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A couple of informational presentations about the proposed Criminal Justice Complex ballot issue are planned. They will take place next week. Both will be on Wednesday, October 22nd. The first will be in the afternoon, at the Salina Senior Center. The presentation by Saline County Sheriff’s Captain Roger Soldan is scheduled for 1:30 pm in the ...

10 years ago
The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking a federal court order to force Kansas to allow same-sex couples to marry as the group challenges the state constitution's ban on gay marriage. The ACLU filed its request Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, only three days after it filed a lawsuit in Wichita and ...

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A Kansas hospital system has identified three physicians as victims of a small plane crash in suburban Chicago. Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka said Monday that the victims of Sunday night's plane crash included two of its doctors. They were neurosurgeon Tausif Rehman and pulmonologist Ali A. Kanchwala. Stormont-Vail also identified the third victim as Kanchwala's wife. She was ...

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Officials at the University of Kansas Hospital say a man being treated in isolation is considered at low to moderate risk of having contracted the Ebola virus. Chief medical officer Dr. Lee Norman says the patient came to the hospital Monday morning with significant weakness and diarrhea. The man also said he had previously had a ...

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A suspect points a knife at a man after allegedly breaking into his pickup. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 31-year-old Cody Lott was arrested on Sunday after he stole a pack of cigarettes and a smart phone from a 2005 Ford Ranger that was parked in front of Dominos Pizza on South 9th. Police say the victim ...

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A man arrested on forgery charges - is tied to a kidnapping case back in September. Police arrested 26-year-old Neil Tinio of Salina on Friday after an officer on patrol recognized him from a recent store surveillance video. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, back on September 24th a man and woman were playing pool inside a home ...

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Small-town discount retailer ALCO Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, but says it plans to stay in business while it reorganizes. The company filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, and said it had $222 million in assets and $162 million in liabilities in July. ALCO ...

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A vehicle that was stolen from a Salina home is found abandoned at the Brookville Cemetery. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office got a call on Saturday about a vehicle that looked out of place - parked in a tree line at the cemetery located on South Brownhill Road. The 2004 Ford Taurus was stolen sometime ...

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Gunshots are fired in a Salina neighborhood Sunday evening. Police officers responded to the report of shots fired in the 1100 block of Johnstown at about 7:40pm. Police say 4 shell casings ejected from a high powered automatic handgun were found on the pavement in front of a house at 1109 Johnstown. Witnesses told officers they saw a ...

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Kansas State University says it will not renew the contract of a professor who conducted controversial research on grassland burning. Research associate Gene Towne says he believes his 26-year career will end Oct. 31 because he suggested in a published article that ranchers could burn grassland at times other than April. For years, the university ...

10 years ago
PALOS HILLS, Ill. (AP) — Three people have died aboard a small plane that crashed on the only vacant lot in a dense Chicago suburb of single-family homes, authorities said Monday. The twin-engine Beechcraft Baron crashed in the Chicago suburb of Palos Hills around 10:40 p.m. Sunday, shortly after takeoff from Chicago Midway Airport for Lawrence, ...