11 years ago
A half dozen people on the April list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line Saturday. Since then, six have been arrested. Those arrested include Mark Avise, Jeremy Doss, Jeffrey Duncan, Cash Hawkins, Jay Hunt, and Adrian Martinez. They were wanted for crimes that include felony drug crimes, ...

11 years ago
Three classic cars are taken from a Saline County property. Owner Gary Hansen contacted the Saline County Sheriff's Office after he discovered someone had stolen three vehicles from his farm. He told deputies he had lined up the cars outdoors under a hedgerow at his farm in the southeast part of the county. Deputies say a 1939 Plymouth ...

11 years ago
A soldier's night vision goggles are stolen. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, deputies are investigating a theft case after a backpack is removed from a staging area for Kansas Army National Guard training at 5440 S. Englund Road. Authorities say 29-year-old Estevan Decker of Newton, Kansas left his bag containing the goggles with a collection of other ...

11 years ago
Police are asking federal investigators to help determine whether more than a dozen shootings in less than a month along Kansas City-area roads and highways are connected. Three drivers have been wounded by gunfire as they drove along area highways, many in an area called the Grandview Triangle, where three interstate highways intersect. Ten of the 13 ...

11 years ago
The Wichita City Council has reaffirmed its decision to rename Mid-Continent Airport to Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport a day after the city's airport advisory board voted 10-1 against the change. Tuesday's 5-2 council vote was the same as in March, when members first approved the change. It was largely a symbolic vote and cleared ...

11 years ago
An Arizona couple has given Kansas State University $1.5 million toward the expansion of the College of Engineering. The university announced the gift from Tucson residents Alan and Jan Levin on Tuesday. The Levins are natives of Kensington, Kan., and own Century Park Properties LLC in Tucson. The donation will help complete the fourth phase of the ...

11 years ago
Leaders of the top Kansas teachers' union are vowing to continue the fight through November's elections against the Legislature's vote to eliminate tenure. Lawmakers inserted the provision Sunday into a bill that increases state funding for public schools. The measure is now on Gov. Sam Brownback's desk. The Kansas National Education Association said Tuesday that ...

11 years ago
The new director of the Saline County Health Department has been on the job for only two days, and has already discovered a major problem. Bronson Farmer met with Saline County Commissioners Monday afternoon for an update session on the agency. Farmer, who started the new position on Monday, said that he spent the day working with ...

11 years ago
After deliberating for about two hours a jury finds an Abilene man guilty of a Salina murder. Jurors late Tuesday morning found Dane DeWeese guilty of 1st degree murder and guilty of conspiracy in connection with the disappearance and murder of Kristin Tyler. The case began last Spring when Tyler disappeared on April 25th. Her body ...

11 years ago
The final numbers are in, and voters pass the Salina School Bond issue. Saline County Clerk Don Merriman released the final results Tuesday afternoon. YES: 8,779 NO: 5,934 Merriman said there are still 53 provisional ballots left to count. Merriman says that there were 300 envelopes not signed, so those votes were not counted. The $110.7 million bond ...

11 years ago
A Salina man has been arrested after stealing video games from a retail store. Salina Police were called to Kmart (400 S. Broadway) Monday morning for a shoplifting in progress at 11:39 a.m. Clinton Thompson, 25, attempted to flee officers, but was pursued and arrested near a creek behind the store. Capt. Chris Trocheck tells KSAL news that ...