9 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 37-year-old is charged with kidnapping and armed criminal action after prosecutors say he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend from a suburban Kansas City convenience store and held her captive for weeks. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says Michael Snider abducted the woman from outside a Casey's store in Grain Valley on ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A proposal to build a new veterinary laboratory at Kansas State University is one step closer to reality. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university's proposal for a Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with an estimated cost of $43.2 million. The project still must be approved the Kansas Legislature. The ...

9 years ago
Two radio stations raised nearly $60,000 to help in the fight against childhood cancer. Alpha Media radio stations Y 93.7 and Sunny 102.5 on Friday concluded a two-day radiothon to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Listeners from all over Kansas opened up their hearts, and their wallets, to help in the effort. Calls and donations came in ...

9 years ago
A Wichita mathematician who sued to get voting machine tapes in order to audit statistical anomalies in the 2014 election plans to appeal a judge's ruling that prohibits her from getting access to them. Judge Tim Lahey denied on Thursday a motion by Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman to dismiss statistician Beth Clarkson's open records case. The Wichita ...

9 years ago
Kansas lawmakers are discussing two separate proposals for lowering the state's sales tax on groceries. Twelve Kansas senators are sponsoring a proposal to offer voters a constitutional amendment that would reduce the sales tax to zero over three years. One of the sponsors, Democratic Sen. Tom Holland, says voters need to have a voice in how ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are searching for a known male suspect who allegedly held a knife to a young woman's throat. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an argument turned violent in a room at the Airliner Motel, 781 N. Broadway on Tuesday night around 8:15pm. The late-teens victim told police the man attempted to strangle her then threatened her ...

9 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a break-in at a storage building. According to Lt. Mike Ascher, someone damaged a garage door to enter a storage building located in the 1300 block of West North Street on Thursday between 5pm and 6pm. Deputies say a spool of welding wire valued at $500 was stolen. Total loss and damage ...

9 years ago
Police are looking for a vehicle reported stolen from a Salina car rental business. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a 2015 Hyundai Elantra was stolen from the lot at Hertz Rental, 3230 Arnold Ave sometime between late November and December 31, 2015. Staff at Hertz told officers the car was  last accounted for on the ...

9 years ago
Sometime between February 10, 2016 at 9:00PM and 8:00AM February 11, 2016, unknown suspect(s) burglarized two vehicles in the 700 block of N. Palmer Street in Brookville, KS. The vehicles, which had been left unlocked, had guns and ammunition stolen from them. One gun is described as a black Ruger Mark III model 10107, .22 caliber ...

9 years ago
One person was killed Thursday when a vehicle they were driving was hit by  a car fleeing a Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol the two-vehicle fatality crash happened in Topeka after a brief KHP pursuit. The crash occurred at the intersection of 6th Avenue and Gage Boulevard, which is south of ...

9 years ago
SAWATOMIE, Kan. (AP) - The former police chief for an eastern Kansas town has been arrested on charges including witness intimidation. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a release that Robert Butters, former Osawatomie police chief, was arrested Thursday and is being held on $250,000 bond in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jail records, however, show Butter's ...