9 years ago
A suspect was arrested on New Year's Day in conjunction with three cases reported on New Year's Eve and one incident earlier in the month near First Bank Kansas. Joshua Blake, 18 of Salina, was the driver of a white Nissan truck that was reported by multiple witnesses as the source of shots being fired in ...

9 years ago
A central Kansas farmer is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to anyone responsible for killing and mutilating one of his cows. John Shearer says that he was feeding his cattle on New Year's Day in McPherson County when he found one of the cows dead, its eyes gone. It's murky how the animal was killed. ...

9 years ago
The National Weather Service says its preliminary data shows Kansas had 124 confirmed tornadoes in 2015 - 83 more than in 2014. The Hutchinson News reports (http://bit.ly/1PA2Ftl) the number of tornadoes last year tied for the fourth highest number since 1990. Eric Metzger, a meteorologist in Wichita, Kansas, says moisture from a strong El Nino was a ...

9 years ago
A Topeka, Kansas, couple has been ordered to stand trial on charges that they sexually assaulted a child since 2008. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1O1A0uH) reports that 37-year-old Kenneth Seel and 34-year-old Tiffany Seel are to stand trial on felony counts of rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sodomy, and endangering a child. Kenneth Seel was ordered ...

9 years ago
Lottery officials say there was no grand prize winner in the first Powerball drawing of the year that also offers one of the biggest prizes in the game's history. The jackpot in Saturday's drawing had grown to $334 million, the 12th largest in Powerball history. The lump-sum cash prize for the winner would have been $205 ...

9 years ago
In 2014, the Greater Salina Community Foundation hit a major milestone when its assets topped $150 million dollars.   The Foundation has just announced that it has reached another significant milestone in 2015, the awarding of a total of $50 million in grants and scholarships since its inception in 1999.  Both milestones place GSCF at the ...

9 years ago
The search at a northern Oklahoma lake for a missing country music singer from Arkansas has been suspended for the night. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says it called off the search for 29-year-old Craig Strickland because of darkness. The patrol said it used rescue dogs and boats in the search on the north end of Kaw Lake, ...

9 years ago
Wichita police are investigating after a 19-year-old woman reported being robbed at gunpoint inside her hotel room. The Wichita Eagle reports the robbery was reported early Saturday at a west Wichita hotel. Wichita police Sergeant Joe Kennedy says the victim told police she answered the door to two men who were acquaintances of an acquaintance of hers. ...

9 years ago
A Kansas program that waives state laws and regulations for participating schools will remain its current size in 2016. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports no school districts applied to join the Coalition of Innovative School Districts in 2016. The Legislature created the Coalition of Innovative School Districts in 2013 as a deregulation program meant to remove barriers ...

9 years ago
Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp believes his political fortunes shifted when the U.S. House named a new speaker. He's picked up some clout among fellow Republicans but doesn't plan to tone down the firebrand conservatism that has made him a tea party favorite. But his combative style still irritates enough Republicans back in his 1st District of western ...

9 years ago
A state official says abundant rainfall last year helped reduce the number of water use violators in Kansas. The Hutchinson News reports (http://bit.ly/1PzN9xM) that Kansas Department of Agriculture data show 10 Kansas irrigators were fined in 2015 for tampering with their water meter or falsifying their water use report. About 20 other water users were fined ...