10 years ago
The U.S. Geological Survey says groundwater levels are declining in an aquifer that serves parts of Oklahoma and seven other states. The USGS has released a report on changes in groundwater levels in the High Plains Aquifer, also known as the Ogallala Aquifer. USGS scientist Virginia McGuire says measurements between 2011 and 2013 represent a large ...

10 years ago
Police are investigating a residential burglary after someone entered a home sometime between November 5th and December 14th in the 200 block of S. 9th and removed multiple items including tools, 50-inch flat screen TV, coins, space heater and bedding. Loss is estimated at $950.   A 36-year-old female contacted police after someone allegedly removed $964 in ...

10 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after windows are smashed on a couple of excavators at a job site. Deputies say someone broke the glass on two heavy equipment excavators that were parked on a job site along East North Street over the weekend. The machines are owned by Nowak Construction of Goddard, Kansas, which is ...

10 years ago
Kansas officials say record cattle prices have led to an increase in cattle theft reports. Authorities say five longhorn cows and a bull, worth at least $10,000, were recently taken from a pasture in southeast Kingman County. A Reno County producer says four 600-pound calves were stolen this month. The Kansas Animal Health Commissioner says that he ...

10 years ago
Wichita State University will receive an $11.5 million donation from Koch Industries and the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation. The university said Tuesday the gift is the largest single-time donation in the school's history. The money will be divided in five ways: $4.5 million to expand and renovate the Charles Koch Arena and the Student Athlete Success ...

10 years ago
A woman falls in front of a vehicle on the street as she runs from her assailant. Police are now looking for a man who choked and threatened a woman with a knife in east Salina Monday night. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a driver stopped his car in the intersection of Eastburough and Crestview after a ...

10 years ago
Police arrest a man accused of stabbing a woman during a robbery in downtown Salina. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that investigators received information on the location of 44-year-old James Anthony Brown Monday night and arrested him at a house located at 154 N. 8th Street around 8pm. Police allege that Brown was armed with a ...

10 years ago
A commission charged with studying efficiencies in Kansas schools considered a proposal that would ban teachers from most collective bargaining. A proposed bill one of several considered Monday by the K-12 Student Performance and Efficiency Commission. It would limit teacher negotiations to only wages, salaries and hours of work, even if the teachers union and Boards ...

10 years ago
Winter weather returns to the area Wednesday night. According to the National Weather Service, mainly light snow is expected across Central Kansas, with a transition to rain and snow across South Central and Southeast Kansas. Snow accumulation will vary from around an inch in Central Kansas to none along the Oklahoma border. For Thursday, flurries and/or light ...

10 years ago
Arkansas City police are investigating a Grinch-like crime in the southwest Kansas town. Police say thieves who hit at least 10 homes during the weekend stole mostly Christmas decorations and broke several windows. Police Captain Mark McCaslin says the thefts were in the northwest part of the city and were likely related. One of the thefts was at ...

10 years ago
Police in south-central Kansas have charged a woman who they say stabbed her 10-year-old son to death in his bedroom. Thirty-three-year-old Lindsey Blansett of Wellington is being held at the Sumner County Jail on $500,000 bond. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her son, Caleb Blansett. Wellington police say the boy had gone ...