10 years ago
A deal involving land owned by Salina based The Land Institute will insure that the property involved will be a part of the organization's mission of sustainability. According to The Land Institute, two agreements reached with a Colorado foundation promise to bolster work in developing perennial grain crops. Those agreements with the Denver-based Malone Family Land ...

10 years ago
Lottery officials say no jackpot winner was selected in the latest $380 million Powerball drawing. The next drawing will be Wednesday after no one matched Saturday's winning numbers. Sue Dooley is the senior drawing manager for the Multi-State Lottery Association, which oversees Powerball. She says the estimated value of Wednesday's drawing will be $450 million. The huge jackpot ...

10 years ago
A 25-year-old man has died in an all-terrain vehicle crash in southeast Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash happened Saturday morning when a Honda ATV read-ended a Sport Trac ATV less than five miles west of Fort Scott. The Honda flipped, injuring Billy Gale Minor, of the small Bourbon County town of Bronson. Minor was ...

10 years ago
Kansas lawmakers are working to reduce the state's prison population and costs, but parallel legislation to toughen penalties could stymie their efforts. The Kansas Sentencing Commission has submitted bills to the Legislature that would free up 150 beds in state prisons and save $3.6 million. One measure would keep offenders out of prison on their first ...

10 years ago
An enthusiastic crowd gathered Saturday morning to bid on a wide variety of items that included among other things services, romantic getaways, celebrity items and recreation packages. For the 26th year in a row, Child Advocacy and Parenting Services, or CAPS, hosted a celebrity benefit auction. The bidding was fast and furious, with some items selling ...

10 years ago
Kansas voters who re-elected a Republican governor known for aggressive tax cutting are learning that the state won't solve its budget problems without putting its cherished highway system in the cross hairs. Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature this past week worked out plans for closing a $344 million budget deficit by cutting education spending and ...

10 years ago
Effective safe-driving campaigns and increase in suicides have pushed firearm deaths ahead of car crashes as the leading nonmedical cause of deaths in Missouri. The Kansas City Star reports 880 people were killed by guns in Missouri in 2013, the most recent federal data available, while 781 died in car crashes. Safety advocates say some of the ...

10 years ago
The 26th Annual Caps Celebrity Benefit Auction is Saturday. CAPS Interim Executive Director Carmen San Martin tells KSAL News that the action-packed line up includes an autographed Eric Clapton Fender guitar, "It is really, really cool," she said. "The staff has been salivating over it and we had to wrap it up and keep it safe!" The 4-hour ...

10 years ago
From the Saline County Sheriff's Office: Between November 15, 2014, and January 25, 2015, a residence in the 7000 block of Frontier Road, rural Saline County, was burglarized. Items stolen from the residence include: PSE brand compound bow with a 35 pound draw weight Accessories for the bow: sight, stabilizer, rest, quiver, and (10) arrows Hewlett Packard laptop, white in ...

10 years ago
For at the last 15 months, Kansas geologist Rex Buchanan estimates, he's spent 90 percent of his time studying something once relatively rare in the state - earthquakes. He has learned a lot, said the director of the Kansas Geological Survey, whose focus in the past was primarily on water and geologic formations, including just how ...

10 years ago
Salina Police make an arrest and recover a stolen safe after a traffic stop. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an officer on patrol stopped a car driven by 31-year-old Justin Rortina of Salina, at Ohio and Pacific on Thursday night for a broken headlight. The officer recognized Rortina as a suspect in the Ray Avenue Baptist Church ...