10 years ago
Police say an argument between parents and a coach at a junior football league practice in Kansas escalated into a fight involving gunfire. Police say one man complained that his son was not getting enough playing time during Monday evening's practice at Linwood Park in Wichita. Then six men surrounded the coach and started punching ...

10 years ago
In front of a standing room only, lively crowd of approximately 2,500 people, candidates for Kansas Governor and U.S. Senate debated Saturday at the Kansas State Fair on Saturday. Republican Governor Sam Brownback and his Democratic challenger, Paul Davis, laid out their positions on education, taxes, Medicaid expansion and renewable energy during their first ...

10 years ago
A work truck is stolen from a Salina business. Police say a 2005 Ford F350 flatbed truck was stolen from the lot at Fastenal, 330 E. Schilling Road, sometime between Friday afternoon at 2pm and Sunday morning around 11:30am. Staff told officers the truck did not have the keys left inside. The truck has Fastenal company decals ...

10 years ago
Police are investigating after someone removed Stihl brand lawn tools from a shed at a Salina church. Police report someone forced a door open on a storage shed at Saint John's Lutheran Church, 302 S. 7th, sometime between Friday at 5pm and and Monday at 7:30am and stole two trimmers and a leaf blower. Total ...

10 years ago
Two people on the September list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line over the weekend. Since then, two have been arrested. They are Stephanie Hewitt, who was wanted for forgery and criminal use of a financial card, and Stephanie Shuler who was wanted for possession of methamphetamine ...

10 years ago
Police are looking for a suspect who allegedly jumped out of a truck and assaulted a man. The unnamed victim told officers he was standing on the sidewalk on South 9th near Brown Mackie College just before 6pm Monday, when a Chevy pickup approached. A white male then jumped out of the truck's passenger side and began ...

10 years ago
With the ethnicity of the Kansas population constantly changing — it's estimated that 1 in 8 Kansans are Latino or Asian — questions are arising about how diversity will affect the state's future. Kansas State University Salina's first Civic Luncheon Lecture of the fall semester will focus on the topic of immigration with an educational ...

10 years ago
A southwest Kansas county attorney says high school students who texted nude photographs of an underage girl will not be heading to court. Finney County Attorney Susan Richmeier says that she will recommend the students enter a deferral program instead of charging the teenagers. She says about 40 students were involved and that they didn't realize ...

10 years ago
After another hot and breezy day on Tuesday, expect big changes for the rest of the week. According to the National Weather Swrvice, A strong cold front will usher in Canadian air driving temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal through the rest of the work-week. The cold front will also bring with it the ...

10 years ago
Kansas higher education officials have sought an annual assessment of student learning, but a first attempt by schools produced a wide-variety of assessment systems. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Kansas universities used six different assessment systems, while community and technical colleges used eight. State higher education officials want the assessment to determine how much students are learning at ...

10 years ago
Emergency management officials in south-central Kansas say there are no reports of damage from a series of small earthquakes that shook Sumner County. The U.S. Geological Survey says two quakes in the magnitude 3 range were centered southeast of Conway Springs. One earthquake struck just before 8 a.m. Monday, followed by another at 10:23 a.m. KWCH-TV reports ...