10 years ago
The Kansas health department has returned Galena's application for a landfill permit because it doesn't meet state requirements. The Joplin Globe reports the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told Galena Mayor Dale Oglesby recently in a letter that the city's landfill application can't be processed because it lacks the signatures needed from county government officials. Oglesby ...

10 years ago
Dodge City police say longstanding domestic issues likely led a man to shoot and kill two people before shooting himself. Police Chief Craig Mellecker says 55-year-old Jesus Ochoa-Morales was shot in a store's parking lot Sunday and died at a hospital. About 10 minutes later, 48-year-old Maria Monreal was abducted at gunpoint from the Wal-Mart where ...

10 years ago
Summer vacation is officially over for Salina USD 305. Teachers headed back to class last week, and students are joining them this week. Tuesday is the first day of classes for grade school students, and orientation day for 6th grade and 9th grade students. On Wednesday, the rest of the middle and high school students ...

10 years ago
Wichita police say a shooting death on the Wichita State University campus was not a random act. Deputy Police Chief Hassan Ramzah says a 23-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were arrested Sunday afternoon in connection with the shooting. The victim, 23-year-old Rayan Ibrahim Baba, was found in a campus parking lot Saturday morning suffering from several ...

10 years ago
A federal judge has voided the Kansas ban on same-sex marriages as unconstitutional in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the issue. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree summarily ruled Monday that the provision in the Kansas constitution that prohibits issuing marriage licenses same-sex couples or recognizing such marriages violates the Fourteenth Amendment to ...

10 years ago
Former tea party-backed candidate Dr. Milton Wolf has confronted Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran at a town hall meeting over the state medical board's past investigation of Wolf's license as Wolf was running for office. Wolf declined to say Monday whether he plans to run in next year's Republican primary against Moran. Wolf is a Leawood radiologist ...

10 years ago
On Friday, August 7, 2015 at approximately 3:39 P.M., officers from the Salina Police Department and medic units from the Salina Fire Department were sent to an address in the 1100 block of N. 10th street in reference to a shooting that just occurred. Upon arrival, they found a female in her 30’s and a ...

10 years ago
Cash and a cell phone was stolen from a car after someone smashed two windows on a 2005 Honda CRV. Salina Police say sometime Friday afternoon between 4pm and 5pm, someone broke two windows on the Honda to gain access into the vehicle that was parked at the YMCA located at 570 YMCA Drive. Police report that ...

10 years ago
A car is stolen from Salina's aquatic center. Police are investigating after someone took a bag containing car keys and a phone that was left in the patio area at Kenwood Cove, 701 Kenwood Park Drive on Friday evening. Police say a blue, 2008 Ford Escape, owned by Taitum Wood of Salina was stolen sometime between 7:30pm ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are searching for a white male suspect who damaged an ATV while trying to steal it. Police are reviewing video from a parking lot camera at the Super 8 Motel at 705 W. Schilling Road. According to Police Sergeant Jim Feldman, on Sunday morning around 8:30am the suspect pulled up alongside a pickup parked at ...

10 years ago
A southwest Nebraska sheriff says a Kansas man was killed when a storm tossed his recreational vehicle. Hitchcock County Sheriff Bryan Leggott says 38-year-old Heath Erbert died when his fifth-wheel RV was picked up and slammed back to the ground in Stratton during Friday night's storm. Jan Sydow, who lived in a neighboring trailer, says Erbert was ...