11 years ago
Independent U.S. Senate candidate Greg Orman has been endorsed by a group of former moderate Republicans in the Kansas Legislature who are unhappy with the state GOP's conservative leanings. Orman held a Statehouse news conference Wednesday to tout his endorsement by Traditional Republicans for Common Sense. Former state Rep. Jim Yonally, of Overland Park, says the ...

11 years ago
Game wardens with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism were busy over the Labor Day weekend. Kansas game wardens enforce wildlife laws and regulations, patrol the waters of Kansas, investigate boating accidents, and conduct boat safety inspections, BUI checks, safety programs, education classes and other activities. September 1 started the dove season in Kansas, ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Sampler Foundation is planning a new crowd funding site to support projects that help rural communities. A pilot website, called Kanstarter, is scheduled to be up and running later this month. The foundation's director, Marci Penner, says projects allowed on the website will have to be good for the community and supported by several generations. ...

11 years ago
A truck is reported stolen. Police are searching for a 2005 Chevy Silverado that was taken from a driveway in the 500 block of Maple Street sometime between August 8th and August 9th. The 80-year-old owner of the vehicle had been checking with family members to try and locate the truck, and contacted police after realizing the ...

11 years ago
Salina Police arrest a South Dakota man driving a vehicle reported stolen in Oklahoma. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that police received information from a 38-year-old woman in Bartlesville, Oklahoma that an acquaintance of hers was traveling to Salina in a stolen car. Police arrested 35-year-old Eldon Iron Hawk of Wagner, South Dakota, on Tuesday evening ...

11 years ago
A car trailer is rented and not returned to a Salina business. Salina Police are looking for an 18-foot car hauler/trailer that was rented from Construction Rental, 515 N. Broadway, on August 18th and not brought back to the store. Police say the 2013 trailer is black in color and is valued at $2,900. ...

11 years ago
The Salina Business Hall of Fame will soon have two new members. According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, two prominent Salina business persons have been selected to be inducted into the 2014 class of the Salina Business Hall of Fame. They are: Charles Underwood, credited with being the founder of Salina’s milling industry, ...

11 years ago
Rose Hill police say they're investigating three suspended high school athletes who allegedly urinated on another student at a party. Police Chief Bob Sage says that three Rose Hill High School football players and one baseball player were drinking at an off-campus party when the alleged battery occurred. He says three of the students urinated on ...

11 years ago
Hutchinson authorities say two women have been injured in a three-vehicle crash that included an empty school bus. Hutchinson Fire Department officials say the crash happened Tuesday afternoon. They say an SUV collided with a car that pulled in front of it. The collision sent the car flying into a nearby school bus. Both car drivers were ...

11 years ago
State officials are investigating the death of a 4-month-old girl at a foster home in a Wichita suburb. Sedgwick County officials say the girl died last Thursday at the home in Bel Aire. Sheriff Jeff Easter says the girl's 18-year-old mother was sleeping with her on a couch and apparently rolled on top of the child. ...

11 years ago
A Kansas zoo will lose its accreditation to have elephants if its officials can't find a way to upgrade the animals' enclosure. The Sedgwick County Zoological Society on Tuesday asked county commissioners to pay $5.3 million of a proposed $10.5 million elephant barn. Zoo officials say the commissioners have three weeks to consider the funding before ...