9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a couple of vehicles were stolen. Police are searching for a 1992 Chevy S-10 pickup that has not been returned to its owner. The owner told police a friend borrowed the truck on Monday evening a did not return it. The gray Chevy truck has a Kansas tag: 586 CCD ...

9 years ago
Officials are trying to hammer out a deal to address competing water needs of south-central Kansas irrigators and a national wildlife refuge that's lost considerable water to them. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which operates the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, has been asking Kansas for years to address the fact that hundreds of area farmers ...

9 years ago
Multiple construction tools were stolen from a garage. Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary in the 100 block of W. Jewell that occurred sometime after midnight on Monday and 5:56pm on Thursday. The owner told officers that someone entered the garage and took a hammer drill, impact drill, multiple tool batteries, air impact wrench, air compressor, ...

9 years ago
Two inmates at the Saline County Jail are now facing additional charges after two unrelated incidents this week. According to Lt. Mike Smith with the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a male inmate verbally threatened a corrections officer on Tuesday evening while being served dinner. Smith says the inmate then drenched the officer with a cup of orange ...

9 years ago
A Texas man wanted for indecent liberties with a Salina girl has been booked into the Saline County Jail. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, 26-year-old Jahir Ortiz of Huntsville, was transported from Texas this week to Salina on a warrant request that ties back to the sexual molestation of a girl under the age of ...

9 years ago
Sometime between 8:00 PM on January 22, 2016 and 8:52 AM on January 23, 2016 force was used to commit a burglary at Feldkamp’s Furniture, 1930 S. 9th St. A Silver Ford Econoline E350 Van, 47” Crosley flat screen TV, $175, Hitachi 18v cordless drill with an 18v battery charger, Porter Cable air compressor, three gift ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who spent nearly 16 years in prison for a killing his brother later admitted to testified for a measure that would require law enforcement to record some interrogations. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement groups oppose the measure, which mandates recorded interrogations of suspects arrested for ...

9 years ago
A former southeast Kansas high school coach has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old girl and getting her pregnant. Forty-seven-year-old Larry "Scott" Madden faces lifetime court supervision upon his release under the sentence imposed this week in Cherokee County District Court. The Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/1Qw69uU ) reports ...

9 years ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - A second case of mumps has been reported at Kansas State University. The university said in a release Thursday that both students with confirmed cases of the mumps live off campus. The university says it's working to contact people who may have had close contact with the infected students. The university says it's ...

9 years ago
Executive Directors of both Kansas Democratic and Republican Parties spoke to an overflow crowd at the K-State Polytechnic Salina Campus at Thursday’s public Civic Luncheon Lecture. With Salina Mayor Jon Blanchard moderating, both Kerry Gooch (D) and Clay Barker (R) took turns answering questions. Saline County Republican Chairman Clarke Sanders and Democratic Vice-chair Carol Viar ...

9 years ago
A Kansas Supreme Court ruling on education funding could mean over $1 million in additional funding for Salina USD 305 Schools. The high court struck down a stopgap law for funding the state's public schools, saying it left poor districts $54 million short. The justices ruled Thursday that the Republican-backed law enacted last year doesn't comply ...