10 years ago
A Salina Police officer is suspended after being arrested for DUI. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 29-year-old Austin Hardin was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly hit a power pole on South 9th and left the scene. Police say Hardin was driving northbound in a 2006 Dodge Dakota truck when he veered into the median and ...

10 years ago
A scooter rider was hurt in a crash early Monday morning in South Salina. First responders were called at around 7:30 in the morning to the crash, near the intersection of Magnolia and Markley Road. Traffic was being rerouted as officers and EMS worked the scene. The scooter rider was transported by EMS to Salina Regional Health ...

10 years ago
Hutchinson police say a 4-year-old boy has died after being pinned under a flatbed trailer. The accident was reported Sunday afternoon at a home on the city's southeast side. Police say the trailer was not attached to a vehicle and was in the home's front yard. They say the trailer's ramp fell on the boy. The child ...

10 years ago
Two people were killed in a crash near Ellsworth Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a Dodge Durango was headed southwest on K156 Highway. A Chevrolet Impala was headed north on K14 Highway. The Impala was stopped at stop sign, and preceeded across K14 Highway. It crashed into the Durango as the driver of ...

10 years ago
Small communities across Kansas are sparking a revival in movie theaters as a way to bring locals together and provide alternatives to driving long distances to see the latest flick. The Wichita Eagle reports Marci Penner, director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation, estimates there are more than 30 theaters open in small towns across the state. ...

10 years ago
Kansas Democrats say that claims that their party's gubernatorial candidate is pro-school consolidation are false. Gov. Sam Brownback has attacked Democratic challenger Paul Davis on the issue based on remarks made by Davis' appointee to a school efficiency task force. The appointee, former Republican state senator John Vratil, was interviewed in 2011 by The Topeka Capital-Journal ...

10 years ago
Authorities say two people have been killed and three injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Kansas Turnpike west of Topeka. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that a sport utility vehicle driving from Omaha, Nebraska, rolled Saturday night near a highway exit. Turnpike officials said the vehicle was turning too fast while exiting the highway. The victims were ...

10 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University is launching a first of it's kind challenge this week. According to the school, in order to teach the importance of being prepared for the unexpected during National Preparedness Month in September, assistant professor and director of the Emergency Management program Dr. Lonnie Booker has developed an attention-getting, community-wide competition to see who ...

10 years ago
Fifty-two U.S. House members have signed a letter voicing concerns about a proposal to change the map that governs how donated livers are distributed around the country. The letter, dated Friday, was written by Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder, a Republican. It comes in advance of a meeting Tuesday in Chicago to discuss a proposal to redraw ...

10 years ago
An official with a Wichita youth football league says the group does not plan to add extra security for weekend games in the wake of an attack on a coach and gunfire at a practice earlier this week. Greater Wichita Junior Football League athletic director Mickey Lara says he thinks it was an isolated incident. The Wichita ...

10 years ago
Jurors are getting the weekend off before deciding the fate of a Kansas bail bondsman accused of coercing women he bailed out of jail to have sex with him. The Hutchinson News reports that both sides rested Friday in the trial of 66-year-year-old Dwight Jurgens. He's accused of two counts of aggravated human trafficking, four counts ...