10 years ago
Police are investigating after someone damages windows at a Salina business. Police say sometime between October 31 and November 3, someone shot a pellet gun at the Central Care Cancer Center's glass, making two quarter sized chips in two large windows. The business is located at 2337 E. Crawford. Damage is listed at $500.

10 years ago
The Hutchinson Animal Shelter is seeking money for new employees, partly because of problems with inmate volunteers from the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. Director Richard Havens told council members last week that he would like six new employees so the shelter can either stop using the inmate labor or have enough staff to supervise them. Havens says the ...

10 years ago
White men, conservatives and other core Republican voter groups helped Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts win re-election despite spirited opposition, an exit poll of Kansas voters found Tuesday. Here are findings from the survey taken for The Associated Press and television networks: GENDER POLITICS: The only gender gap favored Brownback and Roberts, both of ...

10 years ago
Republican congressman Tim Huelskamp has won re-election in the sprawling 1st District of western and central Kansas despite angering some farmers. Huelskamp defeated Democrat Jim Sherow in Tuesday’s election. The Republican incumbent has become a tea party favorite and won his third term. Sherow is a Kansas State University history professor and a former Manhattan mayor who ...

10 years ago
Two justices will remain on the Kansas Supreme Court despite an effort to vote them off in response to rulings that overturned death sentences for two brothers in connection with four killings in Wichita. Voters opted in Tuesday's election to retain Justices Lee Johnson and Eric Rosen on the seven-member Supreme Court. Johnson and Rosen were part ...

10 years ago
Democratic challenger Paul Davis has conceded the Kansas governor's race to Republican incumbent Sam Brownback. Brownback built a small lead in Tuesday's election with most of the vote counted. The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the race. The governor successfully pushed the GOP-dominated Legislature during his first term to slash personal income taxes to ...

10 years ago
Kansas voters have chosen to keep longtime incumbent Pat Roberts in the U.S. Senate in a hard-fought election that helped Republicans secure control of the chamber. Roberts defeated independent challenger Greg Orman in Tuesday's election, and Republicans beat enough Democrats in other states to gain a Senate majority. Roberts told supporters at an election night party in ...

10 years ago
It took a little longer than expected to count the votes, but after a technical glitch, unofficial final results in the Saline County election were gathered late Tuesday night. A problem with the election results manager program caused about a 3.5 hour delay. Here are the results from Saline County races of interest: U.S. Senate Pat Roberts (Republican) ...

10 years ago
A federal judge has ordered Kansas to allow same-sex couples to marry, but he delayed enforcement of the order until next week to give the state time to appeal. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the state from enforcing its constitutional ban starting at 5 p.m. on Nov. 11, pending the ...

10 years ago
Saline County Election Results Of Interest: Final Results U.S. Senate Pat Roberts (Republican) 6,529 Greg Orman (Independent) 4,769 Randall Batson (Libertarian) 625 U.S. House of Representative 1st District Tim Huelskamp (Republican) 6,969 James Sherow (Democrat) 4,875 Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (Republican) 5,705 Paul Davis (Democrat) 5,539 Keen Umbehr (Libertarian) 729 Kansas State Representative District 69 J.R. Claeys (Republican) 2,421 Gary Swartzendruber (Democrat) 1,580 Saline County Commission District 1 Monte Shadwick (Republican) 1,607 Stephanie Cool (Democrat) 1,237 Fluoride Question - Shall Fluoride Be Taken Out ...

10 years ago
Three people on the November list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line over the weekend. Since then, three have been arrested. They are Michael Turner who was wanted for sex crimes that include rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child, Blake Nicol who was wanted on ...