10 years ago
Officials gathered on the campus of K-State Salina Thursday afternoon to celebrate the opening of a new facility that Dean Verna Fitzsimmons called "a key building to every student on campus". A purple ribbon was cut to celebrate the completion of the new student welcome center. The center is housed inside a building that was built ...

10 years ago
Police are investigating after numerous tools are taken from a Salina storage unit. The owner told officers that someone broke into the space at Salina Mini Storage, 2727 Centennial, sometime over the last year between September 3rd and September 3rd of 2013. Police say an air compressor, wire welder, tire change press, multiple hand tools and other ...

10 years ago
Police arrest a Salina man after a woman is allegedly choked. Officers found 44-year-old Douglas Williams hiding under a mattress in his house on Wednesday. Police say Williams struck a woman in the face and destroyed her cell phone as she held an infant during a disturbance in a north Salina home on Tuesday morning. The woman told ...

10 years ago
A caller tells a scam victim he's Salina's Chief of Police. Authorities are warning the public about a phone scam that cost a Salina man $4,500. Police say a 62-year-old man was contacted on Tuesday by a group of people who said they were from the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department's legal team. The victim ...

10 years ago
Three Salina organizations are receiving funding from the Kansas Attorney General's Office. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today announced that the three organizations have been awarded grants totaling $144,190 for victims’ service programs. The grants awarded will fund the following projects: • Ashby House: $21,500 to provide court ordered supervised visitations and exchanges in Saline, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson ...

10 years ago
A former Salina city building official is facing trial in California, accused of poisoning his wife to death 20-years ago. Paul Curry was hired in March of 2010 to be the City of Salina building official. It came as a shock when he was arrested less than a year later in Salina, in November 2010, ...

10 years ago
State health official say whooping cough cases are increasing across Kansas, with Pottawatomie County particularly hard hit. The state has recorded 405 confirmed cases of the disease so far this year, compared with 172 in all of 2013. In Pottawatomie County 17 confirmed cases have been reported. Last year, the northeast Kansas county had one ...

10 years ago
The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable, retching and vomiting, when his owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital. It was something he ate! X-rays showed a stomach full of "a large quantity of foreign material." Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer — the dog had consumed 43 ...

10 years ago
An investigator on an elite task force that captured the man known as the Unabomber will be the keynote speaker at the Wichita Crime Commission's annual awards banquet. Retired FBI agent Candace Delong was a psychiatric nurse prior to joining the agency and its behavior sciences unit. In 1995 she was one of three agents picked ...

10 years ago
Kansas State University officials say personal information from applicants for its graduate program in agronomy might have been exposed on the Internet. The university said Wednesday that it notified 19 people who applied for the program between 2010 and 2013 about the possible problem, which did not involve outside hackers. Information from 56 other applicants was ...

10 years ago
The Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Kansas had ended his campaign. Democrat Chad Taylor had been running against three-term Republican incumbent Pat Roberts. Taylor sent a letter Wednesday to the Kansas secretary of state, withdrawing from the race. The race also has a viable independent candidate, Olathe businessman Greg Orman. Taylor issued a separate statement ...