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A combine-sharing program touted as the first of its kind in the country aims to give farmers a chance to make some money off expensive equipment that sits idle after harvest is finished. FarmLink announced Wednesday its farmer-to-farmer program, which allows farmers with spring or early summer harvests in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas to rent ...

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Salina Police will be out in force over the Thanksgiving holiday week looking for impaired drivers. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that extra officers will be working around the city from Tuesday evening through Sunday morning. Funding from the Special Traffic Enforcement Program will place three extra officers on patrol city wide on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a house cat is shot by a pellet gun. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Jamie Vigil went to visit a friend Friday in the 1100 block of North 11th and took her male cat with her. She told officers she let the cat out for a bathroom break and a short time ...

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State and McPherson County authorities are investigating the suspicious death of a man whose body was found in a ditch near Galva. The man was identified Tuesday as 39-year-old James E. Croft, who was originally from Portland, Oregon. The sheriff's office said in a news release that it has developed three people of interest in the case ...

10 years ago
The state's aviation office is considering whether to allow qualified seaplanes to use state lakes that are managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A petition is being circulated to gauge interest in opening some of the state's lakes to seaplanes. The petition is the first step in a lengthy process. The ...

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A 19-year-old Wichita man is charged with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after a street race killed another driver. Darbin Matthew Tate made his first appearance Tuesday on charges stemming from a street race last Friday that killed 23-year-old Jordan Farber. Prosecutors say cars driven by Tate and Farber bumped during the chase, causing Farber's ...

10 years ago
A Downs man was killed a crash involving a combine Tuesday evening near Beloit. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 84-year-old Meryl G. Garey from Downs was driving a 1997 Chevy S10 pickup headed east on U.S. 24 Highway. He was attempting to pass a Case-International Combine and a 2009 Ford pickup. During the pass Garey's truck ...

10 years ago
FBI agents executed a search warrant at a Kansas school district's headquarters as part of an ongoing investigation, but no arrests are expected anytime soon. FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said that the bureau executed several search warrants in the Wichita area on Tuesday, including at the Maize Educational Support Center. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Barry ...

10 years ago
A 31-year-old Las Vegas man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing 80 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says the Kansas Highway Patrol found the drugs in Thomas Serrato-Jaimes' car on June 20 after he was stopped on Interstate ...

10 years ago
The Salina USD 305 School Board Tuesday evening at a work session approved project designs for improvements at five schools. According to the district, schematic designs have been approved for Coronado, Cottonwood, Meadowlark Ridge and Oakdale elementary schools as well as Lakewood Middle School. The four elementary buildings will receive new kindergarten rooms, multi-purpose storm shelters ...

10 years ago
Suburban St. Louis gun dealers are reporting a surge in sales, especially among first-time buyers, as fearful residents await a grand jury's decision on whether to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. Steven King of Metro Shooting Supplies says he's sold two to three times more weapons than usual in recent weeks as ...