10 years ago
A traffic stop leads to a drug related arrest. According to Captain Chris Trocheck, an officer on patrol stopped a driver for a traffic violation near the corner of S. Broadway and Crawford at 1:30am Thursday. Further investigation led to the discovery of 3.1 grams of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle. Police also found a .25 ...

10 years ago
Haysville police say a man was holding a bleeding woman at knife point before an officer shot him to death. Police Chief Jeff Whitfield said in a statement Thursday that officers found 40-year-old Chad Leichhardt holding the woman at a Haysville apartment on Tuesday. One officer shot Leichhardt after he refused commands to drop the knife ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are looking for two suspects who did a home flooring demonstration - while a third person allegedly stole cash from a bedroom. Police report a white male with a scruffy white beard in his 60's or 70's, along with a white male in his late teens knocked on a door in the 2000 block ...

10 years ago
A jailhouse fight will keep a man already serving a life sentence in connection with a Salina murder behind bars a little longer. 26-year-old Joel Heil appeared in Saline County District Court Thursday morning and plead no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct. The charge stems from a fight between Heil and another inmate in ...

10 years ago
Police arrest a Salina man for unlawful sexual contact with a teenage girl. Police were contacted by the Department of Children and Families this week about an incident that allegedly occurred in a home in central Salina on Tuesday evening. Officers arrested 36-year-old Suthep Khongngoen on 1 count of aggravated indecent liberties with a 13-year-old girl. Police say ...

10 years ago
Police in Wichita say a pregnant woman who was injured in a two-vehicle crash delivered her baby before she died at a hospital. Twenty-one-year-old Trevadawn Pauley was one of six people injured in the crash Tuesday night. Pauley was seven months’ pregnant. Police say doctors at Wesley Medical Center delivered the baby girl before Pauley was pronounced ...

10 years ago
Police are searching for whoever stole an 800-pound wok from an Asian cuisine restaurant in Kansas. Wichita Police Lt. James Espinoza says the wok was stolen Tuesday afternoon from the Bamboo Express Asian Cuisine restaurant. He says the large wok was placed outside when a replacement pan was installed in the kitchen. Authorities say the wok "would ...

10 years ago
Police are searching for whoever abandoned a truck that rolled down a hill and into a Topeka home. Topeka Police Lt. Jana Harden says the truck was empty when it hit the house Wednesday evening. She says the truck was involved in a hit-and-run crash earlier in the day. Harden says someone drove the truck up the ...

10 years ago
Attorneys sparring over investigation materials from the 1959 "In Cold Blood" murders in southwest Kansas are headed to court. A motions hearing was scheduled Thursday in Shawnee County District Court to discuss what evidence the attorneys will exchange. At issue are case files kept at the home of a deceased Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who was ...

10 years ago
A Kansas state agency has shuttered a Wichita group home after regulators say they found improperly stored medications, rodent infestations and unlicensed staff members. The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services on Tuesday ordered the immediate closure of the Atishwin Institute. The state also revoked the license for the substance abuse treatment group home. The facility ...

10 years ago
Kansas regulators have filed a complaint against Westar Energy Inc., alleging the utility is charging unjust and unreasonable electric transmission rates. The Kansas Corporation Commission filed the complaint Wednesday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against the state's largest electric utility. The agency is objecting to what it called Westar's unreasonably high return on equity in a ...