four school districts. State Republican leaders argue money spent on the case could be used instead in classrooms. But an attorney for the Wichita school district argues the legal fees are small compared with the money on the line for the districts, ...

9 years ago
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) - Grieving residents of a Kansas town parked riding lawnmowers with American flags beside them on some streets and adorned them with "Hesston Hustler Strong" signs in a reference to the lawn equipment brand from the plant where a gunman killed three co-workers. The Excel Industries factory has long been an economic hub ...

9 years ago
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A Lenexa man has admitted he stabbed two men to death during a burglary at their home. Alex Brune pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of first-degree murder in the July 2014 deaths of 47-year-old Brian Baskind and his stepfather, 79-year-old Clifford Preston at the men's home in Lenexa. Brune was scheduled ...

9 years ago
Beginning Monday the Salina Police Department will join other agencies around the Midwest focusing on seat belt violations, specifically around schools. According to the agency, the department will join other law enforcement agencies in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma to stop what has been an epidemic for the past several years. In 2015, 13 teens lost their ...

9 years ago
No one was hurt in a fire that destroyed a vacant mobile home in west Salina Saturday night. Authorities tell KSAL News that first responders were called at around 8:00 to the report  of a mobile home on fire in the 1200 Block of W. Crawford Street. Heavy smoke and flames were visible when the the ...

9 years ago
The National Transportation Safety Board says an airplane that crashed at a Wichita airport in 2014 was in the air for only 26 seconds and 120 feet. The Beechcraft King Air B200 crashed into a FlightSafety building at the Eisenhower National Airport, killing four people. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1ODse9l) the NTSB released its factual report on ...

9 years ago
An Olathe woman will stand trial in the death of her newborn daughter, whose body was found in a trash can. Twenty-year-old Marissa Carol Fields is charged with first-degree felony murder and aggravated abandonment of a child. After a preliminary hearing Friday, Fields' attorney entered not guilty pleas for her. Prosecutors say Fields gave birth at home ...