10 years ago
A 39-year-old registered sex offender from Lenexa has admitted videotaping women in restrooms at Johnson County Community College. Saysavat Bounyadeth on Thursday pleaded guilty in Johnson County District Court to three felony counts of breach of privacy. Bounyadeth previously was convicted for a December 2013 burglary in Olathe in which he stole underwear and lingerie from a ...

10 years ago
  The Salina Police Department is among several around Kansas and Missouri that helped in a prescription drug case that landed 23 people in federal prison. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, Federal prosecutors have wrapped up the prosecution of a former Lenexa, Kan., doctor accused of diverting prescription painkillers to a network of users and ...

10 years ago
Another person on the July list of Salina's Most Wanted has been arrested. The new list of Salina's Most Wanted went online Saturday, and by Thursday seven have been arrested. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, Rickey Roy is the latest person arrested from the list. He was wanted for felony drug crimes. The first weekend of ...

10 years ago
A long-delayed effort to build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower is gaining design approvals to potentially move forward. The project won approval Thursday in a 9-1 vote on final site and building plans at the National Capital Planning Commission. This was the second federal approval after the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved the ...

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The chancellor of the University of Kansas says her administration plans to respond this fall to recommendations from a university sexual assault task force. The Lawrence Journal-World  reports that Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little says her administration plans to respond this fall to the recommendations from the University of Kansas Sexual Assault Task Force. The task force, formed last ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is arrested for driving a stolen rental car from Indiana. Police report an officer on patrol ran the licence plate on a 2015 Nissan Sentra early Thursday morning to discover the vehicle had been reported stolen by Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. Police arrested 29-year-old Larry Martin of Salina for vehicle theft and ...

10 years ago
A man who allegedly tried to kidnap a woman inside the Salina Walmart store last week, is now also accused of raping a convenience store clerk a short time later. A Delphos man is now facing additional charges after Salina Police release more details about an alleged rape at a convenience store. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL ...

10 years ago
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran says the two Army posts in Kansas have been largely spared as troop numbers are reduced nationwide over the next two years. Moran told The Associated Press that Army officials informed him Thursday that Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth together would lose fewer than 700 soldiers over the next two years. The ...

10 years ago
Four of six people accused in the shooting death of a Salina South High School student appeared in Saline County District Court Thursday morning. 22-year-old Macio Palacio, 19-year-old Jerome Forbes,19-year-old Daniel Sims, and 18-year-old Stephen Gentry all appeared before Judge Renee Young for what was scheduled to be a preliminary hearing to decide if there ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Chamber of Commerce says legislators should not pursue a new religious objections law following an executive order from Republican Gov. Sam Brownback protecting clergy and religious groups. The influential business group issued a statement Wednesday saying that Brownback's executive order is a sufficient response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage ...

10 years ago
Kansas is working with neighboring states to promote and market the region to film producers looking for movie locations. The film offices in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska along with Kansas City, Missouri, are collaborating to entice the film industry to the area. Peter Jasso is executive director for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. He said ...