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Newton police warn that a rise in the amount of city graffiti could lead to gang fights over turf. Sgt. Bryan Hall said on Thursday that there have been 57 cases of new graffiti found in the past six months. He says gangs often use the tags to mark their territory. Hall says the increase has caused ...

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Wichita police say they plan to arrest some of the people who beat up a coach at a junior football league practice. Lt. James Espinoza said on Thursday that charges are pending and arrests will be made "in the near future." He says several people involved in the Monday fight have been banned from the league. Police ...

10 years ago
Unseasonably cold air that has brought early snow to some parts of the country has settled into Kansas. The cold air mass contributed to record breaking temperatures in some parts of the state on Thursday, with more possible Friday and Saturday. According to the National Weather Service, record cool high temperatures were set Thursday in Salina, Russell, ...

10 years ago
A southern Kansas woman has been placed on a year of supervised probation for a texting-while-driving crash that left another driver dead. The Pratt Tribune reports that 36-year-old Jennifer Dale, of Preston, must also pay a $1,000 fine under the sentence she received Wednesday. Dale pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of vehicular homicide in the ...

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The latest government forecast on Kansas crop production is painting a far rosier picture than had been anticipated for most fall crops just a month ago. The National Agricultural Statistics Service predicted Thursday that Kansas growers would bring in 578 million bushels of corn this season. That figure is 14 percent above last year's production. Higher yields ...

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The Kansas Supreme Court will hold a hearing next week on a petition by the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate to get his name removed from the November ballot. The court on Thursday scheduled arguments on Democrat Chad Taylor's petition for 9 a.m. Tuesday. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said in a two-page order that the court was ...

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A Salina public art sculpture wins a major award. According to Salina Arts & Humanities, "Dawn's Silver Lining" has received the 2014 Juror's Choice CODAaward for the Public Spaces category. "Dawn's Silver Lining" is the large-scale public art work on South Ninth Street designed by artist Barbara Grygutis. It was installed in the Fall of 2012. The ...

10 years ago
The attorney representing a convicted child molester has urged the Kansas Supreme Court to take a fresh look at the state's criminal offender registry because social media has made the Internet the new town square for public shaming. Attorney Chris Joseph said during oral arguments Thursday that the world has changed dramatically since 2003, when ...

10 years ago
A 2006 Ford F250, owned by Greenfield Contractors of Salina was reported stolen. Police say the vehicle had been parked in the company's lot located at 2775 Arnold, when employees discovered the truck was not there. Staff told officers the keys had not been left inside the vehicle which is valued at $20,000. Police report the truck was ...

10 years ago
Kansas State University is restricting travel of university-sponsored students, faculty and staff to several African countries affected by the Ebola virus. The university said in a letter Wednesday to the Kansas State community that it will deny university-sponsored travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which have been placed on a federal travel alert list. ...

10 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary and theft at Salina Speedway. An employee told deputies he noticed a gate on Wednesday that appeared to be tampered with, and then saw a lock was broken at the race facility at 2841 S. Burma Road. Deputies discovered a door had been forced open on a storage ...