9 years ago
Two counterfeit $100 bills were found at Pizza Hut on New Year's Day. They were picked up in a delivery order, leading police to a suspect whose identity that has not been released yet. $800 in mailboxes were damaged at Heather Ridge Apartments at 2130 Crawford. No mail seems to have been stolen, and no suspects ...

9 years ago
A convenience store in Salina was victim to a crime, leaving them out cold. The Pilot Gas Station at 1944 North Ninth Street reported to police that Saturday night, someone went into the trucker's break room and cut the wires to the thermostat. The estimated damage is estimated at $500. Copyright © Alpha Media, 2015.  All Rights Reserved. ...

9 years ago
A man in the Walmart parking lot received complaints over aggressive panhandling on Saturday. A white male estimated at 5'9 and 145 lbs wearing a puffy silver coat was asking multiple people in the Walmart parking lot for money. When he approached one woman, she gave him a gift card to which he returned to the ...

9 years ago
A woman was arrested on the 1400 block of 11th Street yesterday after an argument with a neighbor caused her to threaten the victim with a knife. Patricia Robbins of Salina entered her neighbor's home by breaking the front door. She broke a flower vase and threatened the victim with a knife. The total damage is valued ...

9 years ago
An employee that got fired at Chuck's Bar at 600 North Santa Fe broke into a locked cooler and stole beer. Rex Vaughn, 24 of Salina, allegedly broke into the cooler at 2:20AM on January 2. He stole an 18-pack of beer, which was recovered by Salina Police Department. Vaughn was arrested and is being charged with ...

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 ...